From writer-director Hailey Benton Gates, it follows a group of performers in a town designed as a warfare simulation to prepare U.S. soldiers “To play an Iraqi struggling actress is right up my alley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shawkat said that she was “incredibly lucky” to be cast in the series and it was her mom, who has “amazing taste,” who first read ...

When the film "Atropia" starts, it seems like a standard war movie set in Iraq, circa 2007. But pretty soon, you learn it's a comedy, and it's not Iraq at all. It takes place closer to Burbank than ...

Alia Shawkat is going to war — sort of — in her timely new comedy. Atropia, from writer-director Hailey Benton Gates, stars Shawkat, 36, as Fayruz, an actress in the titular nation — except it’s not a ...

Alia Shawkat took time to make peace with her Arrested Development past. Shawkat, 36, opened up on the Dec. 22 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, hosted by Josh Horowitz about her long career.