For the event, Bronstein, 45, dazzled in a back sweater with sheer sleeves and dark jeans as she and Byrne chatted side-by-side. Meanwhile, Alia Shawkat made heads turn on the red carpet at the ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...

This could be her chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works well at the beginning of Atropia; the actress is clearly having fun playing an aspiring star ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came to California in the hopes of becoming a famous Hollywood actress. Instead, she wound up in “The Box,” playing an Atropian DVD seller ...

Hailey Gates, Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner stopped by the L.A. Times Studios @ Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve to talk about their film, “Atropia.” Mark E.

Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of Fayruz (an excellent Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who rotates between roles like Iraqi street ...

My father worked on a steamboat,” Paul Reubens tells Matt Wolf, director of the new two-part HBO documentary series, Pee-wee as Himself. He, of course, was not. Reubens was born in Peekskill ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Better known for his broad smile and silly voices, Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens becomes rawly emotional in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” which premiered ...

Logline: When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. Welcome to ...