{"id":590997,"date":"2026-07-17T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:23:11","slug":"rowan-blanchard-millicent-hailes-teaming-on-dark-comedy-the-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/590997\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Blanchard, Millicent Hailes Teaming On Dark Comedy &#8216;The Drill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rowan-blanchard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rowan-blanchard\" data-tag=\"rowan-blanchard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rowan Blanchard<\/a>, one of the stars of Hulu\u2019s\u00a0Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u00a0spin-off\/sequel series\u00a0The Testaments, has signed on to star in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-drill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-drill\" data-tag=\"the-drill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Drill<\/a>, a dark comedy from director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/millicent-hailes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_millicent-hailes\" data-tag=\"millicent-hailes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Millicent Hailes<\/a> (Perfect) that begins shooting in Texas next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten by Keatyn Lee,\u00a0The Drill\u00a0centers around what happens when an active shooter lockdown traps a high school drill team inside their gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers on the project include Vince Jolivette (Spring Breakers,\u00a0The Disaster Artist), Tyler Payne (Perfect,\u00a0Speed the Plow), Jiarui Guo (The Brutalist,\u00a0Family Movie), and Douglass Riggs (Perfect,\u00a0Speed the Plow). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn\u00a0The Testaments, led by\u00a0One Battle After Another\u2018s Chase Infiniti, which premiered in April and has already been renewed for a second season, Blanchard plays Shunammite, a young woman raised within the elite sphere of the near-future theocratic dictatorship known as Gilead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeasoned for a young actor \u2014 with 15 years of screen experience under her belt while still in her early 20s \u2014 Blanchard was previously seen starring opposite Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs in TNT\u2019s\u00a0Snowpiercer. Additional credits include Hulu\u2019s\u00a0Crush, Peacock\u2019s\u00a0Poker Face, Ava DuVernay\u2019s\u00a0A Wrinkle in Time, and a recurring role on ABC\u2019s\u00a0The Goldbergs. She is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHailes is a queer English director coming off of her directorial debut\u00a0Perfect, an indie drama starring Julia Fox and Ashley Moore, which premiered at this year\u2019s SXSW Film Festival. Otherwise best known for her work on music videos for the likes of Lil Yachty and Adam Lambert, she is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Rowan Blanchard, one of the stars of Hulu\u2019s\u00a0Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u00a0spin-off\/sequel series\u00a0The Testaments, has signed on to star in\u00a0The Drill,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,250490,327,219440,250491],"class_list":["post-590997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-millicent-hailes","tag-movies","tag-rowan-blanchard","tag-the-drill"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116937189374561507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}