'Away' Star Hilary Swank and Cast Reflect on Astronauts' "Admirable" Sacrifice

Hilary Swank had a difficult time playing Emma Green on the Netflix series Away.The two-time Oscar-winning actress opened up in an Instagram post about her battle with claustrophobia, explaining she had never suffered from it previously but she developed it on set because of the spacesuit she had to wear.“I have never, not once in my life, had a phobia. Until now.

Hilary Swank has revealed that she developed severe claustrophobia while filming the recent Netflix series Away.In Away, Swank plays an astronaut on a long-haul journey into outer space.On Instagram, the Oscar-winning actor explained the toll that the role had taken on her wellbeing, with the time spent inside a spacesuit causing particular distress.“I have never, not once in my life, had a phobia,” she wrote. “Until now.

Not even winning two Oscars can protect Hilary Swank from developing a phobia on set. The 46-year-old actress most recently appeared in the Netflix series "Away," in which she plays an astronaut on a years-long mission to outer space.

“Away” is one of Netflix’s hit new shows but Hilary Swank is opening up about the difficulty of playing Commander Emma Green, on a mission to Mars.

Hilary Swank is opening up about the difficult time she had while playing Emma Green on the Netflix series Away.

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Away star Ray Panthaki has shared his hopes for a second season of the Netflix space series.The actor, who plays second-in-command Ram Arya in the show, explained how the first season felt strangely prescient in terms of grappling with isolation – filmed just before the coronavirus lockdown.“[Ram] suffers from this huge sense of loneliness,” Panthaki told NME. “And when we finished shooting, lockdown happened a few weeks later.

Hilary Swank is suing the board of trustees of the SAG-AFTRA health plan. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the 46-year-old actress revealed that she's taken the legal step because she's «truly exhausted by the way women’s ovarian and cyclical health issues continue to be treated by healthcare insurance companies.»«I have experienced it in my own life, and I continually read about it across social media and in the press,» she wrote.

Hilary Swank is suing the SAG/AFTRA Health Plan after being denied coverage for the treatment of ovarian cysts.

Also Read: 'We Are Being Left Behind': Retired Hollywood Actors Protest Changes to SAG-AFTRA Health PlanIn the lawsuit, Hilary Swank says she has dealt with ovarian cysts and endometriosis since 2008 and had treatment covered under the SAG Health Plan. Following the SAG-AFTRA merger in 2012, Swank was transferred onto the new health plan that continued to cover her treatment until 2015, when she says the trustees pulled her coverage.

, Netflix’s space drama about the first manned mission to Mars. And Wu tells ET that after a great run in China, she’s happy to be back, portraying a modern, Chinese woman in such a positive light.“This script came to me while I was shooting in the mountains playing an Empress from a thousand years ago,” Wu says.

Star Trek) was documented in a for Esquire magazine in 2014, and majorly inspired this series―so much so that the article and show share the same name. Clocking in a whopping 340 days in space, Kelly's flight is the single longest mission of any American astronaut.