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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.

, 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.

, the series starring Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green on the first manned mission to Mars, is streaming on Netflix, showrunner Jessica Goldberg talks to ET about highlights from season 1, how the Obamas influenced the characters and what’s in store for season 2, if the space drama gets renewed.In the series created by Andrew Hinderaker () and executive produced by Jason Katims (), Emma is leading an international crew — Misha Popov​ (Mark Ivanir), Dr.

will take viewers on a harrowing journey to Mars when the series debuts on Netflix this Friday. Before launching into space, star Hilary Swank leads ET on a tour of the set in the video above, taking audiences behind the scenes of the spacecraft that the two-time Oscar winner’s character spends most of her time in. While the compartments — her sleeping pod, the command module — look quite spacious, Swank reveals that simulating life in space put her to the test.

Space dramas normally come in a couple of different flavors. There’s the “Ad Astra” style where the drama overtakes the space aspect of it.

Hilary Swank blasts off on the first mission to Mars in the trailer for new Netflix series Away.

Despite the strange, undeserving box office and awards failure of Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” astronaut movie with Ryan Gosling—a terrific film that should’ve been a solid awards contender—studios don’t seem too scared off by the genre yet. In fact, Gosling is taking another kick at the genre with directors Lord and Miller, AppleTV+ got into the game with their own show “For All Mankind,” and next up, boldly going into the unpredictable field is Netflix.

Hilary Swank and Ray Panthaki are astronauts on the first mission to Mars in an early look at Netflix series Away.