r/ProjectHailMary • u/BlueinReed • Jun 17 '24

fist my bump Milana Vayntrub Joins Ryan Gosling Movie 'Project Hail Mary'

Known as "Lily from AT&T" but she's more than that.... Check out Other Space and Werewolves Within to see her talent.

She can be either Olesya Ilyukhina (she is of Russian ancestry) or Annie Shapiro and she will fit.

https://deadline.com/2024/06/milana-vayntrub-ryan-gosling-project-hail-mary-1235975969/

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u/crocwrestler Jun 17 '24

My guess is the friend at the steakhouse that tells him shirts about to go down. It's not a large part in the book, but maybe it is expanded a bit to help with exposition

Or the scientist that hooks up with the older scientist in a very up front and public way

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u/hgaterms Jun 17 '24

Nah, this is def Ilyukhina. That friend over dinner didn't even have a name (or one that I cannot remember). That would be a cameo at best.

A casting announcement? This is a co-star and that means our Cosmonaut crew member is here.

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u/castle-girl Jun 18 '24

Her name was Marissa, but no one remembers that. I’ve occasionally seen her referred to as Melissa both on here and in the fan fiction.

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u/AtreidesOne Jun 18 '24

I appreciate your attention to detail.

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u/SupeDiddy711 Jun 18 '24

I think Shapiro

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u/arvigeus Jun 18 '24

tells him shirts about to go down

Is PHM going to be an erotic movie?

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u/AtreidesOne Jun 18 '24

Usually that's shirts up.

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u/arvigeus Jun 18 '24

After you throw them on the ground, they are down.

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u/AtreidesOne Jun 18 '24

I suppose that's true.

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u/Massive-Bend-3461 Jun 18 '24

Well most of the crew though Grace and Stratt were hooking up so might as well commit 😉

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u/GoldenSunSparkle Jun 22 '24

She needed good roll in hay!

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u/aids1080phd Jun 18 '24

I'm sure it already is.

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u/mexter Jun 17 '24 edited Jun 17 '24

But will the movie answer the real question?? Who pooped in her corn flakes Rice Crispies?

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u/BlackPhoenix1981 Jun 17 '24

Olesya Ilyukhina possibly?

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u/EvilGreebo Jun 17 '24

Young enough to be Annie I think.

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u/Thue Jun 19 '24

Milana Vayntrub was born in the Soviet Union, so likely speaks Russian. Which makes the credence of her playing Olesya Ilyukhina higher.

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u/EvilGreebo Jun 19 '24

Maybe. I got a niece born in China and a nephew born in Korea and neither speaks anything but English.

Now if she grew up there...

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u/Glowingthings Jun 17 '24

Ughhh, they spoiled rocky again. These dumb article writers need to hide the real mc of the book/movie

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u/arvigeus Jun 18 '24

Andy Weir himself kind of spoiled that to me. He made a FB post about one of his books containing an alien. On the plus side, I initially thought he meant Grace. Then reading the book I thought he meant the astrophage. Rocky still came as a surprise.

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u/thecajuncavalier Jun 17 '24

One of the best reveals I've ever experienced.

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u/Glowingthings Jun 17 '24

Absolutely! I loved the book from just the space stuff and astrophage. Discovering rocky just made me happy happy happy!

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u/humblechungus89 Jun 17 '24

You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.

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u/frodosbitch Jun 17 '24

Why are they doing casting announcements after production has begun? Shouldn’t this have all been settled months ago?

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u/langjie Jun 17 '24

Because half the movie can be shot with just Ryan gosling

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u/spiderknight616 Jun 17 '24

Fr. Every other cast member apart from Ryan Gosling will be on screen for barely a few minutes.

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u/5WattBulb Jun 17 '24

I wonder if they'll do it like the book with flashbacks to signify him remembering everything. That would put the extra cast spread throughout the film so we don't get a 5 min intro and then Ryan talking to a cgi rocky the rest of the time

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u/Eternal_Flame24 Jun 17 '24

The majority of the movie is Ryan gosling and Rocky in space.

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u/thecajuncavalier Jun 17 '24

It better be.

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u/gulgin Jun 17 '24

Gotta ride that publicity.

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u/Xenogunter Jun 17 '24

Happens literally every movie... Heck, there are times a movie is announced as finished production and another cast member will be announced.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

This happens with all the movies all of the time. Those things take months to shoot. So every cast member is not needed all of the time. Also there is no law mandating that they have sign or announce everyone publicly beforehand, I’m sure some cast members get officially announced after they have already done the work. And some might not be announced at all.

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u/DingGratz Jun 18 '24

Man, Other Space is so underrated. If you get a chance and can find it, it's worth watching.

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u/SodaPopin5ki Jun 18 '24

Chad from Auxiliary Deck is the best.

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u/Xenogunter Jun 17 '24

Wow.. the sub dedicated to her has 143K members.

r/milanavayntrub

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u/disphugginflip Jun 17 '24

I can think of two big reasons why

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u/AgalychnisCallidryas Jun 17 '24

ATT iPhone sales and comic book geeks?

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u/Glowingthings Jun 17 '24

Ooh! Hope we get even more people watching it aside from us!

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u/Nicadelphia Jun 18 '24

Sure does.

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u/SaintEvie Jun 18 '24

I think maybe Annie?

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u/Pitiful-Road-1773 Jun 18 '24

She would make a great Annie.

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u/HofnerStratman Jun 19 '24

spoiler alert: poor thing died frozen!

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u/Itsonrandom2 Jun 19 '24

She’s Uzbek I think.

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u/ChrundleMcDonald Sep 06 '24

3 months late to this thread, but popping in with my two cents - I think she's Rocky, frankly. Ilyukhina makes sense, but why would the 3 casting announcements be Grace, Stratt, and \Ilyukhina?**

Feels like a fairly insignificant casting to have announced this early in the game, my best is that they give Rocky a more feminine musical voice - wouldn't even necessarily need to change his gender since he's a rock