After starring in the biggest film of 2015, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Daisy Ridley hasn’t had any trouble finding work. The British actress has yet another promising project in the pipeline. She is set to star as a very atypical spy in Paramount Pictures’ biopic A Woman of No Importance, Variety reports.
Based on the biography of the same name by Sonia Purnell, the film centers on Virginia Hall, a disabled American heiress who served as a British spy during WWII and later worked for U.S. intelligence agencies. As a woman — and one who’d lost part of her leg in a hunting accident at that — Hall was a long shot to enter her chosen profession. Nonetheless, she managed to overcome a number of obstacles, including rejection, and get the British Special Operations Executive to take her on, leading to a fascinating career.
We’ve seen Ridley in conflict situations before as Rey in The Force Awakens. In A Woman of No Importance, she’ll get to take on more subtle, delicate missions. The project sounds like an intriguing one and will add variety to her resume.
Not surprisingly, Ridley has been busy after her breakout Star Wars role. Her growing list of upcoming films includes The Lost Wife, Kolma, Ophelia, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, and more. She is currently shooting Murder on the Orient Express.
With A Woman of No Importance, Ridley will be reunited with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, the production company that is also producing the fantasy thriller Kolma. At this point, we don’t know whom she’ll be sharing the screen with, but we look forward to new developments.
A release date for A Woman of No Importance has not yet been announced.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.