{"id":31935,"date":"2025-10-18T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31935"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:33:13","slug":"the-astronaut-exclusive-interview-with-actress-kate-mara-and-writer-director-jess-varley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31935","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Astronaut&#8221; : Exclusive Interview with Actress Kate Mara and Writer\/Director Jess Varley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\"><strong>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosok<\/strong>i grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31937\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Astronaut-poster.png\" alt=\"The Astronaut\" width=\"640\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Astronaut-poster.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Astronaut-poster-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Astronaut<\/strong> : After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA&#8217;s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : Jess Varley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Brad Fuller, Eric B. Fleischman, Chris Abernathy, Cameron Fuller<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Jess Varley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : Vertical<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : The Wonder Company, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Fifth Season, Bee-Hive Productions, Fuller Media<\/p>\n<p><strong> Genre<\/strong> : Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery &amp; Thriller<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Oct 17, 2025, Limited<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> : 1h 30m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you liked the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"cF3gdVOT6gQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Astronaut | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cF3gdVOT6gQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[28646,13131,28647,13516,28648,6635,9179,26465,28645,25518],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Astronaut&quot; : Exclusive Interview with Actress Kate Mara and Writer\/Director Jess Varley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Astronaut : When an astronaut crash-lands back to Earth, a General places her in quarantine for rehabilitation and testing. 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