Latest news with #Yosemite National Park
South China Morning Post
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Ezra Franky, who plays Lucy Cook in Netflix's Untamed? The indigenous singer-songwriter, actress and filmmaker hails from Vancouver – and she just released her first album, Acoustish
If you've just finished watching Netflix's latest drama murder mystery series, Untamed, and you're wondering who the actress who plays the Jane Doe is, you're not alone. The memorable newcomer is Canadian singer-songwriter Ezra Franky. Untamed – which also stars Eric Bana and Lily Santiago – premiered on Netflix last Thursday, with ScreenRant calling it 'one of a handful of perfect shows to binge-watch in just one weekend'. Ezra Franky has caught audiences' attention with her performance in Netflix's Untamed. Photo: @ Advertisement The series centres on Eric Bana's character, Kyle Turner, a National Park Service agent investigating the brutal death of a Jane Doe in Yosemite National Park – spoiler ahead. Later in the six-part series we discover the Jane Doe's identity to be that of Lucy Cook, a young woman who went missing in the park in 2012. Here's everything to know about Untamed's Jane Doe, Ezra Franky. She's a singer-songwriter Ezra Franky playing The Portside pub in Vancouver in June. Photo: @ Ezra Franky – also sometimes credited as Ezra Sulin – is an indigenous actress and musician from Vancouver, Canada. The songstress performs everywhere from dive bars and record stores to in the street, per her Spotify profile, where she has just 125 followers and 176 monthly listeners at the time of writing. Franky released her first two singles, 'Kanagawa' and 'Curly Boys', in 2024. Her first album, Acoustish, came out just this month on all streaming platforms. She landed small roles before Untamed Ezra Franky posting snaps from her time on Netflix's Untamed. Photo: @ The Canadian actress made her on-screen debut in the 2022 short Going Back to Meet the World, directed by Santi Henderson. She landed her first leading role in the 2024 sci-fi short Waifu 3000, in which she plays an AI robot girlfriend.
South China Morning Post
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Lily Santiago, who plays Naya Vasquez on Untamed? The daughter of director Ruben Santiago-Hudson grew up in the theatre and earned her breakout role as Veronica Castillo in La Brea
The success of the Netflix drama murder mystery series Untamed has fans speculating about a second season, and one of the show's leads, Lily Santiago, 29, says she's equally excited at the possibility. Lily Santiago says she is 'overwhelmed by the immense support' for Untamed. Photo: @lily_santiago/Instagram 'I am waiting for the phone call. I'm like, 'Find me on the horse on the mountain. I'm ready to go,'' Santiago told Us Weekly last week. Advertisement The show, likened to Paramount's hit show Yellowstone , takes place in Yosemite National Park, where a National Park Service agent (Eric Bana) is investigating a young woman's brutal death. Lily Santiago plays a National Park Service ranger in Untamed. Photo: @lily_santiago/Instagram The role will surely propel Santiago's fame to new heights. The actress – whose breakout role was as Veronica Castillo in NBC's La Brea in 2021 – plays rookie park ranger Naya Vasquez on Untamed, accompanying Bana's character on the case. But what do we know about Lily Santiago? Read on to find out. Her father is an award-winning actor and director Lily Santiago and her family – her father is award-winning actor, playwright and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Photo: @lily_santiago/Instagram Lily Santiago was born in April 1996 to Jeannie Brittan and award-winning playwright, actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Sullivan's Crossing' Dethroned In Netflix's Top 10 List By A Great New Mystery Show
Untamed While Netflix's licensed series Sullivan's Crossing returned to #1 this week after being unseated by wrestling earlier, now it's lost the top spot again to a new show that has debuted at #1, and may stay there a while. That show is Untamed, a new murder mystery starring Hulk veteran Eric Bana. Here's the synopsis: My favorite thing I've seen is the official logline on Wikipedia being 'A body is discovered in Yosemite National Park.' Well, that's one way to leave things a mystery! I am a little surprised that this is not based on a book, but rather created by Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith. You might recognize Mark L. Smith's name from creating and writing the recent American Primeval series on Netflix, which did very well on the service. He also wrote, Twisters apparently. Also Martyrs? The super messed up 2015 horror movie that I love? Wow, pretty cool. In addition to Bana, who hasn't really been in many high profile projects for a number of years now, the show stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Rosemarie DeWitt (Smile 2, Percy Jackson) and a cool addition, Wilson Bethel, currently doing a great turn reprising his role as Bullseye in Daredevil: Born Again. Is he the killer? I feel like he's the killer. Sorry man, I guess I'm stereotyping. Top 10 Untamed is a six episode miniseries, so it is not looking for viewership to land it a season 2. But if this is yet another hit for Mark L. Smith (and now Elle Smith, who I presume is his wife), that bodes well for his future prospects on Netflix between American Primeval and now this. Untamed is reviewing great, a certified fresh 83% ciritc score and an 89% audience score. So, Sullivan's Crossing? Big success on Netflix, season 3 is already done and has aired on the CW, and should be on Netflix next month, I believe. Season 4 is already greenlit. Expect to see a lot more of this series in the future, and it airs yearly without long gaps in between seasons. In between Untamed and Sullivan's Crossing on the list is the new True Crime series, Amy Bradley is Missing, about a 23-year-old girl who vanishes from a cruise back in 1988. It's three 40-50 minute episodes, but spoiler alert, this is not a solved case, so you might want to expect that going in. I am curious to see how big of a hit Untamed managed to be, as it seems like it's going to do quite well. Good for Mark L. Smith and Eric Bana. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Untamed': Eric Bana needed the confidence to be 'quite rude' in Netflix thriller
In another show that showcases British Columbia's breathtaking landscape, Eric Bana stars in the new Netflix series Untamed, a dark thriller centred around a murder investigation in the wilderness of Yosemite National Park. Also starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Lily Santiago and Sam Neill, Bana plays an Investigative Services Branch agent of the National Parks Service, Kyle Turner, who's trying to catch a murderer. But for Kyle, his past ends up playing a bigger role in his investigation than he anticipated. As each of the six episodes unfold, more secrets around Kyle's life, and the murder case, are revealed. For Bana, a core element of playing Kyle was allowing himself to be "quite rude" as the character. "Early on, especially in the first episode or two episodes, it's just having the confidence to actually be quite rude," Bana said. "He's going to be quite bristly and quite a grisly character until we really get to know him more." "So I really just immersed myself into the writing and just kind of committed to the gruffness that he has, especially initially with Lily's character, and knowing that eventually there's a softness there that will play out." 'Beautifully written' relationships While there are a lot of twists and turns in Untamed, a highlight is absolutely the relationship Kyle has with his ex-wife Jill Bodwin, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. This isn't your typical tension where one ex-partner moves on and gets remarried, Jill and Kyle suffered an incredibly traumatic experience together before their divorce, which has created this lasting link between them. "I was thrilled when Rosemarie agreed to play Jill. I thought those scenes were really beautifully written," Bana told Yahoo Canada. "Obviously, they're sharing something, which gets revealed to the audience at some stages, which really affects their dynamic, but ... I hadn't really seen that kind of relationship before on screen. And so it was a real thrill to read that and to think that there was something different in the way that you'd be able to play an ex-husband and an ex-wife." Kyle isn't investigating this murder alone, he's joined by Naya Vasquez, played by Lily Santiago, a cop who just moved from Los Angeles with her four-year-old son. Bana stressed that establishing the nuances in Lyle and Naya's relationship was critical for the show. "We were really careful with the casting of that, we wanted that to be, not equals, because he's so much more senior to her, but that they would become equals in terms of the way that they try and go about solving this crime," Bana said. "But there had be this kind of paternal quality in both directions." "I feel like in some ways, she's almost kind of mothering him. ... So the casting of that was really important and Lily's ability to come in and just kind of go toe-to-toe with with Kyle was really wonderful." B.C. landscape was 'hugely important' Bana, who's also an executive producer on the show, stressed that filming in B.C. was a crucial component of making this show right. "I'd spent time in your beautiful part of the world in winters, but not in summer," Bana told Yahoo Canada. "So to get a chance to set the show there cinematically, and to get the scope and everything, was just incredible." "It was a hugely important element in the show. We felt like the character of Yosemite National Park, and the role that nature plays, is one of the characters in the show. So we were thrilled to film there."
