Nora Arnezeder Dishes On Her Voyage To The Colony, Looks Back On Army Of The Dead, And More

Acclaimed actor Nora Arnezeder has had quite an eventful summer, kicking off in late May with the monster reception to Zack Snyder’s zombie heist extravaganza “Army of the Dead,” which premiered to 72 million Netflix households in its first four weeks of release. That meant a lot of exposure for star Dave Bautista and the actors who played the crew infiltrating a zombie-infested Las Vegas. Among them was Arnezeder, who played Lilly, aka “The Coyote,” a gun-toting ass-kicker who guided the group through the treacherous landscape to retrieve $200 million from an underground casino.

Now, nearly three months after the smashing debut of “Army of the Dead,” Arnezeder is traversing another future apocalyptic landscape in director Tim Fehlbaum’s sci-fi thriller “The Colony.” Debuting in theaters, on digital, and video on demand on Friday, August 27, “The Colony” finds Earth in shambles after wars, pandemics, and climate change devastated the planet. Many of Earth’s inhabitants evacuated Earth decades before for a distant planet called Kepler-209, only to find that the change in atmosphere prevented the ability to procreate.

In a bid to save humankind’s future, astronauts return to Earth from their distant refuge, with Blake (Arnezeder) left as the only survivor after an attack by the planet’s scavengers following her crew’s crash landing. With Earth mostly submerged in water and the state of the planet looking bleak, Blake must find a way to reconnect with a crucial survivor who stayed behind years before to take on forces of evil in a bid to save the future.

In an exclusive interview with Looper, Arnezeder discussed the important themes of “The Colony,” reminisced about her experiences on “Army of the Dead,” and gave a preview of her next project, “The Offer” — a streaming series about the making of the Oscar-winning crime drama “The Godfather.”

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