The X-Files’ Dana Scully helped inspire this Project Hail Mary character

That made portraying her in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s smash hit adaptation a potential challenge for Sandra Hüller (Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall), who had to decide how much to humanize Stratt, and whether to play her blunt, uncompromising affect as unfeeling, calculated, desperate, or something else entirely. She tells Polygon that Lord and Miller largely left that question in her hands.