{"id":570873,"date":"2026-03-28T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:00:07","slug":"alison-brie-was-excited-to-play-evil-lyn-in-masters-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570873\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Brie Was “Excited” To Play Evil-Lyn In ‘Masters of the Universe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Alison Brie<\/a> fans are still mourning Zoya the Destroya, the Masters of the Universe<\/a> star is enjoying her latest taste of onscreen evil.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlaying supervillain Evil-Lyn in the Travis Knight-helmed live-action feature adaptation, which premieres June 5 in theaters, the 2x Golden Globe nominee recently expressed that she \u201cwas really excited to get to play a supervillain\u201d in the Amazon MGM Studios movie.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI watched a bunch of the old cartoon, and she really is like a classic femme fatale character, but with a sense of humor,\u201d she told USA Today<\/a>. \u201cJust unlike anything I\u2019ve ever really done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith her breakout roles as Trudy Campbell on Mad Men and Annie Edison on Community, bringing a cartoon super vixen to life was a fun departure. \u201cA lot of the work that I\u2019ve done, everything is about reality,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrie said \u201cthe whole point\u201d of the latest Masters of the Universe \u201cis that everybody is larger than life \u2212 some people physically, this character more just in her evilness. It was so fun to work on, and the cast is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that she appreciated the \u201cexpanse into this new world\u201d after filming intimate indies like last year\u2019s Together, in which she co-starred with husband Dave Franco.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrie\u2019s Evil-Lyn portrayal comes after the character was originally voiced by Linda Gary in the 1983-\u201985 cartoon, based on the 1982 Mattel toys, with Meg Foster originating the role\u2019s live-action portrayal in Masters of the Universe (1987). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chris Buttler-penned movie (from a first draft by David Callaham and Aaron & Adam Nee) also stars Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Camila Mendes as Teela, Jared Leto as Skeletor, Idris Elba as Duncan\/Man-at-Arms, Sam C. Wilson as Trap Jaw, Hafthor Bjornsson as Goat Man, Kojo Attah as Tri-Klops, J\u00f3hannes Haukur J\u00f3hannesson as Malcolm\/Fisto and Morena Baccarin as The Sorceress.<\/p>\n

\n\tMasters of the Universe follows 10-year old Prince Adam, who crashed to Earth in a spaceship and was separated from his magical Power Sword\u2014the only link to his home on Eternia. After tracking it down almost two decades later, Prince Adam is whisked back across space to defend his home planet against the evil forces of Skeletor. But to defeat such a powerful villain, Prince Adam will first need to uncover the mysteries of his past and become He-Man, the most powerful man in the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Alison Brie fans are still mourning Zoya the Destroya, the Masters of the Universe star is enjoying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17944,64,63,134,63590,344],"class_list":["post-570873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alison-brie","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-masters-of-the-universe","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}