Golshifteh Farahani with her family in France

Simon Kinberg, the longtime producer of the now-disbanded X-Men franchise, was well aware of her work when looking to assemble an international cast for the Apple TV+ drama Invasion. The show felt almost like providence, as Farahani views all her past roles. She was approached out of the blue for a prominent role, and when she read the script, she says she immediately felt like it was a story on par with the quality of film. "It was so powerful, so strong," she says.