In a few days, Rebecca Ferguson will be seen alongside an eclectic cast in The Magic Faraway Tree, an adaptation of Enid Blyton’s fantasy novels for children. It’s a departure for the Swedish actor, whose 2026 slate is dominated by sci-fi projects aimed at adult audiences. She began the year with the poorly received “screen-life” movie Mercy and followed it up with the third season of her beloved Apple TV show Silo. Later this year, Ferguson will reprise her role as Lady Jessica in Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated Dune: Part Three. Thanks to roles in major franchises, Ferguson’s star rose over the years following her breakout performance in the period drama series The White Queen. Now, one of her earliest hits is streaming in the United States on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.
The movie in question turned a decade old this year, having been released theatrically in 2016. It was based on a bestselling thriller novel, and was likely fast-tracked after the smashing success of David Fincher’s Gone Girl a couple of years earlier. Ferguson played a pivotal supporting role in the movie, which was headlined by Emily Blunt. It also featured Luke Evans, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Allison Janney, and others. The film wasn’t very well received, but it did stupendously well at the box office. It grossed more than $170 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million — much less than Gone Girl’s $370 million-plus gross, but over three times its reported budget.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Watch Rebecca Ferguson’s Psychological Thriller on Netflix Before It’s Too Late
We’re talking, of course, about The Girl on the Train. Combining the mystery elements of Gone Girl with the Hitchcockian thrills of Rear Window, the movie is now sitting at a 44% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Emily Blunt’s outstanding performance isn’t enough to keep The Girl on the Train from sliding sluggishly into exploitative melodrama.” Like Ferguson, Blunt has also had an extraordinary year so far. She appeared in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, and then headlined Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which grossed almost $250 million globally. You can watch The Girl on the Train on Netflix until August 31. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
