Kate Yablunovsky says Russians do blush, actually

"With Ilya, a lot of that 'Russianness' comes from restraint rather than excess."

Kate Yablunovsky is a Canadian casting director who has worked on award-winning films like Pieces of a Woman and Splitsville—2025’s funniest movie, in this publication’s correct opinion. Lately, though, you may have seen her name popping up in The New York Times or on Late Night with Seth Meyers for her work as Connor Storrie’s dialect coach on Heated R…