Lioness actress Jill Wagner is sharing new insight into life on set with series creator Taylor Sheridan, including one demanding scene that pushed her well outside her comfort zone.

The Paramount+ thriller, led by Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldana, is now in its third season. Wagner, who portrays Bobby, said the latest chapter has not been especially “physically draining” for her, but described the new episodes as “a bit more cerebral.”

In an interview with People alongside costar Laysla De Oliveira, who plays Cruz, the 47-year-old revealed that Sheridan once asked her to rework a scene using her non-dominant hand — with almost no warning.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Sheridan’s representatives for comment.

“There was one day that Laysla and I were trying to get this entrance into the house,” Wagner recalled. “Cruz and Bobby have to come in and clear the room, and we were having difficulties with some of the angles.”

‘Ten minutes before we roll, he comes in and says, “No, I think you should switch arms. Transition your weapon to your left arm.”’ Wagner recalls. ‘And I was just like, “Hmm … OK. Help me.”’

The actress told the publication that although the task was tough, it turned out to be a success.

‘Ultimately, we worked it out, and it’s probably going to be one of my favorite moments,’ Wagner continued.

De Oliveira also chimed in about working with Sheridan and what it takes.

Backing up Wagner, she agreed that cast members can often leave feeling rather accomplished after getting through a day on set with Sheridan.

‘That’s the coolest thing about working with Taylor. He can change things on the spot,’ De Oliveira added. ‘You have to have your head on a swivel and be able to do that.

‘Once you go through that experience, you really leave the set thinking, “Wow, I can do anything.”’

De Oliveira went on that Sheridan doesn’t amend the script last-minute, but flexibility is required with his direction.

She suggested that getting through such an exercise can help on future jobs too.

‘If you can pick that up, then you go onto another set and think, “Well, this one time I did everything with my left hand even though I’m right-handed.” So it’s a great opportunity for us,’ De Oliveira said.

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Wagner added: ‘He forces you to run into the fire. He really does.’

It comes three years after reports Sheridan, who is also behind the popular show Yellowstone, developed a ‘God complex’ and clashed with Oscar winner Kevin Costner over the direction of his character.

A source with detailed knowledge about the show told DailyMail.com in 2023: ‘Certain people in charge of the production developed a God complex.’

The insider also alleged that Costner was left frustrated at how his concerns over the direction the series was taking were dismissed by Sheridan – saying that the actor, who also serves as an executive producer on Yellowstone – was told to ‘stick to acting’ when he raised questions about the future of the show.

‘Kevin will forever be proud of and grateful for Yellowstone and the cast is like family to him,’ the source said of Costner, who recently nabbed a Golden Globe Award for best actor for his portrayal of John Dutton.

‘He just felt like Yellowstone is headed in a direction that was not in line with their initial vision and he was met with criticism, including that he should just stick to acting.’

Last month it was revealed Sheridan is being sued by Lauren J Salkin, a television writer who has claimed he stole her idea, turning it into his hit show Yellowstone. 

Salkin filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sheridan, 56, in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

In the complaint, Sheridan, his management company Elevate Entertainment, Paramount and NBCUniversal are all named defendants, alongside several others.

Salkin alleges that she presented a pilot, concept, storylines, and pitch deck for a show called Sovereign Nation to Sheridan’s representatives at Elevate Entertainment in late 2016 and early 2017.

Elsewhere in the complaint, obtained and reviewed by the Daily Mail, she describes the show as a ‘dramatic television series centered on tribal governance, casino-driven economic power, and a modern war over land and development.’

Salkin’s lead attorney, Paul B Lackey, said in a statement to the Daily Mail: ‘This is a classic David versus Goliath situation. She spent years putting together the specific and multi-layered framework for a story that has become the biggest streaming success of all time. She has watched the vast commercial success of this story that was stolen from her and decided that enough was enough. We will do everything in our power to get her justice.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Sheridan, Elevate Entertainment, NBCUniversal, and Paramount for comment.

Lioness season three dropped on Paramount+ in August, and the finale hits the streaming platform on September 20. 

The Yankees are getting their captain back at a critical moment.

Aaron Judge, sidelined for more than three months by a right rib stress fracture, is set to return to the Yankees’ lineup Tuesday night in The Bronx against the Rockies, the team announced Monday night. His comeback arrives after a race against the regular-season calendar to get healthy in time for the stretch run.

The back-to-back AL MVP returns to a Yankees team still chasing the Rays, sitting four games out in the division with 19 games remaining. New York also holds just a 2 1/2-game cushion over the Red Sox for the top American League wild-card spot, though the club managed to stay afloat without Judge, going 45-39 during his absence while navigating a wave of additional injuries.

“Best player in the world,” manager Aaron Boone said over the weekend. “I think it would give us a lot of balance, too, to give us that right-handed hitter. On the days we’re facing a righty, where we got all our lefties, to have a right-handed hitter in that two-three hole, I think goes a long way. Not only potentially having his production back in there, but hopefully putting the other guys in a better spot, too.”

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Judge pushed successfully to avoid a rehab assignment before being activated, though the Yankees could still bring him along carefully over the next few days as he completes the final stages of his buildup.

That could mean a day off after his first game, playing five to seven innings in the field and/or DH days involved. He was expected to face live pitching on Monday at Yankee Stadium for the first time in his ramp-up, after going with the Yankees on their West Coast trip and hitting batting practice on the field and high-velocity pitching machines indoors.

Military prosecutors are pressing forward with the case against the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, even though they will not be able to use a crucial confession, as they seek to keep the long-delayed trial on track for 2028.

The federal government has opted not to challenge a recent decision by a military judge excluding statements Khalid Sheikh Mohammed made in 2007. 

As a result, Mohammed’s statements to the FBI will be barred from evidence when the case finally goes before a court.

“An appeal could jeopardize the hard-earned June 5, 2028, trial date,” the prosecution team’s liaison to victims wrote in a Friday letter, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The New York Post. The decision came one week before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Appeals can take years to resolve, an outcome military prosecutors want to avoid given the series of delays that have prolonged the wait for victims’ families to receive justice. Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators — Walid bin Attash, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, and Ammar al-Baluchi — are scheduled to go on trial in June 2028.

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Prosecutors initially planned to use a confession obtained from Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for nearly two decades.

Lt. Col. Michael Schrama set the trial date last month before suppressing the confession. He cited “severe coercion” and noted that Mohammed did not have an opportunity to consult with an attorney.

Mohammed and two of his co-defendants had agreed to a plea deal with the Biden administration in 2024 that would have spared them the death penalty.

The deal was subsequently revoked following public outcry, resulting in further lengthy litigation.

Meanwhile, 9/11 families have asked the Trump administration to declassify documents on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks.

Four children found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in upstate New York had been given substances known to cause drowsiness before they died, according to a troubling toxicology report.

Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon were discovered dead inside a Mechanicville home along with their mother, Sarah Myers, 44, and their grandmother, Amy Steadman, 64.

Investigators now suspect Myers and Steadman poisoned the children and fatally stabbed Gavin multiple times with a knife on June 10, carrying out what authorities believe was a murder-suicide plot shortly before the children were expected to reunite with their father.

The bodies were not discovered until June 23, after a neighbor reported a foul odor and an unusual number of flies coming from the apartment, prompting police to respond.

A toxicology report obtained by WNYT confirmed that kratom and diphenhydramine — the active ingredient in Benadryl — were present in the children’s systems at the time of their deaths.

‘Preliminarily, there is nothing in the toxicology findings that has surprised investigators or is inconsistent with the direction of our investigation,’ Police Chief Bill Rabbitt told WRGB.   

Authorities are expected to release a statement on the toxicology report in the coming days.

Police have previously said they uncovered messages between Myers and Steadman about their plan to medicate the children, messages that were made the same day Myers texted her ex-husband, Brady Harmon, that the children had a stomach bug.

‘Sarah Myers instructed Amy Steadman that the medications should be administered between 10.30am and noon so they could be finished before a scheduled telephone call at 6pm with the children’s father,’ Chief Rabbitt announced last month.

Around the same time, Rabbitt said one of the women, without specifying which, sent the other a sinister message: ‘It’s not working. We need another option.’

Investigators have also discovered that Steadman visited multiple pharmacies in the days leading up to the mass-poisoning event, and internet history recovered by authorities showed ‘searches about medication reactions, the effects of insulin on non-diabetics and the Utah court system,’ according to the chief.

Later searches allegedly included ‘Where is the most fatal place to be stabbed,’ which returned results detailing a specific artery as well as the neck.

Police further uncovered letters, including a handwritten confession signed by Steadman and unsigned notes believed to have been from Myers alleging that she and her children were abused while living in Utah.

Steadman had previously accused Harmon of being abusive in a since-deleted fundraiser for her daughter.

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But Harmon has denied the accusations, calling Myers the ‘culprit’ rather than a ‘victim’ as he claimed that his ex-wife once stabbed him in the face with a medicine dropper during a fight in 2019.

He had been separated from his four children ever since, and accused his ex-wife of keeping the children away from him to maintain a sense of ‘control’ in an interview with the US Sun.

Still, he kept in contact with the children – and had reached an agreement with his ex in which he would have custody from July 1 through September 1.

Harmon then spoke with the children on June 7, hoping to get them excited for their trip to Utah.

Days later, on June 10, he said he received a text from Myers that they were sick. 

‘The kids have gotten a little stomach bug throwing up is it okay to switch your online visit to tomorrow night at 4 pm your time please,’ she wrote.

Harmon responded that he would continue painting instead, adding that he hoped the kids would feel better soon.  

The next day, he asked if the children were feeling better, and a video call went unanswered.

‘I have thought about sharing these final communications for a long time. I am now sharing the messages from May 31 through June 11 because they show what I was being told while I was planning for my children’s summer with me,’ Harmon shared online last month.

‘I sent their flight information. I planned activities based on their interests. I requested their medical records, medications, allergies, doctors’ information, and other documents that were required under the parenting plan. I believed I was preparing to welcome my children home.’

Harmon said he believed the truth about his ex-wife and her mother would have come out if the children had the opportunity to stay with him in Utah for the summer. 

‘My children were not pawns to be sacrificed when control was slipping away. They were four beautiful human beings with personalities, dreams, fears, laughter, and an entire family waiting to love them,’ he wrote. 

A late-night street takeover in South Los Angeles came to an abrupt end early Saturday when a large-scale LAPD operation closed in on the crowd, with dramatic drone video capturing hundreds of people rushing to flee as officers sealed off the area.

Authorities said more than 700 people had gathered for the illegal event near South Figueroa Street and West Alondra Boulevard at about 2 a.m.

This time, however, law enforcement appeared to be waiting.

The Los Angeles Police Department told the California Post that a tactical alert was issued at 3:21 a.m., bringing more than 150 officers into the operation. Police said the crackdown resulted in 69 arrests, 570 citations, 200 vehicle impounds and the recovery of seven firearms.

Video from above showed the tense scene unfolding as officers moved in around the intersection, forcing attendees to weave between vehicles while searching for an escape route.

Tow trucks were also waiting nearby to haul away vehicles caught up in the massive bust.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said the operation, dubbed “Operation Street Sweeper,” was months in the making, per ABC7.

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Investigators used intelligence gathering and drone technology to anticipate the locations of four separate street takeovers, allowing officers to move in before participants could simply scatter and disappear.

“This is not harmless fun. This is criminal behavior,” McDonnell said during a press conference announcing the arrests. “Your children are participating in an active crime scene where they are lawfully subject to immediate arrest and exposed to harm.” 

A resident who lives just steps from the intersection, Maple Patton, told the outlet the chaos sounded like an explosion.

“I’m thinking, ‘Did a bomb go off?!’” Patton said. “Every weekend, they’re taking over, and I’m thinking, ‘We gotta do something to stop this.’”

The operation also involved Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers.

At least one impounded vehicle caught fire during the operation, McDonnell said.

Street takeovers have become an ongoing scourge across Los Angeles County, with authorities warning that the gatherings can fuel dangerous driving, violence and other crimes. Some recent events have also been linked to robberies at nearby businesses.

The Sheriff’s Department has pledged to target not only spectators but organizers and participants through arrests, citations, vehicle impounds and criminal prosecution.

A confrontation that started inside a Jimmy John’s restaurant in St. Louis escalated into gunfire, leaving a 14-year-old girl wounded and an employee of the sandwich shop facing criminal charges, according to police and court records.

The teen was shot in the leg shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday near Vandeventer and Laclede avenues, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement posted on X. She was transported to a local hospital and listed in stable condition.

Court records named the alleged gunman as 27-year-old Adam White. Police said White worked at the Jimmy John’s location where the dispute initially began.

White has been charged with multiple felony offenses, including first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree child endangerment.

In their statement, police said the shooting stemmed from a dispute involving the teenage girl’s mother and “several individuals” associated with the Jimmy John’s in the 3800 block of Laclede.

“A preliminary investigation indicates the shooting followed a disagreement involving the girl’s mother and several individuals associated with the Jimmy John’s in the 3800 block of Laclede. The mother’s connection to the restaurant remains under investigation,” the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said.

According to investigators, the girl’s mother’s boyfriend later arrived at the restaurant with the 14-year-old. The confrontation escalated, and gunfire erupted.

Court documents allege that White got into a verbal argument with a former employee, which continued into the parking lot. 

Police say the former employee, her boyfriend and her juvenile daughter then got into a vehicle.

As the vehicle drove away, White allegedly fired multiple rounds into its rear, striking the teenage girl in the left leg.

“As they drove off, the defendant fired multiple rounds into the rear of the vehicle. Victim 3, the juvenile, was struck by one of the bullets in her left leg,” court documents state.

Investigators said they found ballistic damage to the trunk of the vehicle.

According to court documents, White initially fled the scene but later returned and was taken into custody. After being advised of his Miranda rights, White allegedly admitted firing at the vehicle and told detectives he had left the gun at his home.

A judge ordered White held without bond pending trial.

Jimmy John’s and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to News Media’s requests for comment.