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Cast of The Handmaid’s Tale Talk Season 2 at PaleyFest

Posted on April 16, 2018 | Filed Under: Pop Culture | Tags: Hulu TV Show, PaleyFest, The Handmaid’s Tale | Leave a Comment

Praise be…in just a little over a week, “The Handmaid’s Tale” will return to the small screen for season 2! Last month I attended PaleyFest, held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the cast & producers of the show chatted about what we could expect in the second season.

The Handmaid's Tale Group Photo

Cast and creatives of The Handmaid’s Tale arrive at PaleyFest LA 2018 honoring The Handmaid’s Tale, presented by The Paley Center for Media, at the DOLBY THEATRE on March 18, 2018 in Hollywood, California. © Michael Bulbenko for the Paley Center

Before the cast came out on stage, the audience got to watch a preview of the upcoming season.

Handmaid's Tale Signage

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We discover Alexis Bledel’s character, Ofglen, doing manual labor in what looks like a work camp area. We later learn that this is The Colonies. Although Alexis was not at PaleyFest, Madeline Brewer (who plays Janine) was on-hand to give us the details of what life is like in The Colonies. Says Madeline, “Aesthetically it is really beautiful, like rolling hills & cornfields. Then you put a magnifying glass on it & it’s incredibly sinister & gut-wrenchingly terrible.”

Handmaid's Tale Madeline Brewer

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“The colonies are horrible. They’re an extrapolation of the way they think about women as disposable,” said Bruce Miller (creator/showrunner), adding that Ofglen & Janine learn to “both find ways to live a life there in the same way that people did in concentration camps.”

Bruce also announced some exciting new cast members for season 2. They include:

  • Cherry Jones will play June’s mom. We discover that June is an only child raised by a single mom. You can expect some interesting mother-daughter scenes between the two actresses.
  • Bradley Whitford of “Get Out” & “West Wing” fame is a commander in Gilead. Alexis Bledel’s character will be assigned to his house.
  • Clea DuVall from “Veep” & “American Horror Story” will play Alexis Bledel’s wife in a flashback.

A big theme in season 2 is motherhood. In one of the scenes from the preview, June (Elisabeth Moss’ character) is in a hospital room with the commander’s wife, Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), as a doctor examines June & performs an ultrasound. Now in real life this would be a joyous occasion but since this is “The Handmaid’s Tale” it comes off more ominous & disturbing as the two actresses trade barbs with one another.

Handmaid's Tale Yvonne Strahovski

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Says Warren Littlefield (executive producer) about June, “She has an unborn child & so in this explosive, volatile chess game of season 2, all of her moves are about that unborn child & what the future will be for that unborn child.”

At the end of season 1, we see Samira Wiley’s character Moira flee & cross the border into Canada. In season 2, she reconnects with Luke (played by O-T Fagbenle). While happy to be away from Gilead, she is away from everything that she knows & everything that is familiar. Said O-T, “We are together, but we also have this kind of post-traumatic stress that we are trying to deal with.”

Handmaid's Tale Samira Wiley OT Fagbenle

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Amanda Brugel’s character Rita is a Martha, a cook/housekeeper for Serena Joy and the Commander. She shared with us one of her ways of getting into character, stating “I put rocks in my shoes when I walk [in character as Rita] because I feel in Gilead that she has a different walk.” When asked about her fans Amanda responded, “I’m really big with housewives & I receive letters from them. I feel a responsibility in representing these women that feel that they don’t have a voice. They’re at home, putting forth a lot of work but they’re not getting recognized, not unlike Marthas. A lot of people don’t think that they [housewives] are of value because they don’t have a career. I’m representing a certain kind of woman & I feel a great responsibility to do that & to do it correctly. It’s a blessing to be able to do it & I want to give them a voice.”

Handmaid's Tale Amanda Brugel

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Expanding on that sentiment, Samira Wiley said “We’re in the make-believe business, but at the end of the day, what we’re doing can elicit real change and I’m so proud to be a part of that.”

The second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” premieres on Hulu on April 25.
Visit “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Facebook to get the latest updates!

Disclosure: No monetary compensation was received for this post. I was invited to a media event which helped facilitate this review. All images are my own unless otherwise noted. As always, my opinions are 100% my own.

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