{"id":508138,"date":"2022-11-09T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elisabeth-moss-on-june-serena-cliffhanger-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:50:00","slug":"elisabeth-moss-on-june-serena-cliffhanger-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elisabeth-moss-on-june-serena-cliffhanger-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elisabeth Moss on June-Serena Cliffhanger \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4ea6883f40b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4ea6883f40b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elisabeth-moss-on-june-serena-cliffhanger-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Elisabeth_Moss_on_June-Serena_Cliffhanger_%E2%80%93_The_Hollywood_Reporter\" >Elisabeth Moss on June-Serena Cliffhanger \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Elisabeth_Moss_on_June-Serena_Cliffhanger_%E2%80%93_The_Hollywood_Reporter\"><\/span>Elisabeth Moss on June-Serena Cliffhanger \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>[This story contains major spoilers from the season five finale of <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, \u201cSafe.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After beginning its current season with the smirk seen \u2019round the globe, <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> ended with another telling expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The fifth season of Hulu\u2019s dystopian <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> began by pitting June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) against Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski). At the end of the two-episode premiere, Serena had brought June\u2019s Gilead-captive daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), into view during a global broadcast of the funeral for her late husband, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) \u2014 and shot the camera a knowing smirk intended for June. Thousands of miles away in Canada, June received the message loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But the world of <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/em>moves quickly and, by the pivotal seventh episode, June was faced with the impossible choice of helping Serena deliver her newborn baby or letting her die when the pair were stranded together in No Man\u2019s Land, the\u00a0Gilead-Canada border region. \u201cI don\u2019t care that you\u2019re sorry,\u201d said June, rejecting Serena\u2019s post-labor apology and speaking on behalf of all handmaids to the woman who helped create Gilead\u2019s patriarchal society. \u201cWe mattered. We were\u2026 we are people. We have lives. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m gonna save yours, Serena, because this isn\u2019t Gilead, and I am not you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    June\u2019s decision to save Serena did not come without consequence for the former Mrs. Waterford, who became Canada\u2019s version of a handmaid upon returning to the home of the Wheelers (Genevieve Angelson and Lucas Neff), as the pair have adopted a Gilead lifestyle. In the penultimate episode, Serena went on the run with her baby and was largely absent from the finale until the final, course-altering scene of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The finale, titled \u201cSafe\u201d (written by creator\/showrunner Bruce Miller and directed by Moss), put June and Luke (O.T. Fagbenle) on the run again, this time after Luke murdered a man in self-defense for attacking June with his car. Amid rising anti-refugee sentiment in Toronto, June and Luke flee their home with baby Nichole, rather than wait for what would no doubt be an unfair punishment. American agent Mark Tuello (Sam Jaeger) sets them up on a train for Gilead refugees that is headed West, but Luke turns himself in at the station so June and Nichole can slip aboard unnoticed. The heartbreaking self-sacrifice leaves June with a broken arm, scared baby and unknown future as she boards the train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s when it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens. While June tries to calm Nichole, they hear another crying baby, and Serena and her son appear at the back of the train car. The moment of recognition swells with emotion to end the season, as the women react to the happenstance. \u201cDo you have a diaper?\u201d asks Serena in a friendly tone, as June\u2019s range of facial expressions lands on a smirk \u2014 the same look Serena had given her to start the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI wanted to do the same smile on June to have a full-circle moment,\u201d Moss tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>in a chat about the finale, which will usher in the final season when the Emmy-winning series returns. \u201cIt\u2019s actually a pretty positive ending for the show and the season, which we don\u2019t usually do. It\u2019s a cliffhanger\u2026 But there\u2019s something positive about it. Of course, of all the people that would be on the train is this person who is her other half, the other half of this experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Speaking to <em>THR<\/em>, the star, director and executive producer reveals that even she was surprised to read the final scene, digs into how she played June\u2019s reaction, hints at what\u2019s in store for the final season and confirms her involvement in the <em>Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> sequel series, Hulu\u2019s forthcoming <em>The Testaments <\/em>adaptation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>June had the opportunity to seek vengeance on Serena and kill her earlier this season. But during their post-labor scenes in episode seven, June revealed she didn\u2019t <em>want<\/em> to kill Serena. How did their experience in that barn forever change their relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    June has come so far this season. From episode one, where she\u2019s trying to be forgiven for killing Fred, and episode two, where she\u2019s trying to be a better person and be a good wife and a good mother, to the end of episode two where she villainizes Serena again. Then she gets to a place in episode seven where she kind of figures it out. What she says in the episode \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m not going to be you. I\u2019m not going to do what you did, and I\u2019m not going to be one of you\u201d \u2014 is really transformative, and I think she\u2019s realizing that in the moment. I don\u2019t think she knows when she goes into that barn exactly what she\u2019s going to do. In the moment, she realizes she has a choice to be a better person, and she has a choice to not be like them. And she makes the choice. As far as her and Serena\u2019s relationship, it changes. Because it moves to a new place where I\u2019m not sure Serena has the same power over her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>We\u2019ve spoken about if there could be hope for June, given the trauma and violence she\u2019s lived through and never processed. Do you think June saving Serena shows that June is and wants to be a good person?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think she absolutely is a good person. And I think that, for a while there, when she was living in Gilead and then coming out of Gilead, violence was a way of surviving. Now she\u2019s figuring out other ways to survive, and she\u2019s figuring out that it doesn\u2019t have to be violent. As far as Serena, letting go of that hate is a big deal. Like she says in episode eight to Serena, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they\u2019re friends. But when you hate somebody, you give them so much power over you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>That entire season journey set them up for this final moment. The show spent a lot of time with June and Serena in episodes seven and eight, before they diverged as the plot picked up for everyone. I actually didn\u2019t see this final moment coming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Good! That was one of our biggest concerns when we were cutting the episode. When we were doing the final two or three scenes, and especially the last scene, one of the biggest concerns was making sure not to tip our hat too soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I was too focused on June\u2019s goodbye with Luke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    We distracted you! That\u2019s supposed to be the focus in the episode, where you think the end of her story is that she and Luke get separated again and Luke gets arrested. And then you\u2019re like, \u201cWhy are you back on the train? What\u2019s happening? She\u2019s all alone!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1296px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_RM_00037RT-copy.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"The Handmaids Tale Safe 510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_RM_00037RT-copy.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_RM_00037RT-copy.jpg?resize=125,70 125w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_RM_00037RT-copy.jpg?resize=681,383 681w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_RM_00037RT-copy.jpg?resize=450,253 450w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke (O-T Fagbenle) waiting for the train in the finale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Russ Martin\/Hulu<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>And then I was <em>excited<\/em> June and Serena had each other on the train, which speaks to the character development on this show. How aware of this final moment were you both when making episode seven?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Well, that ending wasn\u2019t known to anyone when we made seven, so that\u2019s the answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Not even to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Not even to the writers, I think! We hadn\u2019t gotten there yet. It might have been a blip on the radar, but no one knew the end of the scene. In answer to your question, you have to keep moving these characters forward, and that\u2019s a conscious thing for me as an executive producer, for our writers and cast. We don\u2019t want to keep playing the same things; we want to move these characters forward. So I love that ending because, first of all, it\u2019s actually a pretty positive ending for the show and the season, which we don\u2019t usually do. It\u2019s a cliffhanger, of course; you have to have that cliffhanger and drive everyone insane about what\u2019s going to happen next. (<em>Laughs.<\/em>) But there\u2019s something positive about it. Of course, of all the people that would be on the train is this person who is her other half, the other half of this experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Do you remember when it became to clear that Serena would also be on the train?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Well, that came from Bruce Miller. I certainly did not write that! I remember it was a final twist that he came up with. There were other things in the script that changed, but that was something that was in the script \u2014 that Serena was going to be on the train. There were other things that sort of changed around it to make that moment even more impactful, and it was definitely one of those moments where I was reading the script, or just the outline, saying, \u201cOh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So, you didn\u2019t see it coming, either!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    No! And I should hope so. Because I\u2019m the first fan that\u2019s reading it, and so I should hope it surprises me; it has to surprise me, in a good way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>There is a lot of emotion across both of your faces when you see each other. If you can speak first as actor and then as this episode\u2019s director, what did you want to accomplish with the scene, and what did you want to land on in the ending shot?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s a good question. I\u2019m going to answer as both actor and director, because they really are one in the same for me. I\u2019m the biggest fan of the show; I love the show. So when I do a moment like that, I do it almost like a fan in the sense that I do what I would want to watch. I know this is going to be a huge twist and a very surprising moment, and so I approach it from that place. I also wanted to make sure we didn\u2019t fully answer any questions about how they feel about seeing each other, because you want to leave it open-ended; you want it to be a cliffhanger. We want to reveal how they feel about that moment when we come back. So you want to leave it in a place where you\u2019re not necessarily ending the moment; where you\u2019re just kind of presenting it, but not finishing it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The other thing I wanted to do that wasn\u2019t necessarily in the script, but that I did as actor and director, and that Yvonne fully embraced, was this idea that Serena is kind of offering this olive branch with this line about, \u201cDo you have a diaper?\u201d She\u2019s almost making a joke because her baby is obviously a different size from June\u2019s baby, so she knows the diapers aren\u2019t going to fit. She\u2019s offering it as this kind of olive branch, and what I wanted to do in response to that was to duplicate the smile that Serena gives June at the end of episode two. When Serena\u2019s looking down from the screen at June and she smiles, I wanted to do the same smile on June to have a full-circle moment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1296px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_00920RT-copy.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"The Handmaids Tale Safe 510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_00920RT-copy.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_00920RT-copy.jpg?resize=125,70 125w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_00920RT-copy.jpg?resize=681,383 681w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_00920RT-copy.jpg?resize=450,253 450w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and baby Noah on the train for Gilead refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Sophie Giraud\/Hulu<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Which now makes me thinks June might punch Serena in the face to open season six?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Exactly. That\u2019s the thing, I really wanted to leave it up in the air. We didn\u2019t want them to talk or say too much, or to reveal too much about how they are both feeling, but especially about how June is feeling. I think Serena is happy to see June, because she\u2019s all alone and wants to be June\u2019s friend. But as far as June goes, I really wanted to leave it open-ended so that you don\u2019t know. When we come back, is she going to punch her in the face? Or, is she going to give her a diaper?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Your song choice to end the moment was Billie Eilish\u2019s \u201cbury a friend.\u201d Was that a quick choice or did you agonize over it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I went through several choices. That\u2019s a song that I\u2019ve loved since it came out; I listened to it a lot while making the show, so it\u2019s always been in the back of my mind to use at some point. I think our post-production supervisor brought up another Billie Eilish song that reminded me of \u201cbury a friend.\u201d And I as soon as I saw it, I knew that was it. It was a really tricky track to find because there\u2019s a ton of pressure on that cue since it\u2019s the end of the season. And I wanted something that gave the audience a little moment to breathe. It\u2019s such a moment they are experiencing when June and Serena are looking at each other; those last 15 minutes of the episode are so emotional, and I wanted to give the audience a little bit of a smile and a wink. I was texting Bruce [Miller] after I picked the song, reciting the lyrics to him saying it could not be more perfect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>What\u2019s June\u2019s plan once she gets on this train? She\u2019s just been separated from Luke; before she sees Serena, is she confident she can do this or does she feel out of her depth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    They\u2019re supposed to go to Vancouver and from there they get a boat to Hawaii. I think she thinks she has to do this for Nichole. She has a baby and the baby is crying, and she picks up the baby and sort of weaves this tale about the adventure they\u2019re going on. And I think she does this very mom thing, which is that she puts herself and her own feelings aside, and is trying to be positive for Nichole. But I think she is worried about Luke, obviously, and very worried about what\u2019s going to happen to him. And now she\u2019s come to a place at the end of the season, as she says on the phone call with Luke, where she\u2019s realized: \u201cI don\u2019t want to do this alone anymore. I don\u2019t want to be a lone crusader, I want to do this with you. We can\u2019t do this without you.\u201d And of course, that\u2019s the moment he\u2019s taken away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1296px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01148RT-copy.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"The Handmaids Tale Safe 510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01148RT-copy.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01148RT-copy.jpg?resize=125,70 125w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01148RT-copy.jpg?resize=681,383 681w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01148RT-copy.jpg?resize=450,253 450w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Nick (Max Minghella) confronts Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) over the attack on June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Sophie Giraud\/Hulu<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>In that moment, it felt like June was picking Luke once and for all by asking him to never stop fighting for her and for their family. At the same time and unbeknownst to June, Nick (Max Minghella) is also blowing up his life for her. How are we meant to interpret where June\u2019s heart is?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think June\u2019s heart is wherever is best for her children. And when she kind of says goodbye to Nick in episode nine, I don\u2019t think that means she doesn\u2019t love him. But she is recognizing that this is not the best thing to do for her family, and it\u2019s not the best thing to do for his. And they have to make a hard choice. It\u2019s not necessarily the choice that either of them wants. So in the finale, she\u2019s still in that place where she\u2019s choosing her family. She\u2019s choosing Luke and her family. But she doesn\u2019t know, of course, that Nick is blowing up his life for her on the other side. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Do you think she has any regrets about rejecting Commander Lawrence\u2019s (Bradley Whitford) New Bethlehem offer at this point, or is there no going back?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s a tough one. I think with this world we\u2019ve created, everything is changing all the time and so I don\u2019t even think she\u2019s thinking about New Bethlehem right now; I think she\u2019s just thinking about what she\u2019s going to do with Nichole. I don\u2019t think she knows what her options are, except for trying to get her daughter to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>There weren\u2019t many wins for the good guys this season. But there was hope in Hannah knowing who she is and having June\u2019s rebellious spirit. Now, everyone, from Janine (Madeline Brewer) to Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) to Luke and Nick, is fired up and wants to fight. What hope can viewers cling to heading into the final season, in terms of June and everyone she\u2019s fighting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think the tide is turning. And it\u2019s turning for a lot of our characters. There\u2019s clarity happening. There\u2019s clarity that\u2019s happening with Nick, with Janine, with Lydia and with Luke in making the decision to do something rather than not do something and to sacrifice himself for his family. Luke is trying to make amends for all of the times he feels like he didn\u2019t do the right thing and didn\u2019t do something when he should have.<strong> <\/strong>The tide is turning for all these characters, and it\u2019s going to be interesting to see who chooses good and who chooses evil. I feel like everyone is at a point where we\u2019re not quite sure which direction they\u2019re going to go in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>I think Serena is leaning toward good. She seems on board with June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think so, too. But at the same time, we\u2019ve been fooled by Serena before. June has believed that Serena was going to be a good person and then has had her heart broken by her. So, you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You and Bruce Miller have said you are marching toward a series ending you\u2019ve envisioned for a while. Why does it feel right to end the show with next season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Because this season was so much about June trying on different hats and trying to figure out: \u201cAm I the villain? Am I the victim? Am I a murderer? Am I a mother? Who am I? Who is the enemy? Fred\u2019s gone; is Serena the enemy? Yes. Wait, maybe she\u2019s not \u2014 am I the enemy?\u201d She\u2019s spent this season trying to figure out who she is and who she\u2019s going to be the rest of her life, and it\u2019s kind of the perfect lead-up to a final season where, without spoiling anything, it\u2019s time for June to figure out who she is going to be for the rest of her life and where the real fight is, and what she has to do to win the real fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You\u2019ve said you know where you want to end up, but how you get there is always surprising. What surprised you this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think when June says to Serena, \u201cWe\u2019re not friends.\u201d That\u2019s a very complex statement, to say to somebody, basically, \u201cI don\u2019t hate you anymore, but we\u2019re not friends.\u201d I think that\u2019s very interesting and there\u2019s more to be explored there. So that was something for me that was a surprise and I spent some time trying to figure out, \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1296px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01168RT-copy.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"The Handmaids Tale Safe 510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01168RT-copy.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01168RT-copy.jpg?resize=125,70 125w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01168RT-copy.jpg?resize=681,383 681w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/THT_510_SG_01168RT-copy.jpg?resize=450,253 450w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Janine (Madeline Brewer) is muzzled and taken away by Gilead officers for rebelling in the Lawrence house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Sophie Giraud\/Hulu<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Janine also says a version of that to Naomi Putnam (Ever Carradine) when she rejects returning to handmaid life. Do you see a parallel with June and Janine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That\u2019s an incredible observation and a link that I don\u2019t think I even made. That\u2019s very astute and absolutely right, she does say that to Naomi, that\u2019s so interesting. Janine is now the new June. The protege is all grown up now! She is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>We\u2019ve been waiting for Janine to fully come into herself under June\u2019s guidance. How does Janine\u2019s ending (she\u2019s taken away to somewhere unknown for disobeying Gilead law) highlight how far June has come?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It was interesting working with Maddie [Brewer] on the finale, because we really wanted to push Janine to a new place. The way that Maddie plays her, Janine is very introverted. She looks down all the time, and averts her eyes and never really looks at anyone\u2019s face. She has a lot of physical characteristics the way that Maddie plays her, and I thought she did such a phenomenal job of transforming her character that she has played for five years into this new place. She was standing up tall and straight. And I kept encouraging her to not look down and to look Lydia and Naomi in the eyes. It was a new thing for her and so thrilling to watch. She did a phenomenal job with starting to become another June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Janine seems calm when taken away; she tells Aunt Lydia that it\u2019s OK. Is she assuming June\u2019s bravery, or is she giving up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think it\u2019s her being brave in the face of fear. June is scared. But she was brave in the face of the fear, and Janine is brave for the other woman in her van. She sees that the other woman in the van is crying, and she knows that she has to be brave and calm for her. June found her strength and her bravery having to be that for other people, not for herself. She had to be brave and she had to be strong for the other women, and I think that\u2019s what Janine is finding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You directed three episodes this season and acted in nearly every shot. Your co-stars and showrunner have said the shift behind the camera seemed seamless. Was it a challenge or was it a welcome challenge, and how did it change your relationship with the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s kind of all the things. It\u2019s definitely a challenge. It\u2019s certainly not easy. But I love the challenge, and the challenge makes me really happy. The challenge is where I find the joy. I know the show so well and I really live and breathe it many, many months out of the year, so as I\u2019ve taken on more and more over the years, especially with seasons four and five, it\u2019s been seamless in that sense. I know all the characters, the cast, all the players, the crew; I\u2019m very involved in everything. I love helping everybody, I love talking to the actors about their characters; even if I\u2019m not directing. I love talking to the directors who are coming in and helping them. It\u2019s truly so much fun for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Is there something you\u2019re most proud to have pulled off this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    There are two things. We did our two biggest scenes this year: the funeral in episode two and the train station in the finale. When we did the funeral, that was the most amount of people, cameras, equipment, cars \u2014 the most amount of everything we\u2019ve ever had, until the finale train scene. The reason I\u2019m proud of them, though, is that they were done during the pandemic and that was another extraordinary layer of challenge because you\u2019re trying to keep 500 people safe. Just the pure amount of work and physical coordination that goes into a scene like that is absolutely mind-blowing. I saw the tent world that was up for when we did the train scene, where they keep all of the background, and it\u2019s massive: the catering department, having to make sure all of these people get fed; the ADs, making sure all of these people get their breaks; the scheduling and the amount of extra people that have to be brought in. It\u2019s just a phenomenal amount of work on behalf of all the departments. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m most proud of. I\u2019m proud of us as a team in Toronto, and the amount of coordination that went into it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Where are you now in your process of starting to say goodbye to this character, and will you continue your involvement in this world with <em>The Testaments<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    We\u2019re definitely talking about <em>The Testaments<\/em>, I definitely will be involved in <em>The Testaments<\/em>. In what capacities, I cannot say. But I definitely will be involved in some capacity. It\u2019s been one of the most fulfilling experiences, creatively, of my life making this show. I\u2019m very grateful that we have<em> The Testaments <\/em>to make so I don\u2019t have to say goodbye to the world of the show and to all the people who make it \u2014 that\u2019s a big consolation prize. I haven\u2019t even begun to think about [saying goodbye to June], honestly, I\u2019m just focused on making the final season the best one yet. We\u2019re working on the scripts, we\u2019re working on hiring and on the schedule. So, I\u2019m just focused on making the final season. And I can\u2019t wait for people to see this finale. I\u2019m very proud of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Interview edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> finale and entire fifth season is now streaming on Hulu.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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