The star of the tale Handmaid Elisabeth Moss unpacking the super meta-series final

Note: This story contains spoilers of season 6 of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, episode 10.

The star of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Elisabeth Moss, said that the “Super Meta” final of the Hulu show was not at all an end, but rather the long fight in early June to bring Hannah (Jordana Blake).

After an episode 9 emotional and intense tearing, episode 10 entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale” came to conclude the series with some returns from sweet characters, tender farewells and a final scene which serves as PSA that June will remain at the forefront of the Resistance by trying to dismantle Gilead.

“We have thought about it so much. We have thought of a lot of alternatives, a lot of ideas,” Moss told Thewrap. “There were ideas that seemed too practical, or that would not lead,” the wills “, which we do. So there are things that, we did not feel, did not work quite. It was the end that seemed that when you were somehow tested.

Throughout the episode, June examines and re -examines his decision to continue the fight, considering the thoughts of her mother Holly (Cherrty Jones) as well as taking the passion she sees in her husband Luke (Ot Fagbenle). In the final scene, June decides to revisit the start of her life in Gilead, who was like Handmaid offered in Waterford’s house.

“We had to revisit the real crime scene, you know? And it’s such a complicated space for June,” said Moss. “Terrible things happened in this house, but she also fell in love in this house, and it was also when the call was made. There is also where she made friends, like Rita and Emily.”

Although she is sitting in the almost burned house, she begins to record descriptions of her former room, words that will one day become “The Handmaid’s Tale”, a book June plans to devote to families who have been torn by Gilead forces. Even if it is the last episode, Moss says that this is only the genesis of the next chapter in June.

“I love these characters so much, and I would never leave, never any of them will not have the end who, I think, is perfect for them,” said Moss. “For me, this is the perfect end for June. But part of the reason why it is perfect is because it is not an end. She is sitting there and she is just starting to tell her story, and it is back at first. She has a huge war to fight in front of her, and she never goes, never, to rest until her daughter is safe.”

Moss, who presented June’s idea to return to the Waterford house as a last scene to the creative and executive producer Bruce Miller, said that the return of Dark Homecoming was the most appropriate way for June to tell her story.

“I felt like you really wanted to do [Miller] I wanted to do, which was sort of fine where we started, we had to finish in this room. This is where the ghosts of the offerd live. When you think of the original voiceover, “a chair, a table, a lamp”, “I think of this piece, and I think of this window seat, you know – we had to return,” said Moss, referring to the first lines of June in June in the room, which are also the first lines read in the book of the same name of Margaret Atwood.

“This represents what Luke says at this last fantastic moment he has where he talks about:” It is not only bad things, but these are the people you love “and” tells the whole story this time. “And so she has to somehow return to this space to tell the whole story,” said Moss. “It was very sacred, I think, spinning in this space again. We built the interior of the whole. But I had the opportunity to go back to the real house, when we turned the outside, because that’s where I was preparing and everything was very meta. “

What was also Meta for Moss was the return of the character of Alexis Bledel, Dr. Emily Malek. Together, as they did nine years ago, the two walked side by side as they visited the old monuments they used as servants and as actresses who played them.

“It was as if it was not one day. It was just one of those things where she [fit] With the meta-nature of this final, “said Moss.” I am here … I was not returned, what we call “the wall” set next to the river. For example, I had not returned to it for years. And so I am, like June, in this place, I had spent so much time filming and looking for and living. I am back in the neighborhood that I have spent so much from my life in the past nine years, and now Emily is there. I feel all the same things as June. And I also say goodbye to a part of my life, just as June is. So it was like this kind of beautiful moment in a full circle. I cannot imagine saying goodbye to this show without Alexis being part of it. She was in my first shot the first day. Like it was she and me … so it wouldn’t have felt well without bringing her back and being part of it.

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