Actress Elizabeth Moss didn't leave the set of "The Handmaid's Tale" empty-handed after filming the final episodes - literally. After starring in six seasons of the hit series, as well as serving as executive producer and director, Moss admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that when it came to taking souvenirs off the set, she "ravaged the place."
"I have a complete maid costume at home - I don't know what I'm going to do with it at all. It's not like I'm going to wear it anywhere," the actress jokingly commented.
Her co-star from the series Ivon Strahovski she admitted that she kept a finger made from the skin of her character Serena, and Madeline Bridges revealed that she kept the blindfold of the character Janine she played.
"When we finished filming I walked off the set and put all my stuff in my bag, then just disappeared from there," Bruer recalled.
Both producer and screenwriter Erik Tučman After filming, he took the costume home, and as he told the media, he plans to keep it in his closet.
During the grand premiere of the sixth season, the series' crew also talked about how it feels to air this series in the current political situation.
"Unfortunately, we need 'The Handmaid's Tale' more than ever. I think we really need this last season," commented Bruer.
"We have to show that there is an unquenchable flame in people that cannot be put away or rejected. That will never change, neither in the series nor outside of it. Some things are true, they always have been, like the existence of transgender people," the actress added.
Actor Bredley Whitford recalled that when the series first began airing in 2017, “Roe v. Wade” (a case in the US judiciary that concerned abortion rights) was being heard.
"The idea that it would be judged the way it was was unthinkable. During the airing of this series, we saw that women's health was completely politicized. We saw that the president was elected while turning the queer community into a political battleground," the actor commented.
The series' plot depicts maids being forced to bear children for men, and Whitford says that with abortion banned in the United States, forced pregnancies "are happening right now and it's very disturbing."
"I hope people understand that all of this is happening now, but I also hope that they don't give up because the heart of this series, June (Moss), realizes that despair is a luxury her children can't afford, and that action is the opposite of despair. We have to be the change," the actor said.
His colleague Samira Vajli agrees:
"It's definitely not what I wanted to happen, it's something no one wanted to even imagine, but I think this series has now met the world and America in the right place."
The sixth season of “The Handmaid's Tale” begins airing on April 8th.
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