The actress additionally weighs in on the present’s relevancy because it returns — as soon as once more — throughout a Trump administration, and shares how turning into a mom by way of the present’s run has made her really feel the “weight” of the collection “actually, actually in another way.”
The Handmaid’s Story star Samira Wiley is opening up about her character returning to the place all of it started for the ultimate season: Gilead.
Whereas talking with TooFab at PaleyFest LA for the Season 6 of the Hulu collection, the actress mirrored on her journey starring as Moira Strand, and shared her ideas on her character placing on the crimson handmaid’s gown as soon as once more as she joins the revolution towards the totalitarian authorities.
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“I hadn’t worn that gown since Season 1, since, like, the fourth episode of Season 1,” mentioned Wiley, 37. “So I feel I felt, Samira really felt a variety of issues that Moira felt when it comes to trepidation, a effervescent hearth, being a part of the struggle once more in a method that’s on the entrance strains and never having to simply be a voice and, ‘How do I do that from Canada?’ However with the ability to step, virtually step again into herself.”
“The [circular] journey of taking part in Moira has been very satisfying,” she added.
Wiley — who gained an Emmy in 2018 for her efficiency within the collection — teased what followers can anticipate for the sixth and last season.
“Truthfully, I feel in the case of these six seasons, Season 6 is in actual rivalry with Season 1, on which one is the very best … And I don’t say that. Return to my different interviews, I do not,” she instructed TooFab. “The way in which our writers have been attuned to ladies, to world politics, to what’s related, what folks wish to see, but in addition the story that we’re telling. I feel the dedication of our followers who’ve caught with this present will likely be rewarded.”
As many followers have identified, The Handmaid’s Story seems to be extra related than ever because it drops a brand new season throughout a Trump administration — with a conservative-majority Congress and Supreme Court docket — bringing the way forward for ladies’s rights into query.
Wiley agreed that it “positively” does really feel like life imitating artwork.
“I feel particularly in the case of our first Donald Trump presidency that occurred in the course of us taking pictures Season 1,” she mentioned of the primary season of The Handmaid’s Story, which premiered in April 2017, just some months into Trump’s first time period in workplace. “And to have that occur once more in Season 6 was, I do not know, I assume I might have imagined again then that the present may not be as related because it was then. And we see that that’s not the case.”
Wiley additionally introduced up how a significant milestone in her private life resulted within the present making even an even bigger impression.
“Me turning into a mom throughout the time taking part in Moira, the burden of that has hit me actually, actually in another way,” added Wiley, who welcomed her daughter, George, with spouse Lauren Morelli in 2021. “Having these gigantic issues be part of my legacy as an actor, to be part of a present like that is one thing actors dream of.”
And as for if followers can anticipate to see Wiley’s Moira within the upcoming sequel collection, The Temptation, which is an adaptation of a Margaret Atwood sequel novel of the identical title, Wiley mentioned, “We is not going to. We is not going to. I feel I am finished with Margaret Atwood proper now and the trauma that she has so expertly written.”
Nonetheless, it is secure to say that Wiley will likely be remembering her expertise starring on The Handmaid’s Story for a few years to come back, as she hinted that she might have a really particular memento at residence that probably holds many recollections.
“I may need a crimson gown in my closet,” she instructed TooFab when requested if she stole something from set. “I imply, I do not know. Possibly.”
Take a look at Wiley’s full interview within the video on the high of this publish!
The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 begins on Hulu on April 8, 2025 with the primary three episodes premiering that day.
