[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale.]
The Handmaid’s Story got here to an finish after six seasons on Tuesday, Might 27. Whereas June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke (O-T Fagbenle) have been tragically not reunited with their kidnapped daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), Hannah’s story isn’t over but. She can be a major character within the upcoming spinoff, The Testaments, which is at present in manufacturing in Toronto. And we all know that Hannah, who was renamed Agnes by her Gilead dad and mom, will nonetheless be residing in Gilead within the spinoff. With June and Luke nonetheless alive and preventing for Mayday and preventing to search out Hannah in The Handmaid’s Story sequence finale’s finish, the door is open for them to seem within the spinoff centering their daughter.
Hannah was seen in The Handmaid’s Story sequence finale, however solely in flashbacks and in a imaginative and prescient June had of her daughter within the episode’s last moments. Hannah was performed by Jordan Hutson (seen above, with Moss) as an alternative of Jordana Brewster. The Testaments is a story about rising up in Gilead. The sequence will inform that story by way of Hannah/Agnes, as specified by Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the identical identify. Chase Infiniti will play Hannah, who’s barely extra grown up on this spinoff. And Ann Dowd will return as Aunt Lydia. The third major character is a lady named Daisy, performed by Lucy Halliday.
Due to Hannah’s kidnapping initially of the sequence, viewers by no means bought to know Hannah very effectively in The Handmaid’s Story. She was intermittently seen all through the sequence when used as a software to make the rebellious June fall in line and break her spirit. We’ve additionally seen loads of Hannah flashbacks to the years earlier than Gilead overthrew the U.S. authorities and commenced its fascist regime.
What could viewers be shocked to study Hannah after we lastly get to know her in The Testaments? And can Aunt Lydia be as current in her and Daisy’s lives as she was in June’s? The Testaments showrunner Bruce Miller (govt producer and creator of The Handmaid’s Story sequence and its former showrunner) tells TV Insider what to anticipate, revealing some particulars about “the plums,” daughters of Gilead in coaching to turn out to be wives as seen within the authentic sequence.
“To reply the second half, first I’d say that Lydia is actually as concerned within the lives of Daisy and Hannah/Agnes in The Testaments as Lydia was within the lifetime of June, however in a really, very completely different means,” Miller shares. “To start with of The Handmaid‘s Story, Lydia is actually a formidable and terrifying character. In The Testaments, her position is taking good care of educating the plums — probably the most treasured women in Gilead, some of the treasured assets within the nation. Lydia isn’t required to mete out punishment to the plums, however she isn’t within the position of breaking the spirit of worldly girls who know fashionable life, as she did with the handmaids.”
“You’re proper that we didn’t get to know Hannah very effectively in The Handmaid‘s Story, which was type of central to the tragedy of June,” Miller goes on. “She was not in a position to get to know her daughter effectively as she bought older. So is that this Hannah (who’s now known as and thinks of herself as Agnes) who we anticipate her to be? I don’t know. I actually see the June inside her, and I hope over the course of the season and the course of the present, Agnes goes to attempt to change her world in ways in which would make June very proud.”
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