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When The Handmaid’s Story concludes its sixth and remaining season, its ending will likely be a deal with for followers.
Throughout an look on the April 16 episode of The Wealthy Eisen Present, Sam Jaeger — who takes on the function of Mark Tuello, a consultant of the American authorities, on the hit sequence — teased what viewers can count on from the upcoming sequence finale.
Primarily based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical title, Hulu drama is ready in a dystopian world the place a nation referred to as Gilead has taken over the previous United States. It offers with heavy topics like identification politics, rape and shedding bodily autonomy as fertile ladies are pressured to develop into Handmaids and bear youngsters for Gilead officers and their barren wives.
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“It is a onerous present. It was a tough present to look at for some seasons, and I believe we knew that,” Jaeger mentioned of the sequence. “We need to reward the followers this 12 months, as a result of we put them by hell and it is only a actually riveting season and a becoming end.”
“Lots of occasions folks attempt to finish reveals, and they do not know how,” he continued, including that he thought writers “actually caught the touchdown” with the present’s ending. “You do not need to be misplaced. I perceive for all intents and functions, you need to really feel like we bought to the top, and other people really feel satiated, but it surely additionally feels true to the present.”
As a result of the present offers with darkish themes, Jaeger additionally revealed that the solid preferred to diffuse the strain by cracking jokes and collaborating in enjoyable group actions.
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“The those who work with me all have nice senses of humor and do not take themselves too significantly,” he mentioned. “Now we have a good time on the present after which we go into taking pictures this harrowing scene, after which come out of it. I believe you want that levity or else what is the level of dwelling?”
He recalled how the solid took a bunch “hip hop class collectively” whereas filming the final season.
“Yvonne Strahovski is massive into dancing,” he continued. “We did that collectively which was humiliating. However you recognize, I do what I can. I get in there and I reduce a rug.”
Along with Jaeger and Strahovski, the sequence stars Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Max Minghella, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, O.T. Fagbenle, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel and Ever Carradine.
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New episodes of The Handmaid’s Story drop Tuesdays on Hulu.
