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 changing into a mom by means of the present’s run has made her really feel the “weight” of the sequence “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 sequence, the actress mirrored on her journey starring as Moira Strand, and shared her ideas on her character placing on the pink handmaid’s gown as soon as once more as she joins the revolution in opposition to 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 plenty of issues that Moira felt by way of trepidation, a effervescent fireplace, being a part of the combat once more in a approach that’s on the entrance traces and never having to only be a voice and, ‘How do I do that from Canada?’ However having 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 sequence — teased what followers can anticipate for the sixth and ultimate season.
“Truthfully, I feel in terms of these six seasons, Season 6 is in actual rivalry with Season 1, on which one is the perfect … And I don’t say that. Return to my different interviews, I do not,” she advised TooFab. “The best way our writers have been attuned to ladies, to international politics, to what’s related, what individuals need to see, but additionally the story that we’re telling. I feel the dedication of our followers who’ve caught with this present might 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 “undoubtedly” does really feel like life imitating artwork.
“I feel particularly in terms 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, only a few 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’d have imagined again then that the present may not be as related because it was then. And we see that that isn’t the case.”
Wiley additionally introduced up how a serious milestone in her private life resulted within the present making even a much bigger influence.
“Me changing into a mom in the course of 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 sequence, The Temptation, which is an adaptation of a Margaret Atwood sequel novel of the identical identify, Wiley mentioned, “We won’t. We won’t. I feel I am performed with Margaret Atwood proper now and the trauma that she has so expertly written.”
Nonetheless, it is secure to say that Wiley might 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 souvenir at house that doubtless holds many recollections.
“I may need a pink gown in my closet,” she advised TooFab when requested if she stole something from set. “I imply, I do not know. Perhaps.”
Take a look at Wiley’s full interview within the video on the high of this submit!
The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 begins on Hulu on April 8, 2025 with the primary three episodes premiering that day.
