Tourists, golden retrievers and dozens of handmaids? Just your typical visit to the Lincoln Memorial.
Dozens of handmaids lingered on the Mall on Feb. 15, when Hulu’s “The Handmaid's Tale” filmed in Washington. By Sonia Rao Sonia Rao Pop culture reporter Email Bio Follow February 28 at 11:44 AM The handmaids had been sent good weather.
As the handmaids loitered, Washington residents and eager tourists went about their days. A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers. A jogger rushed past armed men playing members of the show’s secret police force and yelled to her friends, “Did you not take a picture of me with the Eyes?” A few young children left their mother’s side and wandered toward the handmaids, mesmerized by the unusual garments.
The second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” follows pregnant handmaid June as she lives under the close watch of Gilead commander Fred Waterford and his wife, Serena Joy , in Boston. June gets separated from her family in the first season, and she’s now expected to give the Waterfords her newborn. They treat her horrifically, epitomized in a scene where the commander rapes June in an attempt to induce labor. Serena holds June down during the assault.
Fiennes found it “somewhat strange and ugly” to preach Gilead’s oppressive ideology in front of a memorial representing the “high ideals of American values.” Strahovski, who had also filmed another scene with Moss earlier that morning, said in a separate phone call that she felt like she was “really on the wrong side” while standing on the steps in rich teal garments, the color worn by Gilead commanders’ complicit wives.
But those who don’t watch “The Handmaid’s Tale” probably felt confused that day on the Mall. Among the local actresses who played the handmaids were two women who had previously worked together on the Amazon series “Jack Ryan.” Asked how they wound up in Gilead, one of them responded that she had submitted her information to a casting call she found on Facebook, and “they got back to me and asked if we wanted to be — what are we? Not bridesmaids. We’re . . .
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