As you prepare to view The Handmaid’s Tale a sequel spinoff Testaments on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (international) this week – launching on April 8 – something a little closer to home might come to mind.
When season 1 of The Handmaid’s Tale first launched in April 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the USA a few months ago.
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‘The world chooses to make us important, and Margaret Atwood helps us to live’
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“There Margaret [Atwood] first published The Handmaid’s Tale in the 1980s, he saw what the world could turn into,” begins Littlefield. And Bruce, brilliantly, was able to adapt to that. As we’re in the middle of making the first season The Handmaid’s Talenumber 45 came into effect.”
“Is Trump getting help from an audience obsessed with the world we’ve brought to life? Maybe. But I think we always come back to Margaret’s vision as a worldview. That was also true when Testaments was published a few years ago – Margaret looked again at how the world was changing, and that Gilead might still be alive … but in a different place, in a different time.
He continues, “Bruce and I have been saying for years now, we’d like to go quietly and be useless, but the themes keep bringing us back. The world chooses to make us useful, and Margaret helps us survive.”
It is an honest and touching answer. Perhaps we also have a lot to blame for why we agree with Gilead to the extent that we do, and we cannot lay the entire blame at the door of world politics.
“The world has changed, Margaret saw that,” Miller agreed. “That’s not going to happen,” he jokes about their redundant work, though it sounds a bit unfunny in retrospect.
Testaments is an extension of The Handmaid’s Tale in the best possible way, but it means living with uncomfortable ideas and fiction that often feel too close to home. Who knows… maybe we’ll learn from it this time.
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