Elisabeth Moss discusses the pivotal scene that led to the explosive TheHandmaidsTale season ender
about that scene, Moss says that, after conversations with documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus, who directed the episode, they realized that Fred’s apology would ultimately seal his fate. After their confrontation, June decides to take justice into her own hands as she, and a group of refugee Handmaids, kill Fred in the woods. Using her allies both outside and inside Gilead , June negotiates a trade: Fred Waterford for 22 women held captive amid the resistance.
“We talked a lot about it, and we talked a lot about it with Liz. Having worked with and spoken to various female survivors, Liz talked about how the worst thing that you could hear from an attacker or an abuser was that they were sorry. Because it meant they knew what they were doing,” explains Moss. “What was going to push [June] to revenge? We figured out it was that apology. And once we had the bones of that idea and that scene, it was just a matter of doing it.
It almost comes naturally as you’re going through the season. I love episodic television because you get to explore something hour by hour; it’s like making 10 movies. You get to go with your character through everything they’re experiencing, so you have this real bird’s eye view of what’s happening. And by the time you get to an episode 10, it’s like, “Well, obviously this is exactly what is going to happen.
He is so beautiful and brilliant in that scene; he is so pitch-perfect. We had talked a lot about it, and we talked a lot about it with Liz. Liz had come from her documentary work from having worked with and spoken to various female survivors, and she talked about how the worst thing that you could hear from an attacker or an abuser was that they were sorry. Because it meant they knew what they were doing. That it would be better if they were totally insane and had no idea.
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