After multiple seasons of holding back her anger, Elisabeth Moss says her HandmaidsTale character June was more than ready to “give people a piece of her mind”
’s titular character breaking barriers as she faced discrimination in “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker,” several top performances involved carefully choosing when to hold things in, and when to let it all go.
“I think she was very honest and true to herself in how she represented herself. She was not a shrinking violet, and I don’t think there was ever a door that was shut in Madam’s face that she did not open,” says Spencer. “I think that’s also important because we’re now living in a society where social media and all of these things present that everything is perfect and there is no adversary, no hardships to achieving goals — and that’s incorrect.
“This role was, emotionally, one of the most challenging because every scene there is devastating news, there’s hope, there’s anxiety,” Dockery says. “It was a real roller coaster each day, and we really had to be quite specific about how far to go in each scene. She could very easily be a ball of tears in every shot, so it was a very careful process to decide how far we go in each scene.”
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