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A busy 2020 for Elisabeth Moss kicked off at Sundance with Josephine Decker's Shirley, in which she stars as seminal horror writer Shirley Jackson. Next, the actress saw blockbuster success with The Invisible Man, a modern adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Launching her own production company in July, she then…

Ahead of its Season 4 premiere, Hulu has renewed its flagship drama series The Handmaid’s Tale for a fifth season. The announcement was made Thursday by Dana Walden, Chairman of Entertainment, Walt Disney Television, during the Disney Investor Day. Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale…

A nationwide protest against the Donald Trump-Mike Pence presidential ticket and the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett was coordinated Saturday by the Women’s March organization. More than 400 events were planned throughout the country. Leading the battle in many cities were the women dressed in the red…

“He doesn’t have a lot of respect for women. We might as well be handmaids.” That was the feeling among of a group of Orange County residents who, as they gathered to mourn the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also found themselves in shock and fearful of how Donald Trump might fill her seat. In that…

EXCLUSIVE: Mckenna Grace (The Haunting of Hill House, Troop Zero) has joined the upcoming fourth season of Hulu’s flagship drama series The Handmaid’s Tale, which resumed production in Toronto two weeks ago, sources said. Grace will recur as Mrs. Keyes, a sharply intelligent, teenaged wife of a much older Commander…

“There’s something about the nature of the writing on the show,” remarked The Handmaid’s Tale star Bradley Whitford. “It refuses to take an easy journey.” Anyone who has been following June’s journey for the last three seasons would agree with that description. The finale of Season 3 left a cliffhanger when June…

In the third season of The Handmaid's Tale, one of production designer Elisabeth William's challenges was to craft a dystopian version of Washington, D.C., for a nation overthrown by a totalitarian regime. Created by Bruce Miller, Hulu's acclaimed drama centers on June (later known as Offred), a woman who is forced to…

"I think a lot of the things that Bruce, the writers' room and I are dealing with is the concept of what it actually means to be a leader and if you were somebody who was not born for the job," declared The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss of the primary theme and consequence of the Emmy winning series' tumultuous…

The horrors of the world of The Handmaid's Tale have perhaps never loomed so large and lucid as they do in the Washington DC-set ‘Household’ episode of the Hulu series' third season. "Basically it is stripping America of its freedom and silencing it at its core," said producer designer Elisabeth Williams of the…

“I can’t rest. My daughter deserves better.” So says Elisabeth Moss’ June Osborne, who continues her rebellion against the totalitarian Gilead regime in Season 4 of Hulu’s Emmy-laden drama The Handmaid’s Tale. The series doesn’t return until 2021, but you can watch the first teaser — revealed during the streamer’s…

“I always joke that my movie career is basically–I play the guy you don’t want to get laid.” That was just one of a series of observations Bradley Whitford shared with me when he appeared for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. That movie career by the way has been active of late. Recent…

On today’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Elisabeth Moss talks about how the stakes of doing her hit Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale rose considerably during Season 3, including the challenges of keeping this provocative show moving forward. The first season saw the drama series conquering the…