{"id":571288,"date":"2026-04-08T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:55:08","slug":"elisabeth-moss-reprises-handmaids-tale-role-in-the-testaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571288\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Moss Reprises ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Role In ‘The Testaments’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from Hulu<\/a>\u2018s series premiere of The Testaments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSurprise! If fans of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale were worried they\u2019d never see June Osbourne again, they needn\u2019t have. Elisabeth Moss<\/a>, who executive produces Hulu\u2019s The Testaments, made her big return as the heroic character she played across 6 seasons of the mothership series in the new show\u2019s premiere episode tonight.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeries showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller spoke to Deadline about the decision to have June be part of the show from Episode 1.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think in some ways, June is such an anchor for the character of Agnes [Chase Infiniti] that I don\u2019t think you could have the story without June, even if there was no Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d he revealed. \u201cElisabeth Moss has been our creative partner since the very, very beginning, and in every way. So I think that having her as an executive producer, you feel the presence of June all the time. Fortunately, we were able to move our schedules around and do everything that we could to get her into the show a little,\u201d Miller added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Testaments is set a few years after the events of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2018s series finale. Viewers reconnect with June in the premiere of the continuation series as part of Daisy\u2019s (Lucy Halliday<\/a>) storyline in her native Toronto. The scene begins with Daisy longboarding on the street en route to a store, where she walks in greeting someone, and June is standing and observing while the Cranberries\u2019 hit song Dream plays in the background.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo words between them were exchanged.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBringing back people from Handmaid\u2019s Tale into this world to continue their story is just such a rich pleasure. This is especially true for the actors and me because you never get to go back [to a finished show] and say, well, a few years later they\u2019re doing this. But we get to do it with a few different characters [on The Testaments]. I think it\u2019s a pleasure, but it also rounds out the world in a way that you understand how you feel about Gilead because you have June there going, \u2018Oh yeah, I used to feel that way too.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tChase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the source material, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Agnes is the new name given to June and Luke\u2019s (O-T Fagbenle) daughter, Hannah, in The Handmaid\u2019s Tale. Additionally, Daisy is really Nicole, June\u2019s youngest daughter with Nick (Max Mighella). Due to Hannah and Nicole\u2019s age differences in the series finale of Handmaid\u2019s, Miller confirmed Daisy is not Nicole in The Testaments series.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaughter of June or not, Halliday shared her joy over working with Moss on the new show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were so fortunate to have Elisabeth Moss, even as an exec on this show; she was so influential in the experience that we had. She\u2019s an encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to Gilead in this world, and these characters, and we really leaned on that, and we really utilized that source,\u201d shared Halliday.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cAnd I think most of all, what she gave us was the reassurance that\u2014 because we\u2019re stepping into a world that\u2019s already loved and has done so well and been so prolific that neither one of us wanted to mess that up, or for audiences to feel uncomfortable upon our arrival\u2014 having her reassurance and her thumbs up in her space that she gave us to step into this world and these characters was brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTonight\u2019s premiere featured three episodes, which will later be available to stream via Hulu. The following weeks\u2019 episodes will be released singularly on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from Hulu\u2018s series premiere of The Testaments. Surprise! If fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[114551,88,10028,251771,169008,92],"class_list":["post-571288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-elisabeth-moss","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-lucy-halliday","tag-the-testaments","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}