‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Star Speaks About Their Series Finale Return

While Looking Into a Window Marked with The Words, “Freedom,” June (Elisabeth Moss) and Viewers of The Handmaid’s Tale Heard A Familiar Voice.

“Blossed be the Fruit.”

The voice beenged to alexis Bledel, who retirned as emily in the Series Finale of the Hulu Series, WHICH BEGAN STREAMING TUESDAY.

Her Arrival Was As Much of A Surprise to June (Elisabeth Moss) As It Is To The Audence Who Hasn’t Seen the OG Handmaid Since Bledel LEFTER SEASON FURER. Bledel, an Original Star Who Earned Four Nominations for Her Role on the Hulu Dystopian Series, Departed Without A Special Explanation.

While The Fifth Season Was in Production, Bledel Had Said, “After Much Thought, I Felt I HAD TO STEP AWAY FROM The Handmaid’s Tale at this time. I am forever grateful to [showrunner] Bruce Miller for Writing Such Truthful and Resonant Scenes for Emily, and to Hulu, Mgm, The Cast and Crew for Their Support. ”

The Series Then Explained Her Character Emily’s Absense in the FIFTH SEASON Premiere, WHEN JUNE IS TOLD by Emily’s Wife, Sylvia (Clea Duvall) Lydia (Ann Dowd), and that She Called to Say Goodbye to Her Family, Which Included a Young Son. WHEN JUNE PUSHES TO GO SAVE EMILY, SYLVIA Tells June Not to Go After Her, ConvinCed They’ll Never See Emily Again. “IT’S WHAT She ​​NEED TO DO,“ SAYS SYLVIA. “She’s Gone.”

BLEDEL SPOKE to The Hollywood Reporter for a recent oral history on the Series and About Her Return, WHICH WAS AN IDEA from Series Creator Bruor Bruce Miller, Who Wrote the Final Episode, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Wich Wih Was.

“IT WAS AN IMMEDIATE YES,” She Says of Coming Back for the Series Ending Cameo. “IT FELT RIGHT TO BRING CLOSure to Emily’s Journy and Offer The Audence A Sense of Completion. Production Runs Like A Well-Oiled Machine-Everyone Brings Their Best. [sequel series] The testaments. ”

Alexis Bledel, Here with Moss, Returned As Emily for the Series Finale. Disney/Steve Wilkie

In Emily’s Return, she and june Continued the Full-Circle Theme of the Final Season by Walking-in Two-Through The Streets of A Freed Boston After An Embreta The Salled Back. (WHEN, IN VOICEOVER, JUNE CALLED EMILY A “PIUS LITTLE SHIT”). Long Gone Are Their Cloaks As Their City is Now Out from Under Gilead’s Rule After Success from the Guerrrilla Resistance Mayday Movement to Down Down.

Emily filled in the lost time, Telling June She Was A Martha for a Commander Who Was a Friends and that She Kept in Touch with Sylvia and Her Son. “SO, YOU WEEN’T JUST GONE?” Says June. “Of Course Not,” Says Emily. “They’re reason i’m righting.”

The Friends Stoped in Front of the Wall and Emily Pointed Out the Miracle of Them Being Alive, Together, to Read the Hopeful and Inspiring Words Before Them Written by women who are now now free from gilead. NEXT TO THE MESSAGES ARE Two Hanging Guardians – Institute of the Familiar Sight of Two Hanging Handmaids, or Marthas, or “Traitors.”

Emily Urged June to Adjust Her Definition of “Impossible,” and Bledel’s Cameo then Ended with a Dream Sequence WHERE JURE IMAGINED IF There Never Was a Gilead. June, Emily, Moira (Samira Wiley), A Two-Eyed Janine (Madeline Brewer), Rita (Amanda Brugel) and KILLED Handmaids Alma (Nina Kiri) And Bahia (Bahia) Singing Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” in a Karaoke Bar.

“I HOPE VIEWERS TAKE AWAY TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE WHEN Things Seem Impossible,“ Bledel Adds To Thr o Her Cameo. “EVEN IF IT SEEMS SEEDS YOU PLANT COULDN’T POSSIBLY GROW, PLANT SEEDS OF HOPE Anyway. You Never Know; they might find a way.”

A DREAM SEQUENCE BROUGHT BACK SEVERAL DEPARTED STARS. Left to Right: Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Nina Kiri, Amanda Brugel, Samira Wiley, Bahia Watson and Elisabeth Moss. Disney/Steve Wilkie

WHEN Speaking to Thr About the Series Finale, Moss Said that Once Miller Shared His Early Idea of ​​Bringing Bringing Blating Back for the Final Episode She was Seton Making It Happen. Turns Out, Bledel Agreed. “I said to him at the time, ‘you realize now you’ve told me that, we have to do it.’ I Not the Easiest Thing in the World to Call an Actor and Be Like, ‘Can You Come Back For This One Episode?’ They’re Busy. [on set] Was with alexis. SO it meant a lot to get to work with her again, ”Said Moss.

Miller Added that Her Day Back On Set Was A Hug-Fest. “She Crited and Hugged People Every Four Feet,” HE SAID, ADDING THAT “IT WAS WONDERFUL to See Her and Lizzie Get Right Back Into It After all that THESE GUYS.

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The Handmaid’s Tale Finale is Now Streaming on Hulu. Read Thr’s Series Oral History with The Cast, Creator and More, and Our Full Series Finale Explainer with Bruce Miller and Elisabeth Moss.