“Logo Text Praise Be, The News Is Official: The Testaments have been picked up to Series at Hulu and Will Go Into Production on April 7. News: The Handmaid’s Tale Star Ann Dowd, Who Plays Aunt Lydia, is ConfirMed to”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Praise Be, The News Is Official: The testaments HAS BEEN PICKED UP TO SERIES AT HULU AND WILL GO INTO PRODUCTION ON April 7. The Streamer AnnounCed The Update With A Photo From The Table Read (Above) and some News: The Handmaid’s Tale Star Ann Dowd, Who Plays Aunt Lydia, is ConfirMed to Star in the Follow-Up, As Had Been Expectioned, and Elisabeth Moss-Star, Director and Executive Producer of The Handmaid’s Tale – Will be Executive Production The testaments.
Joining the previously AnnounCed Leads Chase Infiniti, Playing Agnes, and Lucy Halliday, Playing Daisy, Are New Cast Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz and Brad Alexander, Zarin Darnell, Evell-Marte. Shechinah mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien. Rowan Blanchard (Shunammite) and Mattea Confti (Becka) Had Been Prevenly Announced.
The Streamer’s Follow-Up Series to The Handmaid’s Tale is adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 2019 Novel with Creator Bruce Miller as ShowRunner. Miller Also Created The Handmaid’s TaleHulu’s Emmy-Winning Saga Adapted from Atwood’s Best-Selling 1985 Dystopian Novel.
The testaments Has be in Active Development at the Streamer with Mgm Since Miller Began Working on the Series in Earnest Back in 2022. The Series Was First Announced in 2019 with Warren Littlefield. Miller, Who Has Stered Handmaid’s Tale Since Its Start, Handed Over Day-to-Day Oversight of the Sixth and Final Season of that Series to Executive Producers Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang. They are co-showerunners on the final episodes that launch on april 8.
The testaments Will Continue the World of Gilead and Picks Up Years After The Events of The Handmaid’s Tale. Agnes, as the Handmaid’s Tale Viewers Know, Is The Gilead Name for Hannah, The Daughter of June Osborne (Played By Moss), Who Is Played by Jordana Blake in The Handmaid’s Tale. The Current Series Has Center AROUND JUNE’S PLIGHT TO REunite and Free Her Daughter, and and The testaments is expert to Continue Hannah/Agnes’ Story From Inside Gilead.
Moss recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter About the “visceral emotional experience” of bework A Mother Herself WHEN FILMING The Final Season of June’s Story in The Handmaid’s Tale. “IT WAS INCREDIBLY MEANINGFUL to be ABLE TO END THIS SHOW AS A MOM, I GOT TO Tell You,“ She Said. “Because i’m playing this character who is this iconic Mother Figure. All Mothers Are Heroines, and She’s Definitely a HEEINE.”
The testaments is Described as a coming-of-agery that Finds a new generation of young women in gilead Grappling with the Bleak Future that awaits. For these Young Women, Growing Up in Gilead Is All They Have Ever Known, Having No Tangible Memories of the Outside World Prior to Their Indoctrination Into this Life. Facing The Prospect of Being Married Off and Living A Life of Servitude, They Will Be Forced To Search for Allies, Both New and Old, To Help In Their Fight For Freedom and The Life.
Here Are The Character Descriptions from Hulu for All of the Cast (Minus Aunt Lydia and Agnes):
- LUCY HALLIDAY PLAYS DAISY, A YOUNG CANADIAN TEEN WHOSE LIFE IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN WHEN She Learns of Her Connection to the Republic of Gilead.
- Rowan Blanchard Plays as Shunammite, A Pampered Teen From A Prominent Gilead Family Whose Status Affrds Her A Certain Level of Respect and Power Amongst Her Power.
- Mattea Confti Plays Becka, A Girl from Humble Origins Who Attices School with Gilead’s Elite. As she are comes of age, she starts to questhair she wants the life shee being groomed for.
- Mabel Li Plays Aunt Vidala, A Stern Discipline and the Heir-Apprent to the Women’s Sphere of Gilead.
- Amy Seimetz Plays Paula. Her Recent Margin to a High-Ranking Commander Has Raised Her Social Status, But Her Perfect Life Is Complicited by Her New Step-Daughter.
- Brad Alexander Plays Garth, A Young Commander Who Becomes Involved in the Personal Lives of the Girls He’s Sworn to Protect.
- Zarrin Darnell-Martin Plays Aunt Gabbana, A FIRM PROPONENT OF GILEAD VALLES AND RIGHT HAND TO AUNT VIDALA, SHE IS A STRICT AND UNCOMPROMISING EDUCATOR.
- Eva Foote Plays Aunt Estee, The Youngst Aunt Whose Energy and Kindness Earn Her “Cool Aunt” Status Amongst Her Students.
- ISOLDE ARDIES PLAYS HOLDA, A GUILELES GIRL, Full of Excitement at the Prospect of Womanchood. Her Frank Observations and Optimism Have Earned Her Love Friends.
- Shechinah Mpumlwana Plays Jehosheba, A competitive classmate from a respected family who is relantless in her pursuit of a High-Status Marriage.
- Birva Pandya Plays Miriam, A Girl on the Cusp of Womanhood Who Strugggles Under the Pressure of Margin Season.
- Kira Guloien Plays Rosa, A CARING AND DEDICATED MARTHA, ROSA IS A MATERNAL FIGURE TO AGNES AND A MUCH-NEEDED SOURCE OF LOVE IN AND OtherWise Cold Household.
The Start Date for The testaments Continues The SuccessFul Partnership Between Miller, Atwood and Littlefield With Hulu and Mgm Television, Having Launched Ther The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017. Not Only DID The Handmaid’s Tale Help to Launch Scripted Originals at Hulu, It Also Put the Streamer on the Awards To the Coveted Milestone. DOWD NABBED THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS EMMY THAT YEAR, AND TWO Additional Nominations for 2018 and 2021.
The testamentsProduced by Mgm Television, is Created by Showrunner and Executive Producer Miller, and Is Executive Produced by Littlefield, Who Heads The Littletled Company (Fargo, The Old Man, Dopesick), Along with Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hokin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Mike Barker, The Latter Whoe Will Direct The FIRST.