Hulu is expanding The Handmaid’s Tale universe with The Testaments spinoff — but will Elisabeth Moss reprise her role as June?
Moss, 43, was asked about the potential for returning to Gilead through the Thursday, March 19, episode of The View, to which she replied, “I couldn’t inform you if I used to be! It’s been really cool. [Producing the show] means I didn’t should say goodbye to the world, which I used to be very pleased about.”
The actress also praised Chase Infiniti, who plays her onscreen daughter.
“Obviously, attending to be a part of anything Chase is an element of is so exciting and such an honor. It’s cool,” Moss said while calling The Testaments a show “for individuals who love the show and love Handmaid’s, however it’s also for individuals who’ve never seen Handmaid’s. No offense taken, it’s just slightly bit different.”
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical name, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women to be assigned to men for bearing children. The series aired from 2017 to 2025.
The Testaments, which premieres April 8, is about three to 4 years later. Ann Dowd‘s Aunt Lydia serves because the narrator as viewers are push back into the dystopian future. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Girls” to infiltrate Canada in an try to smuggle incriminating details about Gilead’s regime, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source inside Gilead.
Along with Infiniti, 25, and Dowd, The Testaments stars Eva Foote, Rowan Blanchard, Kira Guloien, Amy Seimetz and Brad Alexander. Birva Pandya, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Mattea Conforti, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Mabel Li and Isolde Ardies make up the remainder of the solid.
Creator Bruce Miller previously opened up about how closely the series would follow Atwood’s book The Testaments, hinting that “it’s not going to trace precisely” to the novel.
“Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters,” he told TVLine in 2022. “We needed to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to should go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is actually going to be a sequel to the show.”
More recently, Infiniti, 25, revealed she didn’t meet Moss until she was nearly done filming The Testaments.
“I actually didn’t get to fulfill Elisabeth Moss really until the top [of filming],” Infiniti told People in January.
Infiniti recalled Moss’ advice to her, adding, “But she sort of immediately after I met her, wrapped me into a giant hug and was sort of like, ‘You bought this. You bought this. OK? You bought it.’”
The Testaments premieres on Hulu April 8.