Hulu’s highly-anticipated The Testaments has put in quite a lot of work to make their solid look very different on The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff than they do in real life.
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical name, The Handmaid’s Tale, which aired from 2017 to 2025, took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women to be assigned to men for bearing children.
After The Handmaid’s Tale‘s final season was announced in 2022, creator Bruce Miller stepped down as showrunner to work on The Testaments as executive producers Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang took over the day-to-day duties on the flagship drama.
“We’re making The Testaments, and it’s not going to trace precisely,” Miller told TVLine on the time. “Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters. We needed to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to must go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is definitely going to be a sequel to the show.”
The Testaments, which is about 15 years later, is narrated by Ann Dowd‘s Aunt Lydia as viewers are push back into the dystopian future with characters reminiscent of Agnes from Gilead and Daisy from Canada — as they secretly gather and smuggle incriminating details about Gilead’s regime overseas. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Girls” to infiltrate Canada, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source inside Gilead.
“Although I couldn’t proceed with the story of Offred, I could proceed with three other people concerned in these events and tell the story of the start of the top, because we all know from The Handmaid’s Tale that Gilead vanishes,” Atwood told journalists at an event in 2019. “It’s now not present 200 years into the long run, because they’re having a symposium on it. How did it collapse? How do these sorts of regimes disappear? I used to be desirous about exploring that.”
She continued: “There [are] some latest costume selections on this book. Human beings throughout time love outfits that inform you who you’re taking a look at, like football teams and things like that. So yes, we have now some latest outfits.”
Along with Dowd, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Rowan Blanchard, Amy Seimetz, Mabel Li, Brad Alexander and Mattea Conforti make up the remaining of the solid. Hulu confirmed that The Testaments will premiere in April 2026.
Keep scrolling to see how The Testaments characters compare to the solid playing them: