The Handmaid’s Tale solid is booked and busy with latest projects — including the Testaments spinoff — after the Hulu series got here to a shocking end.
The Handmaid’s Tale universe was delivered to life when Hulu adapted Margaret Atwood‘s 1985 novel of the identical name in 2017. Atwood’s dystopian universe followed a future where low fertility rates have led women to be assigned to men for bearing children. Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Madeline Brewer, Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley and Amanda Brugel have led the solid because the show premiered in 2017.
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 need to go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is actually going to be a sequel to the show.”
Set 15 years later, The Testaments is narrated by Aunt Lydia as viewers are beat back into the dystopian future with latest characters similar to Agnes from Gilead and Daisy from Canada as they secretly gather and smuggle incriminating details about Gilead’s regime in a foreign country. 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 tip, because we all know from The Handmaid’s Tale that Gilead vanishes,” Atwood told journalists at an event in 2019. “It’s not present 200 years into the longer term, because they’re having a symposium on it. How did it collapse? How do these sorts of regimes disappear? I used to be considering exploring that.”
She continued: “There [are] some latest costume selections on this book. Human beings throughout time love outfits that let you know who you’re , like football teams and things like that. So yes, we have now some latest outfits.”
Atwood said she kept Miller updated on her plans as The Handmaid’s Tale was coming to an end.
“I read the scripts; I make notes on them,” she added. “I even have influence but no actual power. But luckily we’re in accord more often than not.”
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 what the solid has planned next — including who is about to look within the spinoff:
Elisabeth Moss
After leading The Handmaid’s Tale because it premiered in 2017, Moss joined the TV adaptation of Araminta Hall’s novel Imperfect Women. Moss stars and is an executive producer on the upcoming series, which also features Kerry Washington, Kate Mara, Joel Kinnaman and Corey Stoll.
Yvonne Strahovski
Strahovski starred in Peacock’s short-lived horror series Teacup amid The Handmaid’s Tale coming to an end.
Alexis Bledel
Bledel returned in The Handmaid’s Tale finale but has largely stayed out of the general public eye in recent times. In August 2025, Bledel was solid in Joy Will Prevail alongside Griffin Dunne, Ben Rosenfield, Molly Ephraim and Jennifer Beals.
Madeline Brewer
Along with The Handmaid’s Tale, Brewer starred within the finale season of You. She can be set to star on I Live Here Now and Anniversary.
Ann Dowd
Dowd will reprise the role of Aunt Lydia in The Testaments spinoff.
O-T Fagbenle
On the large screen, Fagbenle appears in Splitsville after The Handmaid’s Tale and on the small screen, the actor booked roles in All’s Fair and The Miniature Wife.
Max Minghella
Max Minghella Disney/Steve Wilkie
Minghella reunited with Moss to direct the movie Shell and is booked for season 4 of Industry.
Samira Wiley
Wiley stars as Cassie within the Atomic TV series.
Bradley Whitford
On the large screen, Whitford appears in For Worse, Reminders of Him and Office Romance while TV roles include #1 Comfortable Family USA, The Diplomat and Death by Lightning.
Sam Jaeger
Jaeger was in Wolf Man and The Wilderness after The Handmaid’s Tale.
Josh Charles
Josh Charles. Disney/Steve Wilkie
The actor is about to star in Fox’s medical drama Best Medicine, which is a remake of Doc Martin.