The fifth season of "The Handmaid's Tale" features Yvonne Strahovski and Elizabeth Moss.
Why would a woman who was brutalized for years help a woman who is pregnant? There were a lot of choices in that barn.
In a recent interview, Elisabeth Moss explained why June helped Serena deliver her son, Noah, and it was all down to necessity.
The women are in a battle with each other, but they quickly realize that they have a bigger enemy in mind. This fascist regime has grown in power.
Moss says it's about the practicality of doing it. June knows what it's like to deliver a baby in the middle of nowhere. It takes us a second to get there in the season, but June wants Serena to be a good mom. June wants her to be kind. She is desperate to get it. June believes that Serena will find the right way and that is her greatest weakness. She won't do anything to hurt that baby. She won't allow Serena and Noah to die.
The two women know that Gilead is getting better. Moss said it was figuring out ways to make itself known. June and Serena are at risk due to this.
June is focused on necessity, practicality and survival because of this. She is forced to find a way to navigate the ever-changing power dynamics as she puts her emotions aside. She must help Serena at her most vulnerable moment by finding a way to work with her not against her. They need to work together.
She doesn't want to be Serena and she doesn't want to be Gilead right now. Moss said that she couldn't let trauma, evil, and violence make her into them. That's what I like about her. It is noble and heroic. That is heroism to me. It's not about carrying a weapon. It's not about bloodshed. I think that it is important to decide at the moment that you are going to be a better version of yourself. June is a good person despite what happened to Fred.
June and Serena have done horrible things to each other. June took pleasure in Commander Waterford's death and Serena showed no mercy. People are turned into versions of themselves they wouldn't have thought possible. They need to find a way to take down the company.
The sixth and final season of the popular drama was just renewed by the streaming service. Bruce Miller is working on a follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale called The Testaments.
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