If Hulu's HandmaidsTale often feels all too real, it's not by accident
often feels all too real — and it's not by accident.
"There are so many things where you can guess [how it would play out]," says Miller, "but there are some things where there are too many factors to put your mind around, too many factors of trauma. What is it like to have your child taken away and kept away by the state? [For instance], in our first season, we had a female genital mutilation story, and that was the first time [Gitow and I] talked.
Miller leans on Emily's arrival in Canada as a further example of close collaboration with Gitow and the UN. In the first scene after she's crossed the border, Emily arrives at a hospital, flanked by a guard who is holding her handmaid cloak in an evidence bag. "It's evidence of rape," says Miller. "We don't say anything about it, but it's there, it's real, and it's what would happen.
"The way we think about it, it's not brainstorming. It seems like brainstorming, but it's much more directed than that," he says. "We focus very much by starting on: 'Where does June as a character end up? Emotionally, where does she end up in her journey as a human being and as a mother?' Then we ask, 'What happens next?' We're very much driven by June. We're very much gifted by Elisabeth Moss who adds so many layers to this story.
"The UN went through our experience a long time ago," he says. "They guessed what they thought they should do, and they did it. But they've refined it in the field with actuality. Why should we try to invent something that somebody else already tried to invent and then changed based on reality? We should at least talk to those people.
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