Hulu’s highly-anticipated The Testaments has put in loads of work to make their solid look very completely different on The Handmaid’s Story spinoff than they do in actual life.
Based mostly on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical identify, The Handmaid’s Story, which aired from 2017 to 2025, passed off in a dystopian future the place low fertility charges led girls to be assigned to males for bearing kids.
After The Handmaid’s Story‘s ultimate season was introduced in 2022, creator Bruce Miller stepped down as showrunner to work on The Testaments as govt 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 exactly,” Miller instructed TVLine on the time. “Margaret writes these completely deliciously particular characters. 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 present.”
The Testaments, which is ready 15 years later, is narrated by Ann Dowd‘s Aunt Lydia as viewers are thrust again into the dystopian future with characters similar to Agnes from Gilead and Daisy from Canada — as they secretly collect and smuggle incriminating details about Gilead’s regime in a foreign country. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Women” to infiltrate Canada, whereas Aunt Lydia acts as a covert supply inside Gilead.
“Though I couldn’t proceed with the story of Offred, I may proceed with three different folks involved in these occasions and inform the story of the start of the top, as a result of we all know from The Handmaid’s Story that Gilead vanishes,” Atwood instructed journalists at an occasion in 2019. “It’s now not current 200 years into the long run, as a result of they’re having a symposium on it. How did it collapse? How do these sorts of regimes disappear? I used to be fascinated with exploring that.”
She continued: “There [are] some new costume selections on this e-book. Human beings all through time love outfits that let you know who you’re taking a look at, like soccer groups and issues like that. So sure, we now have some new outfits.”
Along with Dowd, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Rowan Blanchard, Amy Seimetz, Mabel Li, Brad Alexander and Mattea Conforti make up the remainder of the solid. Hulu confirmed that The Testaments will premiere in April 2026.
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