AUNT Lydia is facing a "massive catastrophe" in season 4 of The Handmaid's Tale.
They discovered the Handmaid oppressor had been a lonely lawyer and then a primary school teacher in her former life before becoming a government-trained Aunt. Set 15 years after the first novel, The Testament, released yesterday, is told from the three women's perspectives. “And that affects the approach in terms of where her mind is going. She’s very savvy, very much a player and knows the politics.
She explained to Stylist magazine: “When you play a character, you often think, ‘I wonder what happens in the future? I wonder where she will go?’, but most of the time you don’t know.
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