Elisabeth Moss and Gillian Anderson on Spending Their 20s on TV, Playing Margaret Thatcher and the Post-Trump ‘Handmaid’s Tale’

When Gillian Anderson and Elisabeth Moss met virtually to talk about their respective roles as Margaret Thatcher on Netflix’s “The Crown” and June Osborne on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” they discussed the benefits of being on long-running television shows, directing and characters they’d like to play again. Anderson detailed how she’d built Thatcher from the inside out, and Moss mused about how “Handmaid’s” might feel different in the Biden era.

And they discovered that they both had come of age as young actors — and young women — between the ages of 23 and 32 on “The X-Files” and “Mad Men” , and were delighted by the coincidence.I heard you guys shut down for a bit on “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and were just about to shoot one you were directing?I actually had already started. I’d done about a day and a half, and I’d done all the prep, and then, yeah — we shut down from March 13 until September.

mouth, and how I hold my mouth? I actually found that, yes, that was enough. And that informed how I spoke. It was actually a gift to have made that choice, because that informed everything.Was there something that you found in her story that was untold?My partner, Peter Morgan [“The Crown” creator], had expressed that we had some similarities, just in terms of our work ethic; I’m quite a perfectionist.

With “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the first season premiered right after Trump came into office, and there’s been a lot written about all the parallels of his America and his presidency to Gilead. I was wondering whether you thought that “Handmaid’s Tale” will hit differently with Biden as president?We tried this season to take our show to a new place, to fulfill some of the promises that we were making over the past couple of years, and we really tried to imbue a sense of hope and a sense of triumph.

Of course, it’s still “The Handmaid’s Tale,” so the stuff hits the fan eventually, as always. But we really wanted to focus on a new day, and a new era in the show.

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