Hulu is expanding The Handmaid’s Tale universe with The Testaments spinoff — but will Elisabeth Moss reprise her role as June?
Moss, 43, was asked about the possibility of returning to Gilead during the Thursday, March 19, episode of The View, to which she replied, “I couldn’t tell you if I was! It’s been really cool. [Producing the show] means I didn’t have to say goodbye to the world, which I was very happy about.”
The actress also praised Chase Infiniti, who plays her onscreen daughter.
“Obviously, getting to be part of anything Chase is part of is so exciting and such an honor. It’s cool,” Moss said while calling The Testaments a show “for people who love the show and love Handmaid’s, but it’s also for people who’ve never seen Handmaid’s. No offense taken, it’s just a little bit different.”
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women to be assigned to men for bearing children. The series aired from 2017 to 2025.
The Testaments, which premieres April 8, is set three to four years later. Ann Dowd‘s Aunt Lydia serves as the narrator as viewers are thrust back into the dystopian future. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Girls” to infiltrate Canada in an attempt to smuggle incriminating information about Gilead’s regime, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source within Gilead.
In addition to Infiniti, 25, and Dowd, The Testaments stars Eva Foote, Rowan Blanchard, Kira Guloien, Amy Seimetz and Brad Alexander. Birva Pandya, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Mattea Conforti, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Mabel Li and Isolde Ardies make up the rest of the cast.
Creator Bruce Miller previously opened up about how closely the series would follow Atwood’s book The Testaments, hinting that “it’s not going to track precisely” to the novel.
“Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters,” he told TVLine in 2022. “We had to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to have to go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is certainly going to be a sequel to the show.”
More recently, Infiniti, 25, revealed she didn’t meet Moss until she was nearly done filming The Testaments.
“I actually didn’t get to meet Elisabeth Moss really until the end [of filming],” Infiniti told People in January.
Infiniti recalled Moss’ advice to her, adding, “But she kind of immediately after I met her, wrapped me into a big hug and was kind of like, ‘You got this. You got this. OK? You got it.’”
The Testaments premieres on Hulu April 8.
