‘We have Been Lied To’ (Unique)

“Motion is the antidote to despair,” Whitford passionately tells TooFab solely. “And do not anticipate a world the place democracy is inevitable.”

Bradley Whitford is adamant we live in an actual life “Handmaid’s episode.”

Whereas strolling the crimson carpet at PaleyFest LA for a farewell salute to his tv collection The Handmaid’s Story, the 65-year-old actor warned viewers to not ignore what’s at the moment taking place round them in actual life.

“I used to be occupied with this yesterday,” Whitford informed TooFab solely. “This present began at a time in 2016, when the thought of Dobbs being overturned was absurd. We have been lied to by the members of the Supreme Court docket who perjured themselves once they mentioned it was settled regulation.”

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Whitford — a passionate Democrat who spoke throughout a Harris/Walz rally in 2024 — is referring to the Supreme Court docket justices who overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, regardless of emphasizing it was settled precedent underneath oath. After the reversal, complete abortion bans went into impact in 12 US states and restricted entry to the process in one other seven.

“Now, we live in a world the place, final 12 months — this isn’t a made up statistic from a pinko lefty man from Hollywood — final 12 months, now this 12 months it is extra, final 12 months there have been 64,000 pregnant rape victims in america with no entry to the well being care that they deserve,” Whitford continued.

“These are individuals who had been raped by their drunk uncles. It is actually a Handmaid’s episode,” he added.

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As for what Whitford needs viewers members to take from the present, amid right now’s political local weather — he mentioned the collection is “a name to motion.”

“I need folks to take what’s so inspiring about [Elisabeth Moss‘ character] June, the understanding that despair is a luxurious our kids can not afford and that, motion is the antidote to despair,” he continued. “And do not anticipate a world the place democracy is inevitable and the place greed disappears and the place misogyny is not part of the right-wing white Christian nationalist agenda. Do not anticipate that and maintain combating and let or not it’s a name to motion.”

Whitford stars as Commander Joseph Lawrence within the collection, which explores themes of powerless girls in a patriarchal society, lack of feminine individuality and the suppression of reproductive rights in a fictional state often called the Republic of Gilead — all of which Whitford’s character helped create.

The collection is coming to an finish, with its finale season starting in April. Trying again at what the present’s forged and crew have created, Whitford is “proud.”

“It has been a tremendous factor working with Lizzie once more,” he mentioned, gushing about Moss, who additionally directs episodes, being on the helm of the collection. “Her management all through this factor has been superb. And the enjoyment of type of reconnecting together with her and being impressed by her. She makes enjoyable of technique actors as a result of that is not the way in which she works. However there was an unimaginable type of … technique performing, in the way in which that she actually took company over the storytelling within the present and that was an actual pleasure to behold.”

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Moss leads the collection as June Osbourne, the primary protagonist of the Hulu collection, who dangers her life to rescue kids and different people from the oppressive regime of Gilead. Impressively, Moss has been weaving out and in of character to sit down within the director’s chair over just a few episodes previously and is the director for 4 within the last season.

“I’ve by no means seen anyone work this difficult. She’s doing Sophie’s Alternative, the collection. It is insane. Emotionally. And she or he’s directing what number of? 4 out of ten? It is insane. It is utterly insane. I’ve by no means seen something prefer it,” he recalled of his time on set for Season 6.

“She is probably the most dedicated storyteller. It clearly nourishes her. However I’ve by no means seen anyone work that arduous,” he informed TooFab solely.

The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 begins on Hulu on April 8, 2025 with the primary three episodes premiering that day.