Yvonne Strahovski ('The Handmaid's Tale') on how a surprise pregnancy has changed Serena Joy 

I’m glad she did, I wanted her to get distracted by something to take her attention off Nicole

Omigod I didn't even realize that!

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haha yes, I was thinking about it just another episode :D wow she really forgot about Nicole :D

You are so right!!!!

I agree, that’s such a beautiful scene & it really shows what a huge & beautiful heart Rita has. She has so much compassion for others, even after all she’s been through. We almost forget that, as person who IS property of Gilead, Rita has had plenty of abuse herself but she manages to always be there for others & somehow sees the best in everyone. I loved when the show started to portray Rita as more loving & more caring than she was in the first & the even second season. The way she was kind of cold, kind of ‘I’ll do my job, you do yours & just stay out of my way’ & then she turns into someone who is much warmer than she appeared when we first got to know her as ‘just another Martha’ in Gilead. She’s an AMAZING character. She’s one of my favorites, so warm & caring, yet so strong. Let’s face it, Rita fucking rocks! I’ll never forget the scene when she gets off the plane & meets Luke, I think we were all crying our eyes out! “June did this, YOUR June did this”! 🥲

Isn't just books that they aren't allowed to read? Because the handmaidens get lists for shopping and the like. I think it's the act of read a book of purpose. If some one pushes a sign in her face and she knows how to read she can't help but read it. 🤣

@@pointeddown Like in the Dark Ages, only the Government Leaders are allowed to read the Bible.

@@pointeddown None of the products in Loaves and Fishes have writing on the labels, it's all pictures so there'd be no reading involved (blew my mind when I read about + observed that!). That's different from signs in the street obvs but just saying it's not just books that are prohibited, at least for Handmaids.

And to play off that, the sign of a phenomenal actress/actor is making the viewers then feel bad for you in the next moment. I think that's what I love/hate about Serena Joy so much. Yvonne plays her with this kernel of humanity under all the immorality, and when she chooses to bring it up to the surface, it's so easy to see the complexity of the character. Some of the worst characters in fiction are likeable even despite the fact that they're incredibly destructive. She's one of those vile characters that definitely still sees herself as the hero of her own story. You can see it in her reaction to being hated by others.... this sort of self-righteousness that completely rebuffs personal reflection.

Yes, she’s played some very different characters in different shows/movies & she’s one of the few actresses that, when you see her being interviewed like this, you just see Yvonne, you don’t see her as Serena at all. She is definitely not typecast & I think that’s hard to do, especially with the character who is so strong like Serena joy.

The interviewers are Australian so is she.

@@justloz8626 Okay.

We love you too, Peter D!

That popped up for me too.

It is satisfying for me . Hope we see that soon

@@samdj717 i doubt she’ll become a handmaid. it would be poor taste for the show and wouldn’t make any sense

@@jacobjacquin It wouldn’t be if Fred were to stay in Canada and Serena would come back to Gilead right? Because then she’d just be a husband less woman with a baby. (Idk if it makes actual sense the laws in Gilead surprise me sometimes 😂)

Getting released in June, not sure what date though

I’m just gonna say this... I’m a conservative, but I would never cheer on Fred and Serena Waterford. And I don’t know one other conservative who would. I love this series, but I don’t like the way it automatically assumes that Christians would be in favor of a real-life-Gilead. It’s really frustrating.

In the first season, the Republic of Gilead destroyed all religious institutions in favor of their SCIENCE-BASED PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

I bet he’s gonna be the father of June’s too…..

@@Masshole4life I hope not. Hadn't Fred had handmaids before and what about the brothel? Why would it have taken so long for he and Serena to get pregnant?

@@appylee9942 It was mentioned in the show that none of the women at Jezebels were capable of getting pregnant (that’s why they aren’t handmaids, too) And getting pregnant, for some couples, is easier when they aren’t “trying”

When Fred and Serena took a trip (alone) to Canada last season, they slept together. So yes, he’s the father.

I always thought Serena was shot in the ovaries (before the Gilead Republic) so she couldn't physically have a child- that's why to me she always looked so hurt.

Yes, she is-I did a search.

What are you talking about? Norway, Sweden, Denmark are some of the socialist countries in the world. Socialism is working great for their countries, isn’t it?

Oh, American perception of socialism is such an utterly sad lack of knowledge!

How is Gilead a socialist society?

@@fatimah941 You need to study socialism, watch and think. Socialists don't think. They just repeat the same think they learned in the brainwashing process and wait for the opinion of their leaders.

@@reacionario2026 You didn't answer my question and you assumed a lack of knowledge on socialism on my part.

If the show runners are going for any type of poetic symmetry over the course of the series, when Serena delivers a healthy baby boy, they’ll give it to June.

@@cleverlilvixen wouldn't June hate that??! Forever plagued by Serana's baby and memories of trauma in that household, at Serena's hand. Give the baby to someone he'd be a blessing to and return Serena to Gilead as a handmaid (being a fertile woman after all... 😉)