In The Testaments, Lucy Halliday plays Daisy, a Toronto teen turned undercover Mayday agent at a Gilead girls finishing school. She’s the character that brought Elisabeth Moss‘ June Osborne back into the franchise — as June is Daisy’s handler. Moss’ onscreen return was a casting coup that was kept secret until Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel series premiered. (Daisy was also code-named “Danielle” in the script to keep Halliday’s character under wraps.)
In Margaret Atwood‘s The Testaments novel on which the series is based, however, the Daisy character is very different. In that story, (spoiler from the book!) Daisy is actually June’s second daughter, who Handmaid’s Tale viewers know as baby Nichole/Holly. But when creator Bruce Miller and his team decided to jump the sequel series ahead only four years from the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, instead of 15 years like the book, they had to make this key character change. So
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