EXCLUSIVE: Ann Dowd declares that she “wasn’t ready to give up” playing the often brutally sadistic Aunt Lydia after portraying her for six seasons on the acclaimed television drama The Handmaids Tale, so she eagerly welcomed returning to her for The Testaments, the sequel to Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian chronicle that premieres Sunday on Hulu.
The Emmy Award-winning artist co-stars with Chase Infiniti — scorching in Oscars Best Picture One Battle After Another — as Agnes, with Lucy Holliday as Daisy (Blue Jean, California Schemin’), both of whom are introduced as students attending Aunt Lydia’s shiny new academy for the daughters of high commanders in Gilead.
What’s special about them will be revealed over time.
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The Testaments charts events several years on from the chilling saga that unfolded in The Handmaid’s Tale, which concluded last May.
Dowd describes the
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