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Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller on 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Author Margaret Atwood realizes that Hulu's adaptation of her Dystopian 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale has gotten a huge PR boost, thanks to a turn of events that hardly seemed possible when work on the series was underway. Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller talk about adapting the story for television and the eerie timeliness of the new series.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenMargaret Atwood has seen many adaptations of her novel The Handmaid's Tale since the book was first published more than 30 years ago. The most recent one -- a new series on Hulu -- is making a lot of noise, and feels like the most timely adaptation yet. Atwood and showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller tell us about the moment they realized their series might be more relevant than they initially expected and what they've got in mind for Season Two.
Photo: Behind the scenes with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale. (George Kraychyk/Hulu)
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In the new Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale , Elisabeth Moss plays Offred, a woman struggling to survive and stay sane in a future under a totalitarian government where a polluted environment has rendered most women infertile. The few who can get pregnant are enslaved and forced to bear children for the most prominent ruling families.
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