How much of the new season will be a reflection of current real-life events?

I always think about how parallel the show is to real life. Specifically, in season two we saw women separated from their daughters. Then kids got separated from their parents at the [US and Mexico] border. It’s a little eerie, because the storyline was obviously written before it happened. I don’t think the writers are trying to line up with what’s happening in the world, but one thing Margaret [Atwood] always says is that of everything she wrote in the book, there’s nothing that has not happened to women in history before. That has always stuck with me – what one human being can do to another. So, honestly, I want to go in that writers’ room and tell them to please be careful what they write. I do not agree with this prophetic writing.

There is something very Gilead-ian about the way restrictive abortion laws are being passed in American states like Georgia and Alabama at the moment.

Yeah, it’s kind of unbelievable. In the beginning when we started production we were still in an Obama presidency. Everything has changed so much from then to now and it’s happened so fast. It’s really changed the way I think about my work and the way people receive the work. It has an extra level of importance because of the time it’s being shown in, and I feel really lucky to be a part of it. But I also feel unsettled.

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