With Lange starring in Feud: Bette and Joan on FX and Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu and Channel 4, Lange says Donald Trump coming into power has lent an edge to the shows, given the issues they deal with in an era where the US president seems to be cracking down on women’s rights.

Lange, 68, said: “We started shooting [Feud] in September, before the election, and Ryan [Murphy, showrunner] said he was thinking, ‘Well, we’ll make this piece about misogyny, sexism, ageism, all of this, but come the beginning of the year, it might just be ironic.’ But of course […]

“I think it's more relevant now than it could have possibly been at any other time. I don't think we've ever seen this much misogyny, this much sexism, and I think the fact that we have this story that is set in a particular period, but obviously Hollywood in the 1960s, is just a microcosm of the greater atmosphere that we are all living through now.”

Read the full interview on hollywoodreporter.com.

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