The Handmaid’s Story star Ann Dowd is optimistic about new sequel sequence The Testaments’ probabilities of a second season.
The Testaments teased in trailer from Disney+
The Testaments star Ann Dowd has issued a promising replace on the upcoming Handmaid’s Story sequel’s potential second season.
Emmy-winning actress Dowd is returning as Aunt Lydia within the new spin-off on Hulu and Disney+, which is ready a number of years after the occasions of the unique sequence.
Primarily based on the novels by Margaret Atwood, the sequel sequence premiering on Wednesday, eighth April stars Chase Infiniti as Agnes MacKenzie, the daughter of insurgent June Osborne (performed by Elisabeth Moss).
When Canadian teen Daisy (Lucy Halliday) arrives at Lydia’s elite preparatory college for future wives, Agnes slowly begins to unearth the darkish secrets and techniques on the coronary heart of Gilead.
Speaking to Deadline about reprising her iconic function, Dowd mentioned: “I can’t get there quick sufficient. That’s the reality. It’s great to play a task like this.”
She additionally added it has been a “privilege” portraying the character for seven years, having originated the function within the very first season of The Handmaid’s Story.
Referring to Atwood’s Booker Award-winning supply materials, Dowd acknowledges that her efficiency might have had a hand within the writer’s insistence to showrunner Bruce Miller that Lydia wasn’t killed off, quoted within the New York Instances as saying the character is “too good to kill”.
“I feel she determined she was going to put in writing a sequel, and possibly getting the character she needs to be alive in her e book,” Dowd defined.
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“So I say humbly, I feel she had Lydia in thoughts, which I’m so grateful for. I’m wondering if she would have been killed? However anyway, very grateful that she didn’t. We didn’t die.”
As for Lydia’s destiny within the sequel sequence, followers should hold tuning in every Wednesday till the finale on twenty seventh Might to find if one of the vital advanced antagonists on TV will survive one other season.
Nonetheless, when grilled about the way forward for The Testaments, Dowd might have already let slip that Lydia survives as she confirmed she’s preserving her late 2026 schedule free in case she must return to set.
Ann Dowd is leaving her schedule free to come back again for season two (Picture: HULU)
“Properly, we haven’t been picked up but. I feel it is going to be,” she predicted.
“I’m fairly positive that that is going to be picked up… in order that they’re within the author’s room now. I imply, not this second, however they’ve begun writing it.
“So, I feel it’s quickly to come back. I’m positive they’d wish to have a number of seasons. There’s quite a bit to inform.”
Followers can make sure the longevity of the hit dystopian drama by tuning in when the primary season of The Testaments launches in just some days’ time.
The Testaments premieres Wednesday, eighth April on Disney+.
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