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chance to get revenge and justice... With the episodes that settle the fates of our heroes continuing to be aired, we speak with Elizabeth Moss, who’s a winner of numerous awards that include Gold- en Globes and Emmys. We start by ask- ing her if she can reveal how her love sto- ry concludes – in the world of the series, of course! I would like to ask you about the show’s love triangle, because I think most people now just want June to be with Luke. And yet she nonetheless returns to Nick, right? - I like to talk about the love triangle. I think there’s a special bond that’s de- veloped between them in this environ- ment of war, and that differs from any- thing she’ll experience with anyone else, including Luke. I think that her and Nick went through a life experience in Gile- ad that’s impossible to understand if you haven’t lived it yourself. That’s the thing that connects them. They have to re- build their relationship, but as the kind of people they are now, and not as the people they used to be, because they’ve both gone through massive changes. As you can conclude from my answer, I’m not going to tell you which one she ac- tually prefers, because I think that’s pre- cisely why it’s a triangle. It would be bor- ing if she just picked one and had a happy and healthy relationship. Who’d want to watch that? What message or lesson do you want people to take away from your character’s story or the series in general? - You know, I’m personally very inspired by June and the fact that she never gives up on her fight and her quest to create a secure environment and a future for her children. That’s her goal. That’s her dream. That’s the reason she endures,
- My God, no. Not in the slightest. I re- member during the first season just wanting people to watch it. You can’t pre- dict that – you just hope audiences will embrace it and that we can keep shoot- ing. I think we’re now a little more accus- tomed to that relevance and the fact that the show has generally become a part of the culture, part of the way people per- ceive the world. But we were initially just hoping that people would understand the message. What has The Handmaid's Tale series meant to you, both personally and professionally? - It completely changed my life and ca- reer as an artist, if I can put it like that. I’ve been acting for a very long time, more than 30 years, and this series was the first project on which I became a pro- ducer and learned how that works. I re- ally embraced that as a serious profes- sional pursuit that I’m now developing in parallel with acting. And then, of course, I also became a director. I had never previously directed anything, ex- cept maybe something in the backyard with friends, while I’ve now amassed 12 hours of television content that’s actual- ly watched by people all over the world. As such, my life is now completely differ- ent in a professional sense. I don’t real- ly like the word “career”, because to me it’s all art and something I love to do, but from a technical perspective it is how I make a living. This series also changed everything for me on a personal lev- el. The new roles I took on taught me a lot about how to be a leader, how to lead a TV crew and how to lead a cast. I was number one on a call sheet for the first time ever, and I learned a lot through that. I think I’ve grown a lot as a person throughout these nine years of working on the series. It’s certainly been a big and exciting life journey for me.
and it’s very inspiring to me, and I hope it is to others too. I also think this show can be inspiring on two levels: on a broad- er political level, but also on a personal, everyday level. I hope our story will help someone and will give them the courage to stand up for themselves or for what they believe in. Do you also have the sense that you have some goal in life? Is there any issue or problem confronting women today that’s particularly important to you personally? - I became a mother recently and it’s now impossible for me to distinguish June’s goal from my own. I think creating a se- cure future for my child is the most im- portant thing to me now. That’s an hon- est answer. And that really is the most important thing to me now. I think I've always understood June's goals at an in- tellectual level, which is my job as an ac- tress, producer and director, but I now al- so understand it at a deeper, emotional level, which I didn’t have before. I think it’s important for people, and not on- ly women, to create a future for our chil- dren that’s the way we want it to be, and that’s secure, where they can be free and can be true to themselves. Whatever that means to them. This show has grown in popularity over the years to become a real cultural phenomenon worldwide. Did you expect it to have such an impact?
Bilo bi dosadno kada bi Džun odabrala između Luka i Nika i imala srećnu i zdravu vezu. Ko bi to želeo da gleda? It would be boring if June chose between Luke and Nick and had a happy and healthy relationship. Who’d want to watch that?
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