The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss reveals why season 4 has been delayed in filming shake-up
THE Handmaid’s Tale’s fourth season has been plagued with filming delays – leaving a 2020 release in jeopardy.
The dystopian drama kicked off production earlier this year, but has been held up when it comes to filming due to a range of logistical issues.
Now Elisabeth Moss, who plays lead character June Osborne, has explained exactly what’s going on behind the scenes.
She claimed that it was the unprecedented scale and range of locations in season four that had proved to be challenging.
"Part of the reason why it's taken a little bit longer, besides just timing, is that we are making it a bit of a bigger season this year,” she told Digital Spy.
“We're really stretching the limits of our capabilities, production-wise, and we're on the move a lot," she went on.
"We're not sitting in a studio between four walls very much, so it really is a bigger season and that's taken a little [longer]. I've been in Toronto since mid-January prepping."
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Season four will pick up after June sustained a gunshot wound from a Gilead guard, after she was caught smuggling children onto a plane bound for Canada.
She provided a distraction by pelting the security team with rocks so that her fellow resistance fighters could get the kids on board the aircraft.
While plot details remain under wraps, it’s likely that season four will track the Waterfords’ prosecution in Canada as Gilead piles on the pressure for baby Nichole to be returned.
Meanwhile June will no doubt continue to pursue her firstborn daughter Hannah, while bringing the theocratic regime down from the inside.
Moss is set to star in psychological thriller The Invisible Man from February 28.
She said of her propensity for taking dark roles, despite her sunny disposition in real life: "They're way more fun. I wish the narrative was that I was like some dark, serious person.
“I wish I was more like Joaquin Phoenix or something, but I just, I just find them really fun!"
The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 is expected to hit Hulu and Channel 4 late 2020.