Chase Infiniti will comply with in her onscreen mom Elisabeth Moss’ rebellious footsteps within the new “The Handmaid’s Story” spinoff.
Within the official trailer for “The Testaments,” launched Thursday by Hulu, Infiniti’s Agnes, the delivery daughter of Mayday insurgent June Osborne (Moss), should navigate an elite and stringent faculty for future wives run by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
“I’m probably not certain what yr it was,” Infiniti as Agnes famous originally of the trailer as glimpses of her (seemingly) charmed life in Gilead flashed throughout the display screen.
“I do know I nonetheless had my dollhouse — it regarded identical to our actual home,” Agnes continued, offering viewers with an summary of her life within the patriarchal theocracy, which additionally included Commanders and Marthas alike. “Some dolls have been all the time busy. Others have been all the time doing the vital work. There was somewhat woman doll — that’s me.”
Whereas Agnes, who June named Hannah at delivery, mirrored on the enjoyment she had rising up in Gilead, she acknowledged that all the pieces she was taught to just accept and obey, was a facade.
Watch the trailer under.
“Again then, we really believed on this world. I assume it’s simpler to just accept a narrative than consider that the individuals round you’re monsters,” Agnes mentioned because the trailer confirmed the younger girls approaching three lifeless hanging our bodies.
Because the footage went on, Aunt Lydia entrusted religious and dutiful Agnes to assist Canadian newcomer Daisy (Lucy Halliday) get settled in her new dwelling. However as The Cranberries will be heard singing within the background, one thing’s not “fairly because it appears.” Particularly, Daisy has arrived with a mission, to “save these ladies.”
Earlier than lengthy, Agnes seems to query all the pieces she has been taught, touting change as “a great factor.”
“It was time for us to vary issues,” she added in a voiceover on the finish.
“The Testaments” comes out on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on April 8.
Right here’s a synopsis of the present, per Hulu: “An evolution of ‘The Handmaid’s Story,’ ‘The Testaments’ relies on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical identify and is a dramatic coming-of-age story set in Gilead. The sequence follows younger teenagers Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a brand new arrival and convert from past Gilead’s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory faculty for future wives, a spot the place obedience is instilled brutally and all the time with divine justification, their bond turns into the catalyst that may upend their previous, their current and their future.”
The sequence stars Infiniti, Halliday, Dowd, Mabel Lee, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien.
The sequence is created by showrunner and government producer Bruce Miller and government produced by Warren Littlefield, Elisabeth Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Mike Barker, who can even direct the primary three episodes and finale. “The Testaments” is produced by MGM Tv and twentieth Tv.
