One of The Handmaid ’s Tale ’s greatest strengths was how it expanded the book ’s first - person narrative into a more detailed populace , utter with backstories for some of the lesser - known characters . alas , one of the most interesting villains of the season has n’t gotten the same discussion , but the woman who won an Emmy for playing her has already issue forth up with her possible backstory .
Actress Ann Dowd recently shared some details about the story she came up with for Aunt Lydia , the lead educator at the Red Center Offred is forced to go to after being captured by Gileadean force . Even though the character and public presentation were notable enough to warrant Dowd an Emmy for good endorse Actress in a Drama Series , very picayune has actually been revealed about her . It was one of my bigger issues with the first time of year , and somethingI Bob Hope is rectifiedin the next one .
Since Aunt Lydia was n’t pay a backstory in the first time of year , Dowd assure Variety that she went to showrunner Bruce Miller and asked if he had any approximation of what it could be . His answer : “ I believe she was a teacher , ” something Dowd said made a mountain of sense , summate that she may have teach at an all - girl ’ academy . She then described the tragical tarradiddle she ’s since made up for Dowd , about a young adult female who was mistreated when she was younger , became hardened against those who represented her misunderstanding , and found Gilead as the perfect mercantile establishment for her anger and newfound piousness .
perchance she catch fraught at 14 and her parent eschew her and take that infant , and she tell to God , “ If you just give me one more chance I ’ll never be bad again . I ’ll do everything you ask of me . ” Why do people go to hard-core divinity fudge ? There has to be a grounds . I ’m generalizing here , but if Lydia is a teacher , and they ’re make fun of her with her prospicient skirts or whatever it is and disrespecting her always , and everywhere she looks there are girls in low cut shirt . They ’re going directly to hell ; they ’ve got no kinship to God . And in our world , the tier of befoulment is so uttermost with birthrates falling . So I think she give-up the ghost all - in .
Dowd added that she ’d love for Aunt Lydia ’s story to be expanded in the next season . As to whether she ’d be disappoint if it turned out to be different than how she imagined , she sound out she commit Miller and the writer to make the good storey possible for The Handmaid ’s Tale . However , she does conceive she and Miller “ are pretty much on the same page . ”
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