Bradley Whitford Have been in the business for film and television for decades, but have never been so difficult to make money from acting while you still have respect for those who sign your check. His latest project, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, which premiered for its sixth and last season The past week is produced and distributed by Hulu, owned by Disney, one of the companies that is currently scaling back their DEI initiatives in response to directives conducted by the Trump administration. When the show debuted In 2017, it came in the wake of women’s march and before the #metoo movement, but what was once intended to read as the dystopian now comes over as a blast warning, one that Whitford does not worry through, even when it comes to those who actually finance this project.
“You know, Misogyny is on the reptilian brain stem for these right -wing nationalists,” Whitford said I A new interview with Variety. “It’s punishable. And, MANI am cursed on all the people I work for. Like, ‘fucking. SPEAK. UP.'”
Whitford explained how these companies pretend to show concern for those who produce their product, claim that they care about their “access to health care”, but none of them speak that women do not have access to abortion in many states or drive for a federal law that guarantees the right to an abortion after waiting for Roe v. Wade. He particularly showed Ire for former chief Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon Produced the LGBT-friendly show “Transparent”, but today remains silent when it comes to the current attacks against those shown in the series.
“I don’t want to be a punk that attacks,” said Whitford, “but I would really like to ask Jeff Bezos – who, when I worked on” transparent “, talked about the importance of supporting this vulnerable society that has been transformed into a political football -“What the hell is happening here?!”
When he sits back to the story “The Handmaid’s Tale” shows, Whitford is really worried that this may be where we are on our way, provided we are not in many ways already.
“A year ago, there were 65,000 pregnant rape victims without access to abortion care,” he says. “Now is the way up from it. This is not a drilling. It is not a story. This is happening“He told Variety.” Margaret Atwood said she almost scrapped the book a couple of times because it seemed too far -reaching. It turns out that Margaret Atwood is an optimist. ”
At the same time, the book and the show both prove that the only answer to these types of attacks against democracy and physical autonomy must be met with a powerful resistance. Whitford in the end hopes that this is the message that connects to viewers, as is those in C-Sits.
“We feel this despair because we feel that we have no agency over what is happening to us in this country. And June is a reminder that your agency will not be given to you: You have to fight for it,” said Whitford, referring to Elizabeth Moss’s protagonist, June Osborne. “It’s part of what is so wonderful with that character – she encounters people to embrace the power they have.”
“Handmaid’s Tale” streams at Hulu with new episodes that are released every Tuesday.
