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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Madeline Brewer on Rising Above Online Bullies: 'I Didn't Expect Them to Call Me Ugly Because I'm Not' (Exclusive)
Madeline Brewer opens up to PEOPLE about online criticism she received after starring in the final season of You The Handmaid's Tale actress says some comments from online trolls "triggered" her But she shares how she found the strength to rise above hurtful messagesOnline trolls may come with the territory of being an actor, but Madeline Brewer isn't letting it get her down. In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, the actress, 33, opens up about the unexpected criticism she's received on her physical appearance after starring as Bronte aka Louise Flannery in the final season of You. When asked if she was surprised to see how she was received by the fan base, Brewer admits, "A little bit. I'll be honest, I didn't expect people to like Brontë, but I didn't expect them to call me ugly, because I'm not." "I get that I'm not everybody's cup of tea, but I'm not ugly," she says. "I had thought that the largest fan base of this show is women, young women, and I never anticipated the amount of misogyny to be fired at me." Brewer joined the final season of the cultural juggernaut, Netflix's You, as Bronte, the 'final girl' to serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley). As a "huge fan" of the show, she says she was "excited to be a part of that world." But she didn't anticipate the fans' reaction. "I think that when people are confronted with that misogyny and that deconstruction of their hero, it makes them upset," Brewer says of Joe's fate. "Especially pisses them off that it was a woman. It was a woman to do it. And it was also a new woman, and a woman that they might not find attractive." "So all of that to deal with, they can't help but get on their cell phones and comment on my pictures and go, 'Oh, you're so ugly. You look like a goblin,'" she continues. "And I'm like, 'Girl, lighten up. I'm not ugly.'" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Brewer says she was bullied as a child, and comments suggesting she needed plastic surgery 'triggered' her. 'I feel very grateful that this didn't happen at an earlier time in my life. If this had happened when I was 25, I would have crumbled because I wasn't in therapy yet," she says. "Being in my 30s, I don't care. I knew I could handle it.' The Handmaid's Tale star is aware criticism is 'par for the course' of being an actor, and 'now I don't give a f---,' she says. 'As long as they're doing it to me and not somebody who can't handle it, bring it on." Brewer says when she needs some extra reassurance, she looks to her fiancé, cinematographer Jack Thompson-Roylance. "He just thinks the sun shines out of my butt, and he thinks that I'm the most beautiful woman in the whole world," she says with a smile. "He's actually the only opinion that really matters to me." The two are gearing up for a July wedding in England. As a 'perfectionist,' Brewer wants everything to go smoothly to pull off her vision of 'Bridgerton by day and Saltburn at night.' But she has no nerves when it comes to saying 'I do.' 'That's my dude,' she says. 'It's going to be fun.' You is streaming now on Netflix. Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
You star Madeline Brewer claps back at nasty trolls who compared her to a GOBLIN: 'I'm not ugly'
Starring in one of Netflix 's most popular shows meant Madeline Brewer gained immense attention in recent months - both good and bad. The 33-year-old joined the final season of the show You as Brontë, the women who plays a crucial role in bringing down serial killer Joe Goldberg. But the actress has now admitted that she got hit with a wave of insulting comments after the beloved series premiered last month. And she admitted that the hate wasn't geared at her performance on the series but rather, her appearance. During a recent interview with People, she admitted that fans of the show were calling her 'ugly' online, as she clapped back at the nasty trolls. 'I didn't expect people to like Brontë,' she admitted. 'But I also didn't expect people to call me ugly. Because I'm not.' She went on to describe her shock at receiving the negative comments considering that a majority of the viewership seemed to be women. 'I thought the show's fanbase was mostly young women,' she continued. 'I never anticipated the amount of misogyny that would be fired at me.' Brewer, who describes herself as a longtime fan of the show, said she believed the backlash likely came from people not wanting to see their 'hero' (referring to Joe, the murderous antagonist of the show) taken down - especially not by a woman. 'It especially pisses them off that it was a woman. A new woman. A woman they might not find attractive,' she said. 'So they get on their phones and comment on my pictures like, "You look like a goblin." And I'm just like… girl, lighten up. I'm not ugly.' The hate hit a nerve for Brewer, who said she was bullied growing up so she found some of the particularly mean comments 'triggering.' But she added that therapy and age had changed her perspective on how she deals with hate. 'If this had happened when I was 25, I would have crumbled,' she admitted. 'Now that I'm in my 30s? I don't give a f**k.' That confidence doesn't come from just anywhere. She explained that while some comments triggered her, therapy and being in her 30s really saved her from caring about what other people had to say about her Brewer said her biggest source of reassurance is her fiancé, cinematographer Jack Thompson-Roylance. 'He just thinks the sun shines out of my butt,' she shared. 'He thinks I'm the most beautiful woman in the whole world. 'His is the only opinion that really matters to me.' Brewer went on to say that the trolls can do what they want. She explained that criticism essentially comes with the territory when you become an actor. 'As long as they're doing it to me and not someone who can't handle it - bring it on,' she concluded.
Gizmodo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
How ‘The Handmaid's Tale' Made Sure at Least One Character Got a Genuinely Happy Ending
Madeline Brewer's Janine sure went through a hell of a lot of hell over six seasons on Hulu's dystopian drama. In the first episode of the first season of The Handmaid's Tale, viewers met Janine, played by Madeline Brewer. Like June, the main character played by Elisabeth Moss, she's been abducted by Gilead and is now in the Red Center, where new handmaids are forced to learn their horrifying new duties. When Janine talks back, she's hauled off for a biblical punishment: the loss of her eye. That set the tone for Janine's harrowing journey throughout the series—but she never lost her spirit, and in the end, the show rewarded her with an ecstatically happy last moment. Her missing eye—often, but not always, concealed with her trademark patch—was more or less the only constant for Janine over six seasons. After being the first handmaid in June's group to give birth, she entertained fantasies of keeping her baby girl. Of course, that is not the way of Gilead, and Charlotte (Janine's name for her daughter; her captors, Commander Putnam and his wife Naomi, called her Angela) was ripped from her arms, almost literally. After that, she held different roles with varying levels of freedom—at one point she ended up in exile, shoveling toxic waste in the dreaded Colonies; at another, she survived a bombing after briefly escaping Gilead for Chicago. In the last seasons of The Handmaid's Tale, we saw her assisting Aunt Lydia in the Red Center, building on a complicated relationship rooted in power, guilt, shared trauma, and the occasional attempt at kindness. In season six, former handmaid Janine is forced into a different kind of sexual slavery, toiling at Jezebel's, the brothel created for the pleasure of Gilead's two-faced commanders. There, she encounters Angela's new adoptive father: the grumpy but not-evil Commander Lawrence, who reluctantly married Naomi for reasons that are frankly too long to get into here. (It's The Handmaid's Tale—expect the worst!) He's aware of Janine's situation and brings one of the little girl's drawings to her, an act of kindness that renews Janine's hopes that one day she'll get to see her again. That situation feels ever-bleaker when Jezebel's is destroyed and Janine is snatched up by a commander who's taken a cruel interest in her. Eventually, though, her prolonged suffering finally ends when June kills the guy (stabs him in the eye, in fact), and after another brief yet awful stint in captivity, she's freed from Gilead forever. Best of all, though, as June and company are rushing to get her to safety, we see Aunt Lydia and Naomi appear. Incredibly, they're bringing Angela/Charlotte to be with her mom, to live a life away from Gilead's cruelty. Though The Handmaid's Tale series finale ended with a lot of characters still at the mid-points on their journeys, that's not the case for Janine. This is a real and true happy ending for her, at long last. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Brewer was understandably thrilled that her character finally got her greatest wish. 'I thought it was so beautiful. I'm so satisfied with the ending for Janine,' she said. 'It could have gone a lot of different ways and it's all she's ever wanted.' She continued. 'I don't think I really, truly hoped for anything because I couldn't even imagine. That's also not my job (laughs) [to write the show], but it's the same reason why I never made too many decisions about Janine's life before … So I didn't want to make too many decisions. I wanted it in ways to surprise me. And it did … I'm just so proud of Janine for always being herself and not letting them take the fire away from her. And for being a good friend and a good mom and a good person.' The show was often very bleak, but praise be—at least Janine finally triumphed in the end. All seasons of The Handmaid's Tale are now available on Hulu.
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘The Handmaid's Tale' Series Finale: Madeline Brewer Will Miss Janine
Madeline Brewer's Janine finally gets a happy ending but saying goodbye to the beloved character ... More won't be easy. Madeline Brewer has a lot of strong feelings about how things ended for her beloved character, Janine Lindo, on the series finale of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. She spent six seasons in the hell that is Gilead as a former Handmaid-turned-Jezebel-favorite, and saying goodbye to this character isn't easy. In a recent interview tied to the series finale of Netflix's You, Brewer hinted about Janine's fate without giving anything away, saying, 'I'm immensely proud to have seen Janine through to the end, and I think that she gets the only ending that she deserved…anything else I don't think would have been just.' Naomi (Ever Carradine), the high-ranking wife of a Commander, who was raising Janine's daughter Charlotte (renaming her Angela), begrudgingly releases Janine by throwing her to the ground like a pile of trash. Ann Dowd's Aunt Lydia is also there, but the look on her face isn't one of anger, but rather love. Janine is released to her friend, Elisabeth Moss' June Osborne, and she's also reunited with her daughter in that highly anticipated moment that fans have waited years to see. This was a very emotional scene for fans of the show who have followed Janine's horrifying journey for six seasons. She was not only a fan favorite but a career highlight for Brewer, who said in an interview post-finale that it won't be easy to let Janine go. Madeline Brewer's Janine got a happy ending in Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' 'Janine went through some of the most horrific things of any of the characters. Losing an eye was just one of many things she endured. Because of the world that they exist in, all of the characters have unique tragedies, but I think Janine's are the most literal because they're the most physical. She wears those tragedies on her face and in her personality. She's been literally and psychologically beaten down.' Brewer credits the writers with allowing Janine to grow and change. 'They didn't try to keep the crazy redhead from season one. They allowed her to evolve. Her point of view changes, and her ability to function under these oppressions changes. Her friendships, especially with June, change. In the final moments of Janine's time on the show, she's still fighting for these women.' As for her final moments on screen, Brewer says that even though she's finally free, how she's dumped on the ground embodies how women were seen and treated in Gilead. 'It's like she's disposed of, and it shows how they're still willing to treat a Handmaid. The way they're willing to drop her in a heap on the ground feels like a final f**k you from those Guardians.' Though Janine suffered years of abuse from Aunt Lydia, in the end, their relationship had evolved. Brewer describes Janine's complicated relationship with Aunt Lydia similarly to how Moss described June and Serena's relationship. Both relationships bring Stockholm Syndrome to mind. Madeline Brewer in 'The Handmaid's Tale' on Hulu. 'Janine and Lydia loved each other,' explained Brewer. 'It's hard to even put words to it. Janine was Lydia's favorite of all the Handmaids and prisoners. It's like winning a horrible contest. It would've been easier for the writers to create two characters, one in a position of power and the other in a position of subservience, and to have them dislike each other. That dynamic isn't as interesting as having them also have love for one another. That was challenging to navigate, especially in the final season. Janine's final plea to Aunt Lydia is the nail in the coffin for Lydia, who realizes she has to let these girls go.' Brewer adds that Janine was the only one who could've gotten through to her. 'Lydia needed to be right there with Naomi, giving Janine her life and daughter back.' Brewer said it won't be easy to say goodbye to Janine. 'I've spent nine years with Janine holding half of my heart. I'm ready for something new, but she's irrevocably part of who I am. I can't even begin to describe the gratitude I have for having had this opportunity as an actor. I'm also grateful for the experience as a woman, a daughter, and a future mother. It's indescribable. It truly is.'
Scottish Sun
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Stunning actress Madeline Brewer looks sensational in dress made from a 1986 Sun front page
Read on to find out more on Madeline's role in Netflix hit You MAD'S A RED-TOP Stunning actress Madeline Brewer looks sensational in dress made from a 1986 Sun front page Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ACTRESS Madeline Brewer makes a splash — in a dress made from a Sun front page. Redhead Madeline, 33, star of Netflix hit You, wore it for Behind the Blinds magazine. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 2 Madeline alongside actor Penn Badgley in popular Netflix series You Credit: PA It features a January 1986 edition of The Sun — the first printed at Wapping. The style resembles the John Galliano newspaper dress worn by Sex and The City star Sarah Jessica Parker in the popular series. Madeline starred alongside actor Penn Badgley in popular series You. In the fifth and final series, which is now streaming, viewers will see Joe embarking on an affair with a young woman named Bronte, played by Madeline. They meet after she gains employment at his bookstore but it soon becomes clear that she has an ulterior motive after she developed suspicions that Joe was responsible for the death of her close friend. Penn has led the show since its inception on the streaming service but has shied away from getting down and dirty on-camera for the past two series. However, he has since decided that in order to give the show a "proper conclusion," he needs to head back to the bedroom to spice things up for the final series. 2 Madeline Brewer posed in a dress made from a Sun front page from 1986 Credit: @foxhunter for Behind The Blinds Magazine
