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19-05-2025
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The Handmaid's Tale's Ann Dowd, EPs on a Shaken Aunt Lydia as the Series Ends and Sequel The Testaments Begins: ‘She's Lost Her Way'
We've come a long way from the cattle prod. The most recent Handmaid's Tale episode found Aunt Lydia, the violent and staunch Gilead apologist played by Ann Dowd, sobbing on the floor as she beseeched God for help. What sent one of the series' scariest characters to her knees, you might wonder? A conversation with June that forced the older woman to come to terms with the reality of her role as a fixer for religious rape. (Read a full episode recap here.) More from TVLine Grey's Anatomy's Hot New Doc: Did Your First Impression Leave You Wanting Seconds? TVLine Asks: Would The Handmaid's Tale Weaponized Wedding Cake Have Worked on You? Say It Ain't So, Jo: Grey's Anatomy Wouldn't Really Make Link's Bride a Widow... Would It? The scene (which earned Dowd a Performer of the Week spot) was the season's most stark — though certainly not the first — reminder that Aunt Lydia has changed drastically over the course of the series. During a SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel I moderated earlier this year, Dowd offered some insight into her character's gradual change of heart. 'I think she's aging,' she said, noting that Lydia's day-to-day experience in Gilead and her relationship with the handmaids 'over time, it affects her. It changes her. It changes her health, her mental health, her physical health. It begins to show up.' Elisabeth Moss, series star/executive producer, chimed in. 'The vulnerability that I think Ann brings to this season, it's always been there, which is what has made Lydia so interesting and so complicated. But I do think… that there are not many actresses willing to go to the vulnerable, open place, the complicated place that she goes to this season, and I don't know of anyone else who could do it the way that she did it.' (Press PLAY on the video above to watch the complete conversation. The Aunt Lydia part starts around the 10:33 mark.) Hulu currently is in production on The Testaments, a Handmaid's sequel series based on Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel. The show will follow Lydia (played by Dowd, reprising her Handmaid's role), as well as two young women (played by Presumed Innocent's Chase Infiniti and newcomer Lucy Halliday) with complicated, intertwining stories. The Testaments: Everything We Know About The Handmaid's Tale Sequel Series View List 'A lot of the stuff that happens in Season 6 [of Handmaid's] is lighting a fuse for Lydia in The Testaments, who eventually comes to the idea that maybe the whole Gilead experiment needs to be washed out of the sheets,' says Bruce Miller, an executive producer on both series. As such, he adds, the events of Episode 6 are part of 'the radicalization of Lydia — but I don't think June's telling her anything she doesn't already know.' EP Warren Littlefield notes that 'Lydia has absolutely lost her way. We've [previously] seen her learn that Gilead is an imperfect place, but she's never rejected it.' He points out that Lydia's finding Janine working at Jezebel's earlier in the season was 'an awakening, for her, of how truly flawed it is.' He ends with a tease about the series' ending. 'The Lydia we're left with says things that we never would have heard from — you'll see in the final two episodes — words that Lydia never would have spoken. That's incredibly powerful, and it's part of how we end our journey.' streams new episodes Tuesdays on Hulu. The series finale is set for Tuesday, May 27. Best of TVLine Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now
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05-05-2025
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So, About That Steamy NCIS: Origins Swimming Pool Scene: ‘We Were Freezing Our T–s Off!' Star Shares
NIS Special Agents Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Lala Dominguez may have (ahem) warmed up to each other in a whole new way in CBS' NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale, but for actors Austin Stowell and Mariel Molino, the temperature there on-set was anything but steamy. When filming the swimming pool scene in which Gibbs and Lala nearly shared a first kiss, 'We were freezing our t–s off!' Molino shared with TVLine. More from TVLine Exclusive Tracker Finale Trailer Reveals Major Returning Character The Best Version of That Powerful NCIS: Origins Finale Is the One Where Lala Is Dead - Here's Why Queen Latifah Pays Tribute to The Equalizer After CBS Cancellation: 'Everything I Hoped It Would Be' The swimming pool scenes (including Lala's initial, solitary pool hop) were filmed on Feb. 27 at a home near the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood, Calif., and very late at night — when even temperate Los Angeles can deliver a big chill. 'That was a night shoot at 1 am going into 2 am, so it was really cold,' Molino, a TVLine Performer of the Week honorable mention for the season finale, recalled. To stay warm, the actress in between takes would quickly exit the pool, 'where our special effects was blasting a massive heater. I would warm up and then go into the pool again.' The native of the San Diego area admitted with a laugh that 'everyone would make fun of me, of course, because I'm just such a weakling for any type of cold temperature.' Even so, she very much enjoyed her first dip into the pool, where Lala simply (and stealthily!) decompressed by quietly floating around on her back. 'Getting to swim around for fun was just a delight,' Molino effused. As an actor, she noted, 'I can't say I've done that before!' TVLine readers gave the NCIS: Originals finale, as well as all of Season 1, an average grade of 'A.' Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
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22-03-2025
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Adam Scott in 'Severance' Season 2 Finale
Adam Scott earned TVLine's Performer of the Week honor for his powerful turn in the 'Severance' Season 2 finale. Watch his best moments from the episode.
