Elisabeth Moss says "it's always a weird thing for us" after grappling with U.S. Supreme Court's plan to overturn Roe v. Wade amid The Handmaid Tale filming

Vanity Fair

“It was a bit somber on set when we first started (after the leak to Politico), but you have to sort of get to work and do the day,” Moss told Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men podcast of the impending abortion ruling. “It’s always a weird thing for us. It’s not a pleasant thing. It’s not something that gets us excited, when there are these parallels and when your character is used as an example of something that’s happening in real life. It’s not anything we take any pleasure in at all.” Moss added: “It does feel gratifying to be making something that you feel like is saying something that perhaps people should be listening to right now, but I also think that our relevancy is all due to Margaret Atwood. The book that she wrote in 1985, which was a while ago now, remains relevant and remains important. We owe a lot of that to her. She has talked about how history is cyclical, and she has talked about how these things repeat themselves. And that’s very, very true.”