5/5/2023 0 Comments Commander waterfordI was padded up so people could let rip and throw the boot in. But I’m pretty sure, apart from one drone shot, that any pain inflicted upon Fred was inflicted upon me. I only had to do this run three or four times, and then it was left to a stuntman on the wide shots. As fast as you could run, it would be ahead of you. They filmed that wonderfully through a very, very thick, muddy, cold forest at three in the morning with this high camera on wires that would zip along at 20 miles an hour. What were the physical demands of that scene in which he is chased and then beaten at his own salvaging? What do you imagine he was thinking in his final moments? These are edited excerpts from the conversation. “They’re not all the components that really make you want to jump out of bed.” “It’s hardly an uplifting show, or indeed an enlightened, uplifting being that I’m portraying,” he said. He’d shot his final scenes in March, he said, and since then had been meditating on “losing the residue of Fred Waterford.” He admitted that he’d felt rather blue shooting his swan song amid pandemic anxiety, with his family halfway around the world. He was calling on Zoom from his home in Majorca, his face clean-shaven and his shirt the color of the Mediterranean, and unbuttoned far lower than his fundamentalist TV power-player would dare. “I think it’s great for the audience to have that catharsis.” “I’m just thrilled it happened at the finale,” Fiennes said. But then that season came and went, and Miller told him that perhaps his demise would come in Season 4 instead. “I’m lucky I got this far,” Fiennes recalled saying. When we last see Fred, he is hanging on a wall - his severed finger in an envelope addressed to his wife, Serena (Yvonne Strahovski).įiennes had been anticipating Fred’s death for a while now, ever since the showrunner Bruce Miller had hinted that Season 3 would be his last. And suddenly women pour out of dense woods, as June and her cadre of Gilead refugees enact their own salvaging - the ceremonial public executions that handmaids were forced to participate in. “Run,” June orders a shackled Fred into unoccupied territory between Canada and the United States. Fred, who thinks he’s headed to a life of freedom, will be turned over to Gilead and its draconian justice system - the one he helped to construct and inflict upon its women.īut just when it seems that things can’t get any worse for him, he’s handed off to her. “We ended at 6:00 in the morning, I went straight to the makeup trailer and off came Fred’s beard so I could begin the process of shedding the horror,” Fiennes said about shooting the Season 4 finale, in which an enraged June (Elisabeth Moss) gives as good as she gets.Īfter learning that her rapist and tormentor has saved himself from prison by becoming a government informant, June persuades her allies to implement a bait and switch. And Joseph Fiennes, the actor who plays him, couldn’t wait to peel off his skin. Praise be, at last: Fred Waterford, the inscrutably sadistic commander at the center of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has met his demise. Without further ado, here are all 22 characters who have died on The Handmaid’s Tale…so far.This interview includes spoilers for the season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But it’ll be quickly balanced out by the joy of all the terrible Gileadians who are finally gone. Be warned: It may pull at your heartstrings as you remember all the lovable characters we’ve lost over the years. So just in case you’d rather not have to keep a running list of every Handmaid’s Tale death in your head, here’s one written out for you. And with season 5 upon us-and tensions rising in both Gilead and Canada-I can only imagine how many more people are going to be killed off soon. In case you forgot, season 4 left off on the MAJOR death of Fred Waterford (praise be), but he wasn’t the only one to lose his life that season. The show has been going on for more than five years (!!!), and that’s meant five years of trying to remember who has (and has not) survived the horrifying Gilead regime. And at this point, it’s hard to keep track of everyone who has passed. Seriously, it’s pretty much like Game of Thrones up in here. If you’ve been watching The Handmaid’s Tale since it began in 2017, then you’re VERY aware of how willing they are to kill off characters you know and love.
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