She likes the fact that she is that way, and we see that in her.

It’s one of her personal defining characteristics. What’s her life going to be like after that?įor June, it’s an incredibly pivotal moment. The idea that she’s going to go back and live her life with her husband - it’s strange that her suicidal impulse came not when she was going to stay in Gilead, but when she found out she was going to get out. This is a woman, Eleanor, who thinks she’s going to get out of Gilead and is very unhappy about it. We like to show those kinds of moments, where she’s really making a moral turn. The most shocking moment, for me, was when she chose to watch Eleanor die in episode 12, in a moment that resembled a pivotal Breaking Bad scene in a lot of ways.

Well, let’s talk about June’s dark path this season. The big journey for June is, at the beginning, she says, “I’m a rebel,” and then the entire season is answering, “Wait, what does that mean?” There are steps that go into that, and a lot of changes happen in who you are and your moral code. What I was looking for from June is, what’s the real process of going from a normal person to being someone who’s basically fighting a guerrilla war. It’s one thing to decide to be a rebel what does it look like to actually do that? What does that mean? We watch a lot of TV and movies where people are appointed rebels, and then they don’t want to go get their hands dirty. EW caught up with Miller about our lingering questions coming out of the finale, the dark path June went down this season, and much more.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How are you feeling about season 3 now that it’s completed?īRUCE MILLER: For me, the intention was to show June as a real hero, not a fictional hero. It’s but one of many questions we had coming out of this action-packed run of episodes, which left several other pivotal characters’ fates up in the air and rigorously explored the limits and realities of activism.

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