“The Handmaid’s Tale” executive producer Warren Littlefield thinks America is turning into Gilead, the show’s fictional totalitarian and oppressive republic.
“We’re on a very, very slippery slope toward Gilead,” Littlefield told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter on Sunday. Ann Dowd, who plays Aunt Lydia, agreed. Her character is one of the biggest supporters of the fascist regime in the show, which is based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name.
“We’re a heck of a lot closer than we were in Season 1, which is terrible,” Dowd added. “It was scary in Season 1, and it got more and more serious as we were shooting the pilot that ‘this is happening.’”