EXCLUSIVE: Rowan Blanchard (Poker Face, Snowpiercer) has joined the sequence common forged of Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Story sequel sequence The Testaments, sources affirm to Deadline. She joins the beforehand introduced leads, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday and Ann Dowd, who returns as her authentic character, Aunt Lydia.
Blanchard stars as Shunammite, a pampered teen from a outstanding Gilead household whose standing affords her a sure degree of respect and energy amongst her friends.
The Handmaid’s Story and The Testaments are primarily based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. Just like the mothership sequence, the sequel is created by Bruce Miller, who serves as showrunner and government producer.
The Testaments takes place within the dystopian theocracy of Gilead greater than 15 years after the occasions of The Handmaid’s Story. The sequence is a coming-of-age story that finds a brand new era of younger ladies in Gilead, grappling with the grim future that awaits them.
For these younger ladies, rising up in Gilead is all they’ve ever identified. That they had no tangible recollections of the surface world earlier than their indoctrination into this life. Dealing with the prospect of being married off and dwelling a lifetime of servitude, they are going to be pressured to seek for allies, each new and outdated, to assist in their struggle for freedom and the life they deserve.
Miller government produces with The Handmaid’s Story‘s crew Warren Littlefield, Steve Stark, and Mike Barker, who may even direct the primary three episodes.
Blanchard was lately seen in Hulu’s hit sequence Poker Face and reverse Auli’i Cravalho within the American Excessive for Hulu rom-com Crush. Beforehand, Rowan starred reverse Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs in TNT’s Snowpiercer, recurred on the ABC sequence The Goldbergs, and led the Disney Channel Authentic Film Invisible Sister. On the movie aspect, she starred in Ava Duvernay’s A Wrinkle in Time. She is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Leisure, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
