Moss: You’ve said a lot, and I’ve repeated often, that everything that happened in The Handmaid’s Tale has happened.Ītwood: Somewhere at some time. There are more babies being born, the air is cleaner.Ītwood: A character in the book says, “Better never means better for everyone.” Moss: We touch on this more in the show than in the book, but even though things are bad for the handmaids, the government has improved some things. I was always very interested in the Salem witch trials, another instance of controlling women. I thought it would have to be some sort of theocracy, like the 17th century in the U.S. But you said that the kernel of the idea was how you would control women by shutting down their bank accounts.Ītwood: Also it was, If America were going to do a totalitarian government, what kind of totalitarian government would it be? It wouldn’t be communism. Moss: When we first met, we were in a very loud restaurant, so I was sort of leaning over the table trying desperately to hear all of your answers.
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