Why Alexis Bledel’s Emily Malek Left The Handmaid’s Tale

Alexis Bledel left “The Handmaid’s Tale” In 2022 after four seasons as part of the distribution of Hulu’s successful drama. At the time, the announcement was a shock because its character, the Emily Malek, which has become Handmaid, was an important part of history, which is a rather dark story on women subjected to horrible abuses in an authoritarian dystopia known as Gilead. So what made Bledel move away from one of the Best Hulu shows has published to date?

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In case someone wondered if she had been dismissed, Bledel revealed in a statement published at Variety That the decision to leave “The Handmaid’s Tale” was entirely his. That said, the actor did not explain what made him want to move away from the series. In his own words:

“After a lot of reflection, I felt that I had to move away from” The Handmaid’s Tale “for the moment. I am eternally grateful to Bruce Miller for having written such truthful and resonant scenes for Emily, and Hulu, MGM, distribution and crew for their support.”

Since then, the creator of “Handmaid’s Tale” Bruce Miller supported Bledel’s comments. He assured fans that no one forced him to move away from the series, note that the actor was going through a “complicated period” of his life when she resigned. However, the release of Bledel meant that the screenwriters of the show had to find a way to explain the lack of Emily in season 5 and beyond, so how did they go around?

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“The Handmaid’s Tale” leaves the fate of Emily open, but she still receives a somewhat definitive ship in case of reviewing the fans. The first of season 5 sees June Osborne looking for her friend, only to learn from Emily’s wife, Sylvia (Clea Duvall), that Emily returned to Gilead to find the nasty aunt Lydia Clements (Ann Dowd) and continue to serve as a freedom of freedom. The end.

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The conversation between June and Sylvia is full of regret and a reluctance to continue Emily, because they accept that she is probably not coming back. In addition, the exchange between June and Sylvia reflects what the creators of the show felt at the time, as Bruce Miller said The Hollywood Reporter::

“What I tried to do was to face the way we all felt at that time. Like:” Oh my God. “So I think that, in some ways, the real emotions stir the dog.”

Bledel’s release may not have The most difficult moment in the story of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, “ But the creators of the show still seem quite disappointed with this. However, it is good to know that Emily was not killed, and that she is there somewhere, fighting for a noble cause.

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