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Hulu\u2019s highly-anticipated The Testaments<\/em> <\/a>has put in a lot of work to make their cast look very different on The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a> spinoff than they do in real life.<\/p>\n Based on Margaret Atwood<\/strong>\u2019s novel of the same name, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, which aired from 2017 to 2025, took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women<\/a> to be assigned to men for bearing children.<\/p>\n After The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u2018s final season was announced in 2022, creator Bruce Miller<\/strong> stepped down as showrunner to work on The Testaments<\/em> as executive producers Eric Tuchman<\/strong> and Yahlin Chang<\/strong> took over the day-to-day duties on the flagship drama.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are making The Testaments, and it\u2019s not going to track precisely,\u201d Miller told TVLine at the time. \u201cMargaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters. We had to go away from that in Handmaid\u2019s, and we\u2019re going to have to go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is certainly going to be a sequel to the show.\u201d<\/p>\n The Testaments<\/em>, which is set 15 years later, is narrated by Ann Dowd<\/strong>\u2018s Aunt Lydia as viewers are thrust back into<\/a> the dystopian future with characters such as Agnes from Gilead and Daisy from Canada \u2014 as they secretly gather and smuggle incriminating information about Gilead\u2019s regime out of the country. Agnes and Daisy pose as \u201cPearl Girls\u201d to infiltrate Canada, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source within Gilead.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAlthough I could not continue with the story of Offred, I could continue with three other people concerned in these events and tell the story of the beginning of the end, because we know from The Handmaid\u2019s Tale that Gilead vanishes,\u201d Atwood told journalists at an event in 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer present 200 years into the future, because they\u2019re having a symposium on it. How did it collapse? How do these kinds of regimes disappear? I was interested in exploring that.\u201d<\/p>\n