How ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Inspired Elisabeth Moss’ Directing in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’

This story about “The Handmaid’s Tale” star and director Elisabeth Moss first appeared in the Comedy & Drama Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

After three seasons of leading Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” on screen, Elisabeth Moss decided it was time to take charge behind the camera during the drama’s fourth season. In signing up for her first directing gig in Gilead, Moss, who stars as renegade Handmaid June Osborne, thought she’d just be sitting in the director’s chair for one episode—but the pandemic changed her plans, luckily, for the better.

“We prepped it, shot for two weeks, shut down for almost six months, came back and kept shooting,” she said.