The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss drives fans wild posing in iconic Gilead mask ‘from before it was cool’
ELISABETH Moss teased fans by posing in her iconic Gilead mask and joked they were doing it “from before it was cool”.
The 38-year-old actress, who plays June in the show, is keeping the spirit of the series alive as fans are set to have to wait until 2021 for the fourth season of the show.
Posting to Instagram with the playful photo, Elisabeth captioned the snap: "Been doing it before it was cool."
The actress was using the mask to encourage people to wear one to help stop the spread of covid-19, however, on the show, the reasons for wearing one are much more stark.
Set in a dystopian near-future, women have become chattel whose sole purpose is to either make babies, if they can, and be completely subservient to the patriarchal governing system.
The masks are used as a way to silence women as part of the various forms of ritualistic punishment for disobedience or independent thought, speech and action throughout the series.
The show The Handmaid's Tale, based on the books by Margaret Atwood, takes place in a near-future where human reproduction is a tiny fraction of what it used to be.
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Former Top of the Lake star Elisabeth Moss, 38, has admitted June is 'reaching the end of her nine lives' after repeatedly surviving the horrors of Gilead.
After she was shot, June was seen looking up at the sky, with specks of blood on her skin and a small smile on her face as she was carried along, and now Elisabeth has hinted her time could be up.
"Maybe they killed me off and they’re all off still shooting and they are afraid to tell me,” Elisabeth told TVLine.
She joked: “Yeah, June’s dead, and I’m just going to direct it.”