Production on the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale began on Sept. 3, but Max Minghella’s first day on set is tomorrow, Tuesday, here in Toronto.
When we last left Nick, he was trying to use his influence to save June Osborne, his lover, from being a target of Gilead. Nick punches Commander Lawrence and gets put in jail by the Eyes. While there, Nick is confronted by his married wife Rose Blaine about his affair with June. With June and the other women having savagely murdered Commander Waterford, the question remains whether Max and June could ever have a happy ending.
“What’s interesting about the show, I don’t know any more than anyone else. We don’t get episodes ahead of time. Much like life, I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. The very honest answer is, I don’t know what will happen with Nick and June,” said Minghella.
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“I love this character, I love the relationship between Nick and June,” Minghella tells us.
Everyone needs to tune in next spring when Hulu streams the show.
Minghella also spoke about his second directorial, the futuristic Shell which stars his Handmaid’s Tale co-star Elisabeth Moss. Both Moss and Minghella produced the dark comedy and body horror which follows a down-on-her-luck actress (Moss) who challenges a beauty firm CEO (Kate Hudson) over her company’s questionable science.
Minghella tells us, “I was yearning to make something audience facing.”
In regards to the change-up from his coming-of-age Teen Spirit starring Elle Fanning as an aspiring singer to the edgy Shell, Minghella tells us, “Both stories are about women entering different aspects of the entertainment industry and there’s some kind of disillusionment of some kind of a Mephistopheles character in some way.”
We also speak with Minghella about the filmmaking takeaways he learned from his father, The English Patient Oscar winner Anthony Minghella.