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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, The Handmaid's Tale prima Sam Jaeger reveals however helium hopes things wrapper up for his character—and if helium thinks he'll enactment live until the extremity of the series.
Sam Jaeger thinks a blessed ending is astir apt excessively overmuch to inquire for.
The actor, who plays U.S authorities operative Mark Tuello connected Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, knows amended than to expect thing different than brutality and bloodshed from the series, which is presently successful the midst of its 5th season.
Still, with the extremity of the bid successful sight—it was recently renewed for a sixth and last season—Sam hopes Mark tin astatine slightest find immoderate solace arsenic The Handmaid's Tale heads into the location stretch.
"I deliberation he's enmeshed successful trying to rescue arsenic galore radical from Gilead arsenic possible," helium exclusively told E! News, "so I anticipation the champion for the feline due to the fact that I deliberation he's trying to woody with a batch of large personalities and helium deserves a spot of a break."
One of those large personalities is Serena, played by Yvonne Strahovski, whose communicative has taken halfway signifier successful play five. Despite her vindictiveness—and rather a idiosyncratic past with Mark—Sam says helium inactive wants the champion for her, arsenic well.
"We've been with these characters for truthful agelong that I anticipation they find redemption, adjacent Serena," Sam said, "who has been specified a conflicted quality and specified an force for truthful overmuch of the series. I anticipation she finds a spot of grace and acceptance and peace. I deliberation that is the anticipation for our show."
Ultimately, Sam is conscionable hoping Mark makes it to the end—but he's not wholly optimistic. "I anticipation Mark survives," helium said, "but the likelihood of that are possibly 50/50."
If helium does live, Sam hopes Mark is capable to transportation retired the objectives that person guided his motivations throughout the series.
"I deliberation his anticipation is for what utilized to be, what's near of democracy," helium said. "I deliberation he's yearning for that and hoping to regain immoderate consciousness of state for himself and for truthful galore others. I anticipation helium finds a spot of peace."
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However, if Mark does so conscionable his maker, Sam has been preparing himself for the fateful moment.
"I deliberation they would astatine slightest telephone maine earlier they termination maine off. I deliberation they'd springiness maine that kindness," helium said. "But I bash unfastened the scripts with hesitation due to the fact that I retrieve speechmaking the archetypal 2 episodes of this play and getting to the extremity and seeing that pivotal infinitesimal wherever Serena benignant of takes implicit and thinking, ‘Oh no, this is not what I wanted.'"
On The Handmaid's Tale, it seldom is.
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