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In an exclusive speech with E! News, The Handmaid's Tale's Madeline Brewer explained Janine's motivations successful play 5 of the Hulu drama—and wherefore there's much to her story.
The Handmaid's Tale: Madeline Brewer connected What's Next for Janine
When it comes to Janine, Madeline Brewer knows there's much than meets the eye.
In play 5 of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, which dropped its archetypal 2 episodes Sept. 14, Janine refuses to shake escaped from being a subservient Handmaid nether the power of the Aunts, contempt the urging of Esther (Mckenna Grace).
While Janine's complacency mightiness beryllium confusing for immoderate viewers, Madeline wholly understands her motivations.
"I deliberation it's truthful casual to look astatine Janine and deliberation that she's conscionable pursuing successful enactment and she's pursuing the rules," Madeline told E! News' Francesca Amniker. "I deliberation it's precise casual to deliberation that she's doing that. But there's thing that Janine does without reason. I deliberation that she's a subsister and she ever has been."
In bid to survive, Janine decides to effort to get connected the bully broadside of the Aunts.
"I deliberation that she sees herself as, ‘If I'm utile to them, possibly they won't station me,'" Madeline argued. "Her astir contiguous anxiousness close now, erstwhile we spot her astatine the apical of this season, is, ‘Will I beryllium posted oregon not? Are they going to nonstop maine backmost into work oregon not?' Because if they nonstop maine backmost into service, I'm going to bow retired of life. She doesn't request to beryllium present anymore."
So, successful bid to impressment those successful power, Janine goes supra and beyond to get herself noticed.
"She has the anxiousness of, ‘Will the Aunts station maine if I marque myself utile to them? If I tin assistance retired the different girls? If I support them successful enactment and we're each precise organized and the morale is boosted with Janine there? If I tin bash that for these Aunts, past possibly they won't station me,'" Madeline said. "So, there's a small spot of manipulation there. Janine doesn't person a full batch left. She conscionable wants to person purpose."
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One happening that does thrust Janine, of course, is the undying emotion she has for her daughter—and the lengths she's consenting to spell for a imaginable reunion.
"If it means the accidental of seeing Charlotte," Madeline said, "she'll bash anything."
The archetypal 2 episodes of The Handmaid's Tale play five are streaming present connected Hulu, with caller episodes released connected Wednesdays.
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