5/24/2023 0 Comments Gilead fiction![]() ![]() It is a complete coincidence that her near-future dystopia and her historical novel based on a real 19th-century murder have come at the same time, she says. ![]() “Sometimes I pretend to be a scary old lady,” she confesses over coffee. “Once was enough.” She has very much been cast to type. She will be on set in Toronto for the second season soon, again as a consultant, but not in a nasty aunt outfit this time. Atwood was a consultant on both productions, and has cameo performances in each: as one of the aunts in The Handmaid’s Tale, slapping Elisabeth Moss’s Offred round the face, and as “Disapproving Woman” (the sign on her trailer) in Alias Grace. In March the New Yorker crowned her “the prophet of dystopia” and the TV adaptations of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace has orbited her into an international stardom seldom experienced by novelists. While the world – and Gilead – show no sign of getting any cheerier, Atwood is seemingly unstoppable. And, of course, the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale returns this spring: she has read the first eight scripts and has “no fingernails left”. Now, just a few weeks into January, she is already making headlines with typically trenchant comments on the #MeToo movement. “I t was not my fault!” says Margaret Atwood of 2017. ![]()
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