Joseph Fiennes has landed a role on Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale series. Empire Magazine reports that he will portray the character of Commander Fred Waterford.
Empire Magazine reports that Fiennes will be joining a cast that includes Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, Max Minghella, and Ann Dowd. The story for this drama adaptation comes from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel.
Here’s more from Deadline: “The series tells the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.” (via The Huffington Post)