Writers Bloc Presents: Margaret Atwood and Bradley Whitford | September 15, 2020

Writers Bloc and the Skirball Cultural Center present Dame Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood‘s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, shook us in 1985. It imagined a totalitarian state called The Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States. The Constitution has been tossed out the window, and the military has taken over. Gilead’s women are subjugated, the law is the Bible strictly interpreted, and resistance is squashed. Thirty-five years ago, it was a cautionary tale about repressive societies. Today many readers consider it prophetic. The Testaments is the next chapter.
In conversation with Bradley Whitford. Whitford is an award-winning actor who plays Joseph Lawrence in the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale. He has had notable roles in countless films, including Get Out, and in countless television series. We almost forgot to mention that he plays Josh Lyman on The West Wing.

[@joantendler6518]

"Yes, you were needed. Every springtime needed you.
Even stars relied on your witnessing presence
when a gathering wave surged from the past - or when
some violin utterly offered itself
as you passed by a half-opened window. All this was your mission.
Did you discharge it? Were you not ever distracted
by anticipation? As if all Creation existed
only to signal a mistress? (Where would you keep her?
With those great foreign Conjectures coming and going
by night as by day?)"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

[@MiaowMcDonald]

brilliant.

[@not2tees]

Not a bad interview at all, of the ones on RUclips I've watched, probably the best. The Testaments is a great book, all right.

[@Bnazf]

this was great, thank you so much

[@marieeaton-smith5168]

Loved this.