#TheHandmaidsTale took the stage for PaleyFest LA 2025 Wednesday night, and while reflecting on the show’s ongoing political relevance in American culture, #BradleyWhitford — who stars as Commander #JosephLawrence — said it feels as if the country is being run like a real-life Gilead. “I think at the core this is something really … it is very weird that this show began, started shooting … here we are, unthinkable things have happened. I make a very, and we’re bewildered — I make a dark joke that it’s like the worst ‘Handmaid’s’ episode ever, where June [#ElisabethMoss’ character] is about to be executed and she turns to the camera and says, ‘I heard they’re really incompetent, right?’” Whitford says, explaining his bit, but pivoting to a more serious tone. “We need to meet this moment, and June is a fundamental thing we have to remember in this moment, which is, despair is a luxury that our children can not afford … Racism is not going away, misogyny is not going to go away, religious...