# @thewrap on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-03-27T18:03:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Wrap (@thewrap) — https://gondola.cc/thewrap

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#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 harm is not going to go away, and I find something really inspiring for this moment about what is the core of #JuneOsborne.”

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juneosborne, elisabethmoss, josephlawrence, thehandmaidstale, bradleywhitford

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