‘The Handmaid’s Tale': Ann Dowd Weighs in on Whether Aunt Lydia Might Turn Against Gilead

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Is Season 5 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” setting Aunt Lydia up to join the resistance? According to Ann Dowd, the answer is yes.“Lydia is tracking all of it,” Dowd recently told TheWrap of Lydia’s Season 5 story. “She’s alert.

She’s aware. She’s smart. She knows how to get the job done, and she is patient.”The answer won’t come as a shock to those who have read Margeret Atwood’s sequel to her 1985 novel, which was published in 2019. “The Testaments” is set 15 years after the events of the first book (which ends nearly beat-for-beat the way Season 1 of the series does).

In the story, we learn that Lydia had a direct hand in the fall of Gilead, supplying critical information to to the resistance organization Mayday.When asked point blank if Lydia would be joining the resistance, Dowd was clear. “The answer to that question lies [in ‘The Testaments’].

Nobody does it better than Margaret Atwood.”It wasn’t necessarily a given that the character would follow that path, especially considering not only had the show taken its own liberties beyond the ending of the original book, but there were also three seasons already released by the time the novel was even published.