Wednesday 23 November 2022 07:08 AM The Handmaid's Tale's Madeline Brewer says character's abortion story ... trends now
Madeline Brewer said that her character on The Handmaid's Tale played a key factor in her coming forward with her own story about abortion earlier this year.
The 30-year-old actress, who plays Janine on the Hulu series, said in a piece from The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday that both the role of Janine and one she has in a Cabaret adaptation have had abortions, serving an an inspiration to speak out after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this past June.
'People talk about how much they love Janine and how much Janine has inspired them, and it felt important to me to talk about my own experience,' Brewer said of the character, who had an abortion storyline in the show's fourth season last year.
The latest: Madeline Brewer, 30, said that her character on The Handmaid's Tale, Janine, played a key factor in her coming forward with her own story about abortion. She was pictured in London in September
She continued: 'Right now I’m doing theater in the West End, which I’ve wanted to do my whole life, and this character has an abortion as well. I was preparing this audition during the overturn of Roe.
'I was playing Janine, preparing this audition, and now every single night I play a woman who goes through the feelings of getting pregnant, wanting to keep it, deciding not to keep it, because of the life that she wants for herself.'
The New Jersey native told the outlet of the timeline that led to her speaking out: 'When I filmed Janine’s scenes where she was getting an abortion and being manipulated by these crisis pregnancy centers, Roe v. Wade was still intact.
'But having that storyline was actually a really incredible grieving process for me for my own abortion that I spoke about online in June after the overturn of Roe.'
