But at the same time, I think he is testing June at different points. “I think he’s very caught up in his mind about this notion of, not just usefulness, but part of what he likes about her and what is really intriguing to him about June is that he connects with their bravery. “I think, you know, he talks about how he likes Emily,” Whitford said. And while those heroic actions might lead you to believe that Lawrence is a man who has realized the error of his ways in helping construct the dystopian society, the trio of episodes that launched the Season 3 prove things are not that simple - especially now that June has moved into his house as his new Handmaid and begun to challenge him in a way he hasn’t been in years.Īlso Read: Summer TV Premiere Dates: Here's Every New and Returning Show (Photos) And I think when you meet him, what you are seeing are the unconscious beginnings of his humanity coming back.”įirst introduced at the end of the second season, Lawrence helped Emily (Alexis Bledel) escape Gilead with June’s (Elisabeth Moss) baby, and tried to get June out herself at the start of the Season 3 last week, though she decided to stay for her other daughter Hannah. And I think Lawrence is a guy with a big brain that has obliterated his humanity. He was a brilliant, brilliant businessman and economic thinker who revolutionized the auto industry and then took all that brilliance and exterminated a couple million people in Southeast Asia. “And the basic way I think about this guy is like Robert McNamara, the guy who ran the war in Vietnam for Kennedy and Johnson. “The fun thing about this guy, and the horrible thing, is that he is filled with contradictions,” Whitford told TheWrap. (Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Season 3 of “The Handmaid’s Tale”)Ĭommander Joseph Lawrence is an enigma, even to Bradley Whitford, who plays the character - one of the architects of Gilead - on Season 3 of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
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