How to bring Taylor Swift on board Taylor Swift for a Pivotal scene -as the TALE leader of the Handmaid

Follow nine of the sixth and last season of The history of the handmaid opened with the handmades, in formation and escaped from the middle after an uprising against the commanders.

Play over this scene? The brand new 'Taylor's version' by Taylor Swift's “Look what you did.”

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“Our line -up and crew are full of Swifties and I know that Elisabeth Moss was looking for an opportunity to add one of Taylor's songs to the show” HELLO! At the first Showrunners & Creators breakfast from Theewrap on May 21, the collaboration revealed after all the years.

“Wendy Hallam Martin, our editor of the episode, realized that it would be the perfect song for this sequence, and it worked so nicely.”

There was never a consideration of using the song elsewhere, added Eric, who said: “It really worked so perfectly because the handmaid had just fled and as best they fit as well.”

The opportunity to use this song came from Elisabeth himself, who Eric “could speak to Taylor's people to get permission to use the song – and we are thrilled”.

It is also not lost for Eric or C-Show runner Yahlin Chang that the 35-year-old has given permission to use the brand new “Taylor's version” of the track.

“So that it was Taylor's version, it was huge,” adds Yahlin, and the couple admitted that they knew that it would “hunt up” because Taylor's fans are a force you have to count on “.

Taylor Swift's story

It is the perfect moment for the song, which was first published in 2017 and came after Taylor to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's attempted takedown of the singer for almost 12 months disappeared from the public.

The song is reminiscent of a betrayal of an alleged narrow confidante and how the protagonist has returned to defend himself and regain his reputation.

In the scene in question, the Magd and Aunt Phoebe will march through the city to meet the Mayday trucks, but as the trucks that wear the guards to follow them, they start running – and the bombs set by Mayday begin to start.

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“Taylor was such an inspiration for me personally. As Swiftie himself, and I think I can speak for myself [co-star] Yvonne [Strahovski] And our entire line -up, which is all Swifties, it is an honor to be able to use their music in the last episodes of our show, “said Elisabeth beforehand about Billboard.

Dystopia or reality?

The surprising drop of the new version also took place days after President Donald Trump “not hot” on social media, a shocking comment from the United States.

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At a time when there is a fear that America is a authoritarian state, Yuhlin The history of the handmaid Is even more than in real life than before.

“We thought we were only doing a TV show, we didn't expect it to be instructions or operating instructions,” she says.

“It should be a warning story. It is not like trying to tear from the headlines or anything, but we do research on how authoritarian regimes take over … The real world just hurls closer and closer to our show.”