The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss has revealed a colleague requested to keep her used underwear after the show finished filming.
Based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, the dystopian drama follows a religious, totalitarian society that subjects fertile women, called Handmaids, to bearing children for the upper class against their will.
The series centres on June Osborne (played by Elisabeth), who was captured while attempting to escape to Canada with her husband and daughter, but has been forced to become a Handmaid and is now referred to as Offred – being named after Fred Waterford, the Commander whose home she is placed in.
After being met with critical acclaim following its release in 2017, the series has since released four more seasons, with a sixth and final set to air next month.
However ahead of the season premiere, Elisabeth has detailed an incredibly strange discovery she made as the show was wrapping up.
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress explained how she wanted to keep some underwear from the show – but was told someone else had already requested them.
‘We had an email sent all of the EP’s that had a full list of all of the props and costumes we could take and in a very mature way I replied “dibs” and proceeded to list everything I wanted,’ she said.
‘There was one thing I really wanted, which was Offred’s underwear set that was specially designed and someone told me that someone else had already asked for it.’
Expressing disbelief, the talk show host replied: ‘Wait a minute. This is your custom underwear that you wore? And some creep on the staff requested it in writing? Like, “I want Elisabeth’s underpants. I’m gonna take ’em home. I’m gonna put ’em in storage for a while”.’
Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Elisabeth then revealed she still doesn’t know who put in the request and ‘didn’t wanna know’.
‘You don’t?! I wanna know. How do you not wanna know?’ he questioned.
However, she replied: ‘I went to work with these people! I don’t wanna know who wants my underwear!.’
But still confused by the whole situation Jimmy went on: ‘What kind of a crazy thing is that to say?! Oh my God, I hope it’s a woman. I mean, really. Someone made a formal request for your underwear — like in writing, in an email — that they shared with other people. We need to know who that person is.’
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Wrapping up the chat Elisabeth then said she was perplexed as she ‘didn’t think anyone would want it!’.
Despite missing out on this costume item, the actress did manage to secure some items she wanted when Mad Men ended, revealing in the same interview she took ‘a lot’ of stuff from set.
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‘I took my chair. The last chair that I sat in as Peggy, this purple chair,’ she explained. ‘But it’s not a very nice chair, so it’s just in storage. I don’t know what to do with it! I don’t know why I have a chair.’
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