The 41-year-old Emmy-winning actress in a new interview opens up about her career, motherhood as well as the complexities of playing traumatized characters.
- May 29, 2024
AceShowbiz - Elisabeth Moss is ready to bring her new baby to the set of "The Handmaid's Tale". Speaking with Business Insider on Tuesday, May 28, she said, "I think it'll be lovely. I think it'll be a whole new added perspective to life."
The 41-year-old actress, who plays June in the Hulu drama, noted that "time will tell" but she's "sure it's going to affect all parts of [her] life." She continued, "But we're used to having lots of babies and lots of moms and dads on set, and we're a very baby and kid-friendly set. So I don't think it's going to be a huge adjustment for us."
Moss confirmed her pregnancy during a January appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". She also noted that she's been "incredibly lucky" throughout her pregnancy. "It's been going really well," Moss said.
Moss has been open about her desire to raise a family. "I do want to be a mother," Moss told Marie Claire UK in May 2018. "I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me."
Moss has also had decades of practice in professionally pretending to be traumatized. One of her first acting gigs in an NBC miniseries required her to scream upon discovering her mother, played by Sandra Bullock, dead and bloodied in a pool. "It was fun," a chipper Moss tells Business Insider. "I knew it was a job. I knew it was acting."
That ethos is a key part of how Moss stays sane while taking on an endless array of emotionally taxing roles. "I just kind of looked at it the same way that I do now," Moss continues. "I don't get confused as to what's real and not real."
Her latest role on the FX spy thriller "The Veil" has all the hallmarks of a typical Moss project, from the prestige network to the dark and twisty plot. Moss smolders with intensity as Imogen Salter, a skilled MI6 agent who forms a relationship with a suspected ISIS terrorist (Yumna Marwan) that turns into a complicated and deadly game of deception.
