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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 16 January 2018
Producer re-shot sexual assault

scene in YouTube drama

By LYNN ELBER movement and the new drama because it triggers
AP Television Writer YouTube drama is a coin- the first “teleportation” for
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A cidence but a welcome Henry and remains central
sexual assault scene in an one, LeFranc said in an to her young life, she said.
upcoming YouTube drama interview following a Q&A Hassan (“Twisted,” ‘’The
series was re-shot and re- with TV critics Saturday. The Finder”) called it “very im-
vised after a female show- series’ debut date was not portant to us that this be a
runner joined the project. announced. real story, even though it’s
Executive producer Lauren “We’re hoping that be- fiction and has the veil of
LeFranc said she wanted cause of the conversations science fiction.”
to focus more closely on being had that people are It’s a chance to give abuse
the experience of the vic- going to give a show like survivors a voice and the
tim, a 16-year-old played this more credit and see chance to feel less alone,
by actress Maddie Hasson, there’s a voice here,” she Hassan said. Maddie Hasson participates in the ‘Impulse’ panel during the
and make the assault “vis- said, “rather than falling on The drama at its heart is YouTube Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif.
ceral and real.” the sidelines like some pre- a coming-of-age story Associated Press
The pilot episode of “Im- vious shows and films that that focuses on Henry, the
pulse” was both shot and have spoken out about young man who attacked clude the film “Bourne “flitting all around,” but the
revised before the sexual sexual assault have come her and is left paralyzed Identity,” said the idea of contrary is true.
misconduct scandal broke and gone.” by the violent aftermath, a character who can tele- Henry, whose full name
in Hollywood last year, She was determined that as well as Henry’s moth- transport — based on the is Henrietta, keeps get-
snaring some of the indus- the assault not be depict- er (played by Missi Pyle, theoretical movement of ting sent back to the small
try’s biggest players includ- ed as a “neat and tidy” “Gone Girl”) and others in objects from one point to town she is desperate to
ing Harvey Weinstein and incident that the charac- Henry’s world, its producers another, without crossing escape, allowing an ex-
Kevin Spacey. ter, Hassan’s Henry, easily said. the physical gap — might ploration of her and her
The emergence of the moves past, Le Franc said. Executive producer Doug seem to make for a super- life that gets “deeper and
anti-misconduct #MeToo It’s also pivotal to the sci-fi Limon, whose credits in- ficial show in which Henry is deeper,” Limon said.q

Expletives dot the Offred is on the run as

weekend TV comedy, ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ returns in April

sports landscape By LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The wrenching loss of an
— Expletives dotted the infant to a totalitarian so-
weekend television land- ciety is explored in season
scape. two of “The Handmaid’s
On “Saturday Night Live,” Tale,” star Elisabeth Moss
guest host Sam Rockwell and the show’s producers
let one slip during a skit. said.
He was playing an increas- The drama series based on
ingly frustrated TV science Margaret Atwood’s dys-
host trying to lead two topian novel begins with
clueless students through Moss’ character on the run
an experiment. when it returns April 25 on
“You can’t be this (exple- streaming service Hulu. Of-
tive) stupid!” Rockwell ex- fred, also known as June, is
claimed, immediately put- a pregnant “handmaid,” In a Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Elisabeth Moss arrives at
ting his hand to his mouth one of those used to breed the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar,
and saying “sorry” before children in a futuristic soci- in Santa Monica, Calif. Associated Press
continuing. “SNL” cast ety where many women
members Cecily Strong are infertile. tioned in Atwood’s 1985 “I don’t think anything we
and Mikey Day, playing the Moss said she and series book but not depicted, do is post-Atwood,” he
kids, also reacted. Strong In this Jan. 7, 2018, file photo, creator-executive produc- executive producer War- said. “It’s an expansion of
put her fingers in her ears Sam Rockwell poses in the er Bruce Miller often dis- ren Littlefield said. A bigger that world. I certainly don’t
and Day feigned an exag- press room with the award cussed “this child growing production budget helped think we’re going beyond
for best performance by an
gerated look of shock. actor in a supporting role in inside her as a bit of a tick- the series venture afield. the story that she was tell-
On the late-night show’s any motion picture for “Three ing time bomb,” one des- MGM Television and Hulu ing. She remains the moth-
“Weekend Update” seg- Billboards Outside Ebbing, tined to be born in tragic “embraced that we were er of the series.”
ment, anchor Colin Jost Missouri” at the 75th annual circumstances. ambitious. We’re still in a “The Handmaid’s Tale” is
mentioned President Don- Golden Globe Awards at the “When she does have the world of television, it’s a a landmark program for
ald Trump’s vulgar refer- Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly baby, the baby gets taken pretty controlled budget,” relatively new Hulu, draw-
Hills, Calif.
ence to African nations Associated Press away from her. She can’t Littlefield said. He didn’t of- ing critical acclaim, an
as “s-holes,” omitting the be its mother,” Moss said fer specific figures. armload of 2017 Emmys
expletive. told TV critics Sunday. “It Broadening the story and, earlier this month, a
He explained that NBC the president can say the makes for good drama.” doesn’t mean the series best series Golden Globe
asked him to clean up the full word, so can he. So he Season two also visits the will desert its source mate- and best-actress trophy for
quote. But Jost added if did.q colonies that are men- rial, Miller said. Moss. q