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Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

Bonus episode: Emmy nominee Mckenna Grace (aka 'Esther Keyes')

Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

SBS Audio

The Handmaid's Tale, Tv & Film, Podcast, Podcasts, Tv Shows, After Shows, Sbs

4.7650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's 2021 Emmy Awards season and we're back with another bonus episode, interviewing some of The Handmaid's Tale's incredible nominees. Today we invite Mckenna Grace into the Zoom room, or you may know her best as Mrs Esther Keyes. At 15, McKenna is the youngest nominee for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series. Mckenna talks of the sense of responsibility she feels to do justice to Esther's story; how she shot the salvaging scene in episode 401 'Pigs'; what the future holds for Esther and Janine; and her biggest fear during the season 4 COVID-19 shutdown: a growth spurt. We also talk about her upcoming star turn in the much-postponed 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife'. You can rewatch the box set of The Handmaid's Tale season 4 at SBS On Demand. Stay in touch on Twitter at #EyesOnGilead (Find us at: @anythingbutfifi / @NatalieHambly / @HaideeIreland / @Sana_Qadar)

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0:00.0

Miss Elizabeth Moss had taught me how to smoke the fake cigarettes already, and this little wife, she's just standing there in her dress, standing on a hay bale. You know, she's jumping up and down the hay bale, like kicking hay and smoking a cigarette.

0:22.6

You don't own me, I know your property, so think you're shifting little bitty eye over me.

0:29.6

It's wild.

0:30.6

I never would have thought in a million years.

0:32.6

Welcome to Eyes on Gileat, our podcast dedicated to The Handmaid's Tale.

0:36.6

There is a lot going on in this show, and we think it helps to talk it out, even when there

0:42.2

are no more episodes of the show for a little while until they make some more episodes for us.

0:47.7

I'm Fiona Williams, and I manage our online coverage of movies and TV here at SBS, and I'm

0:52.7

joined by my friends, colleagues and fellow

0:54.8

resistors. Natalie Hambly, managing editor of SBS Voices. Hello. Haiti Island, channel manager

1:00.9

of SBS On Demand. Hello. And Sana Khadar, host of All In The Mind for ABC Radio National.

1:07.5

Hi, hi. Hello. We're back for another bonus episode of this mini series of

1:14.1

conversations with Emmy nominees because as we know, The Handmaid's Tale landed a record number

1:19.6

of Emmy nominations for the series going into the Emmy Awards, which will be upon us very soon.

1:26.2

So we've had just the best time having a chat

1:29.2

with some of the show's outstanding nominees. And look, today is no exception. I don't know

1:35.3

if you noticed. There was a character introduced this year who she made quite an impression

1:40.6

when she came onto the scene in episode one of season four.

1:46.6

Little Esther, little Esther Keyes.

1:50.3

What a debut.

1:51.6

We're very pleased to have joining us in our Zoom room today, McKenna Grace, who plays Esther

1:56.9

Keyes, and she is nominated and a hot favourite in the category of outstanding guest

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