Elisabeth Moss sports painful-looking forehead gash on the Toronto set of The Handmaid's Tale
Elisabeth Moss sported a painful-looking scratch on her forehead while acting on the Toronto set of The Handmaid's Tale on Monday.
But the 34-year-old Golden Globe winner's gash was likely all for the cameras as she filmed a snowy scene for the Hulu dystopian drama series.
Between takes, the Top of the Lake actress snuck in a few puffs of a cigarette in her trailer.
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Ouch! Elisabeth Moss sported a painful-looking scratch on her forehead while acting on the Toronto set of The Handmaid's Tale on Monday
Elsewhere, similarly scarlet-clad extras - also playing reproductive servants - cooled their Puritan-style heels outside a large white tent.
In it, Moss portrays a rebellious mother renamed Offred, who's forced into sexual slavery to provide offspring for a military commander (Joseph Fiennes) and his barren wife.
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Costume designer Ane Crabtree crafted Elisabeth's distinctively red handmaid dress, which identifies her character's subservient position in the Republic of Gilead.
The Handmaid's Tale - helmed by female director Reed Morano (Meadowland) - is based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood bestseller of the same name.
Action! But the 34-year-old Golden Globe winner's gash was likely all for the cameras as she filmed a snowy scene for the Hulu dystopian drama series
Nicotine fix: Between takes, the Top of the Lake actress snuck in a few puffs of a cigarette in her trailer
Red Center: Elsewhere, similarly scarlet-clad extras - also playing reproductive servants - cooled their Puritan-style heels outside a large white tent
'I worked [on the show] the day after the election,' Moss said at the TCA Press Tour last month - according to Esquire.
'Joseph had a line from the book where he says "Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some." I just got chills talking about it.
'It was very difficult to stand there and have him say that to me and play my reaction to that, which is obviously horror, and not feel something more than I think I would have felt otherwise. We are fascinated and horrified by the parallels.'
Breeder: In it, Moss portrays a rebellious mother renamed Offred, who's forced into sexual slavery to provide offspring for a military commander (Joseph Fiennes) and his barren wife
Fitting: Costume designer Ane Crabtree crafted Elisabeth's distinctively red handmaid dress, which identifies her character's subservient position in the Republic of Gilead
Research: The Handmaid's Tale - helmed by female director Reed Morano (Meadowland) - is based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood bestseller of the same name
The Mad Men alum admitted: 'I would never be a copywriter in the 1950s, I would never be a detective in Australia but, if Gilead happened now, I would be a handmaid. That was something I latched onto from the beginning and found very affecting.'
The futuristic feminist survival story also features Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, and Max Minghella.
Hulu dropped the latest trailer for The Handmaid's Tale during Sunday's Super Bowl and the 10-episode series officially premieres April 26.
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![Moss said at the TCA Press Tour: 'I worked [on the show] the day after the election...We are fascinated and horrified by the parallels' (pictured January 7)](http://web.archive.org./web/20190425030500im_/https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/07/03/3CE8DF6A00000578-4198236-image-a-98_1486439302433.jpg)
Moss said at the TCA Press Tour: 'I worked [on the show] the day after the election...We are fascinated and horrified by the parallels' (pictured January 7)
The Mad Men alum admitted: 'I would never be a copywriter in the 1950s, I would never be a detective in Australia but, if Gilead happened now, I would be a handmaid. That was something I latched onto from the beginning and found very affecting'
'Just a casual robe party on set': The futuristic feminist survival story also features Joseph Fiennes (M), Samira Wiley (R), Alexis Bledel, and Max Minghella
Coming soon! Hulu dropped the latest trailer for The Handmaid's Tale during Sunday's Super Bowl and the 10-episode series officially premieres April 26
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