No, thank you.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you for having me.
It's so good to be here.
How cool.
Now, listen.
I've got to ask because we--
when I say "we," my wife and I love the show so much.
And the show is so popular.
Do you get recognized a lot?
Actually, yeah-- now, even though I changed my hair.
But a lot of the times, people are
looking at me, side eyeing me, not sure.
And I will just look at them and give them a little--
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
And then they know exactly who I am.
And it's great.
I don't even have to say anything.
That's amazing.
You know what's great about that, too, is that even coming
to do the show I was, guess who is going to be on the show?
And she was, who?
I was trying to explain it.
And I was, you know, from Handmaid's?
And then she was, oh yeah.
I love her.
Yeah, it's the same kind of thing.
Yeah, it's this a lot.
Now, this season has a lot of deaths in it this season.
Now, were you ever at the table reads, just
scared to open the script?
Every time.
Every time?
Every time.
The thing about being on a show like The Handmaid's Tale
is that there's really no job security.
Right.
There's just hope.
Right.
Hope and pray that you're coming back.
But no, I've really been a cat with nine lives this season.
Yeah.
And also, talk about fortunate, before Handmaid's Tale,
you were actually in Orange is the New Black.
Yes.
And I understand that that was your first audition.
Yes.
Crazy.
I just went out on an audition.
I had had this agent that signed me, thank goodness.
And she was like, go out for it.
It's not really your thing.
I wanted to do musical theater.
I read the description.
And I thought it was a web series.
Netflix was still DVDs at that time.
So I was like, OK, cool.
I'll try it out.
See what happens.
I ended up booking it.
I booked the first episode that I shot.
And then I ended up doing seven, and it was really wonderful.
It was really cool.
Another show-- no job security.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And I understand that your first day of filming
didn't really end that well.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah, so-- oh gosh.
Look at her.
[LAUGHTER]
So that's what I looked like.
That's from my first day on set.
That's actually from that day.
I had shot a 16-hour day that day.
And it was my first day on set.
And I was just exhausted.
We were shooting in Queens.
I lived in Queens.
It's a 12-minute walk.
I'm going to just walk home.
I didn't take out my cornrows.
I didn't take off my neck tattoo.
I looked probably tougher than I've ever
looked in my entire life.
And I got robbed in Queens under the NQ train.
And yeah it was horrifying.
But then, I was freaking out.
I went to a Dunkin' Donuts.
They took me in.
Right.
I called my mom.
And I said, mom, I just got robbed.
And I'm crying.
And she goes, well, you're a real New Yorker now.
Because you got robbed.
That's the full experience right there.
I just got it out of the way, yeah.
Absolutely.
Now, I just want to switch gears for a second
because we've got to talk about this.
I understand that you want to play Madonna.
I'm just saying, just because of your track record, too,
it's like first audition-- boom--
Handmaid's Tale-- boom.
I just feel like what you put out and what you forecast,
and it's just awesome.
So please, tell us about that.
If there is anything that I love--
I love Madonna--
I love working with women.
I love stories about women.
I love the women that I've been able to play, especially
this season opening up a little bit more of Janine's backstory.
And I don't have those arms, but I'll work on it.
[LAUGHTER]
But there's some resemblance--
a little bit.
Agree.
I'm a singer.
I'm an actor.
I can dance.
I just--
Absolutely.
I feel like I've got a few tricks up my sleeve.
That's perfect.
We are excited to see whatever happens.
As a matter of fact, we've got to go to a break.
But I would like to Vogue with you at least because if you're
going to do Madonna, you're going
to have to Vogue a little bit.
Come on.
Let's see what you've got.
Y'all, give it up one more time for Madeline Brewer.
You can stream The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu
and catch the season finale this Wednesday.