Aunt Lydia Clements

No longer kneeling at the foot of the bed, knees on the hard wood of the gym floor.

Aunt Elizabeth standing by the double doors, arms folded, cattle prod hung on her belt, while Aunt Lydia strides along the rows of kneeling night-gowned women, hitting our backs or feet or bums or arms lightly, just a flick, a tap, with her wooden pointer if we slouch or slacken.

She wanted our heads bowed just right, our toes together and pointed, our elbows at the proper angle.

Part of her interest in this was aesthetic.

it's definitely, I would say, not godly.

This is 100% the horned up men making this up.

And the creepy Aunt Lydia's who also enjoy participating.

Some of them would get carried away with this, the ecstasy of a basement.

Yes.

You have Ann Dowd returning to play Aunt Lydia, a character she has shaped over multiple seasons of television, far beyond what was written in the original 1985 novel.

And you have Bruce Miller, the architect of the TV show, guiding the transition.

Right.

Six years old, and there I was spooning this soup with too much pepper in it into her mouth, just crying and begging her to eat.

After she left me with my Aunt Lydia, I just kept thinking maybe she's in a sanitarium.

You know, maybe someone found her and took her somewhere she could heal.

I remember the day that I stopped expecting her to show up again.

And you stayed with it

... who are supposed to be good." And my favorite character was Aunt Lydia, the, the horrible person.

I'm like I was rooting for her so... [laughs]

Oh my goodness.

I have to say I'm a little starstruck.

I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale.

Mike Pence, if you haven't seen it, you would love it.

Every time Sarah steps up to the podium, I get excited because I'm not really sure what we're gonna get.