Thanks to Joseph Fiennes, This Chilling Scene on The Handmaid’s Tale Didn’t Happen
Don't get it twisted: The Handmaid's Tale's Commander Fred Waterford is a horrible human being with a preference for sickening, predatory behavior.
If it wasn't for the actor who plays him - Joseph Fiennes - the audience would have seen even more of his disgusting ways during a key season two episode.
Apparently Fiennes put his foot down after reading the script for the Waterfords's trip to Canada and seeing a particularly stomach-churning scene.
Fiennes revealed to Entertainment Weekly that his character was supposed to rape his wife Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) during their diplomatic trip."I guess in many ways, as abhorrent and nasty and evil as Fred is, I have to defend parts of him.
In episode nine, we had a moment where Fred was going to - after meeting Luke - rape Serena in a hotel room straight after, and it just didn't track for me," he said.
