“A cocktail party seems to dash all that significance,” Whitford said in an interview on The Talk
, who plays Joseph Lawrence on the Hulu series, was asked about the Gilead-themed party that the young“I don’t know, it seems a little tacky?” Whitford said in an interview on. He seemed sheepish at first, but as he continued, he got more comfortable explaining his problem with the party, a detailed affair that included Jenner and her friends dressing up in the show’s trademark red robes and bonnets.
“That costume is so kind of iconic, and it’s interesting how it’s changed from initially a symbol of oppression to now, as the show is moving ahead, to a symbol of resistance. So yeah, a cocktail party seems to dash all that significance,” Whitford said, laughing.’s birthday. She went all out on the theme, hiring women to dress up and act as Marthas and serving drinks with names like “Praise Be vodka” and “Under His Eye tequila.
The party earned Jenner instant backlash, not least because the show revolves around a world in which where women are violently oppressed by men. The titular handmaids are considered a lower class of women, forced to submit to ritualistic rape so that they can have babies for the mostly infertile, upper class women.
for protests that revolve around women’s rights. Jenner’s exuberance at wearing the costumes for a birthday party seemed, at the very least, in poor taste. Wonder what
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