Influences and experiences, and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. Creativity was clear. Home economics creativity was clear. Home economics opera, creativity was clear. Home economics opera, It Creativity was clear. Home economics opera, it was i creativity was clear. Home economics opera, it was about fabrics. ,. , economics opera, it was about fabrics. ,. ,. , fabrics. Can you remember how it noes . Fabrics. Can you remember how it goes . It fabrics. Can you remember how it goes . It makes fabrics. Can you remember how it goes . It makes them fabrics. Can you remember how it goes . It makes them feel it goes . It makes them feel ust like it goes . It makes them feel just like new. Margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. On this programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity, and your first choice is your parents. Yes. Tell me about your parents.
since world war ii, and the audience there was very different. watched it very intently. said, this was our life, meaning you couldn t trust anybody and people are constantly ratting each other out. so that contract for that film contained a series television, um, arrangement. and in those days, series television was dallas, or it was daytime soap. and the thought that anybody in that period would make a television show out of the handmaid s tale, the thought was was, possibility, zero. that s never going to happen. the film was sold to a distributor, the distributor eventually went belly up, assets were dispersed, the contract disappeared. so, people came for a year saying, can we make something out of the handmaid s
of the handmaid s tale again? and we would have to say, we don t know who s got the contract. we really didn t. wow! then, somebody opened a drawer at mgm and there was the contract. just when series television streaming started up, which is a perfect way of doing a longer novel. and that led to an led to an appetite for. that led to. ..serious, gritty drama.? that led to the possibility of this happening. blessed be the fruit. may the lord open. and the showrunner was a guy called bruce miller, who had read this in high school and he promised himself that when he grew up, he was going to make the handmaid s tale. so, he knew everything about it and talked himself into the job. are you surprised, or maybe disturbed, at the continuing relevance 40 years after you wrote that book? well, it had periods