D’Arcy Carden on her ‘dream come true’ joining ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Phoebe’s ‘different Aunt energy’
Warning: The following story contains spoilers for the seventh episode of The Handmaid's Tale's sixth and final season, streaming now on Hulu.
D'Arcy Carden has been critically beloved for her comedic work, most notably on The Good Place (for which she also nabbed an Emmy nomination), and most recently on both A Man on the Inside and Nobody Wants This. But all the while she has been a "gigantic fan" of one of the most serious dramas on television: The Handmaid's Tale. Her personal and professional worlds finally collided in the sixth and final season of the Hulu series, when she got a call to play Phoebe, an Aunt who works alongside Lydia (Ann Dowd) while secretly aiding Mayday.
"I definitely wouldn't have dreamed of getting to play a character like Phoebe," Carden tells Gold Derby about stepping into the world of dystopian drama for its final few episodes.
D'Arcy Carden has been critically beloved for her comedic work, most notably on The Good Place (for which she also nabbed an Emmy nomination), and most recently on both A Man on the Inside and Nobody Wants This. But all the while she has been a "gigantic fan" of one of the most serious dramas on television: The Handmaid's Tale. Her personal and professional worlds finally collided in the sixth and final season of the Hulu series, when she got a call to play Phoebe, an Aunt who works alongside Lydia (Ann Dowd) while secretly aiding Mayday.
"I definitely wouldn't have dreamed of getting to play a character like Phoebe," Carden tells Gold Derby about stepping into the world of dystopian drama for its final few episodes.
- 5/6/2025
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Gold Derby
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