Rowan Blanchard Joins The Cast Of The Testaments

Rowan Blanchard has landed a new role! The young actress is set to star in the upcoming sequel to the hit TV series, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments.

According to Deadline, “Blanchard stars as Shunammite, a pampered teen from a prominent Gilead family whose status affords her a certain level of respect and power amongst her peers.” The site goes on to say, The Testaments takes place in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. The series is a coming-of-age story that finds a new generation of young women in Gilead, grappling with the bleak future that awaits them. For these young women, growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known. They had no tangible memories of the outside world before their indoctrination into this life. Facing the prospect of being married off and living a life of servitude, they will be forced to search for allies, both new and old, to help in their fight for freedom and the life they deserve.”

Congrats to Rowan!