Elisabeth Moss Was Ready for Some Fun After ‘Handmaid’s Tale.’ Cue ‘Imperfect Women’

After spending nearly a decade in the dark world of Gilead as star of The Handmaid’s Tale, Elisabeth Moss is onto some lighter — though still murderous — fare.

The actress has been developing an adaptation of Araminta Hall’s novel Imperfect Women since 2019, following three longtime friends whose lives are upended when one of them is murdered and secrets start to be uncovered.

It wasn’t Moss’ specific plan to have the series be her Handmaid’s follow-up — as the project faced delays due to the pandemic and Hollywood strikes — “but I did know that I wanted to do something very different from Handmaid’s, and much more fun and much more entertaining and more of a water cooler show,” she told The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s L.A. premiere on Tuesday.

“Not going to lie, it’s nice,” Moss confirmed of the change of pace. “Shooting in L.