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If you\u2019ve read\u00a0The Testaments<\/a><\/em>, Margaret Atwood<\/a>\u2018s sequel to The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/em>, and watched\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> TV show on Hulu<\/a>, you know that there\u2019s been a major change to the character of Daisy. While much of Daisy\u2019s essence is maintained in the series adaptation, adapted by the creator of Hulu\u2019s\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a>, there is one major difference that sets the show apart from its source material. We asked the creator, Bruce Miller<\/a>, to explain the change.\u00a0Warning: Spoilers for\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> Episodes 1-3 and\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> novel ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set about four years after the\u00a0events of\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u00a0series finale<\/a>,\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> 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, having 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.<\/p>\n

Chase Infiniti<\/a> stars as Agnes\/Hannah, the daughter of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss<\/a>) and Luke Bankole (O-T Fagbenle<\/a>), who was kidnapped as a child by Gilead and placed with a commander and his wife, who renamed her. Lucy Halliday<\/a> stars as Daisy, one of Aunt Lydia\u2019s Pearl Girls, immigrant girls who want to live Gilead\u2019s way of life and hopefully become wives. As revealed in the premiere\u2019s first three episodes, Daisy is actually working undercover for Mayday in Gilead after the regime murdered her parents in Toronto. Daisy\u2019s backstory featured a long cameo from Moss<\/a>, reprising her Emmy-winning role as June from The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>. June is mentioned throughout\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> book. While she doesn\u2019t actually show up until the end, her presence is felt throughout. In the Hulu series, June appears early on, when she meets Daisy after Melanie and Neil\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n

June reveals to Daisy that Melanie and Neil are Mayday operatives and aren\u2019t her biological parents, but rather adoptive ones who took her in after she was liberated from Gilead as a young child. This mostly aligns with The Testaments<\/em> book plot, with one huge caveat: Daisy is actually Nichole, June, and Nick\u2019s (Max Minghella<\/a>) daughter. Baby Nichole became a martyr symbol in Gilead in\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> after she was taken to Canada. In the book, she returns undercover as a Pearl Girl to try to take down Gilead through Mayday\u2019s resistance efforts. Hannah and Nichole meet in The Testaments<\/em> book, but they don\u2019t learn they are half-sisters until later.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bigger time jump between the plots of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u00a0<\/em>and The<\/em> Testaments<\/em> novel than there is between the two shows, so the timing didn\u2019t work out to have Daisy be Nichole in\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> TV show. But Miller tells TV Insider, \u201cThere is a Nichole. You actually get hints about her through the season that she exists with June in Toronto.\u201d He explains the thought process behind the big Daisy change, sharing why they made her a chosen daughter for June instead.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust [as] The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> book is the prequel to\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> book,\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> show is the prequel to\u00a0The Testaments<\/em> show, so there are things that just didn\u2019t line up,\u201d Miller says. \u201cThe other thing is, honestly, in the book, [Daisy and Agnes] are not the same age, the story just takes place over a very long period of time, and they\u2019re not in the same area together, although they talk about the same area there lots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seemed to make dramatic sense that they needed to be together. All the stories that Daisy was going through would be fascinating with Hannah there, and all of the Agnes stories are fascinating with Daisy there, and that was the core relationship of the show,\u201d he goes on. \u201cSo, I had to make a decision just based on the reality of things, and I didn\u2019t want to just blow past logic, so I decided to not make this person Nichole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller wanted to maintain every book detail about Daisy that he could, despite the change. This included choosing an actor who resembled Moss in a way, to make their familial, while not biological, bond feel fated.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this character, I wanted to change as little as possible,\u201d Miller explains. \u201cIn some ways, not only is she a chosen daughter, she looks a little like June, she acts like June. All those things were kind of my choice, kind of Lucy, kind of Lucy acting with Elisabeth Moss and starting to take on those mannerisms because they\u2019re so fascinating with each other. There was a lot of evolution to it through the actors. And also, they liked each other quite a bit, so there was this character of June, but this actress of June, and interacting with her has filled out all sorts of cool stuff in Daisy because Lucy is such a thoughtful actor. So, I tried to make her as much at the core like Nichole as I could, but the ways it\u2019s blooming, it\u2019s blooming in its own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to find out how Daisy continues to act like June, and if Agnes remembers anything about her real mother.<\/p>\n

The Testaments<\/strong><\/em>, Wednesdays, Hulu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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