You South Africa – 22 August 2019

Theacclaimedstarof

TheHandmaid’sTale

is ina grittynewfilm

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Elisabeth Moss

MOBDRAMATheactressshows

her bad-ass side in the ’70s mob

drama The Kitchen, in which she

co-stars alongside Melissa McCar-

thy and Tiffany Haddish as wives

who take over their gangster hus-

bands’ operations in Hell’s Kitchen

in New York after the men are jailed.

Elisabeth (36) plays the timid wife

of an abusive man and falls in love

with the violence of her new life.

“We all know what a Mafia story

looks like but seeing it from a wom-

an’s perspective and in a really

grounded, gritty and intense way,

was something entirely different,”

director Andrea Berloff says.

CONTROVERSY Elisabeth is a prac-

tising Scientologist, which some

have questioned as being at odds

with the feminist roles she’s had. She

declines to comment, saying only,

“It’sbeenmychoiceto keep certain

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FASTFAC T S

1

Shewasreportedlypaid$1mil-

lion(R15m)perepisodeforThe

Handmaid’sTale.

2

Shewasraisedina hippyenclave

inCaliforniabyherparents,Ron

andLindaMoss,bothjazzmusicians.

HerfatherisEnglishandhermompart

Swedish.

3

Shewasoncebestieswithfel-

lowScientologistandactress

LeahRemini(49)butpartedways

whenLeahleftthechurchin2013.

4

Shewantedtobea profes-

sionaldancerandwentto

NewYorktostudyballet– but

actingsooneclipseddance.

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LEFT: Elisabeth

Moss (right)

with Tiffany

Haddish (left)

and Me lissa

McCarthy in

a scene from

The Kitchen.

ABOVE:

With Janine

Lindo in the

TV series

The Hand-

maid’s

Tale.

things private, because otherwise it

feels as if you don’t have anything

that’s personal. What’s important to

me is in my work. Often the things I

stand for, the things that mean

something to me and my heart, I try

to put into my work.”

LOVE-LIFE Her faith was said to be

a big factor in the breakdown of her

eight-month marriage to actor

Fred Armisen in 2010. She went

on to call the relationship “ex-

tremely traumatic”. Today she

refuses to name who she’s

dating. “I’ve learnt that you

just don’t talk about it.”

She’d love to have kids one

day, but in the meantime she

fusses over her two cats, Lucy and

Ethel, and lives “like an 82-year-

old” in her Manhattan apartment.

“My days of going out to bars

have passed. It’s literally a glass

of wine, a lot of ordering in and

putting something on the iPad.

I think, in a relationship espe-

cially, you have to have that

normalcy.”

SOURCES: PEOPLE.COM, INDEPENDENT.CO.UK,

VULTURE.COM, MARIECLAIRE.COM, VOGUE.COM,

THEGUARDIAN.COM

‘There are certain

people I want to work

with and certain things

I want to do but I’m not

one of those people

who’s hungry and has

to work all the time’

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