Q&A with actor Sam Jaeger on The Handmaid's Tale and Devil in Ohio. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.
The Handmaid's Tale - Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her.
Devil in Ohio - A psychiatrist takes in a young patient who escaped from a cult, putting her family and life in danger.