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Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election
Margaret Atwood was “the only person who benefited from the election of Donald Trump”, her agent told her soon after the US presidential election in November 2016.
The television drama version of The Handmaid’s Tale had begun filming in the run-up to Trump’s divisive win. “We woke up the morning after and there was Donald Trump, and we all said to ourselves, ‘we are now [working on] a different show’,” Atwood told an audience at the Hay literary festival.
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