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\nChase Infiniti is too humble to use this vernacular, but prepare to be sick of her (in the best way possible). After scoring Actor and Golden Globe nominations for her first lead role in a feature film for One Battle After Another <\/em>this past Oscar season, Infiniti has now received an Emmy nomination for her first lead role in a TV series (and only her second TV role ever after appearing in David E. Kelley\u2019s Presumed Innocent<\/em>), which, at the very least, means more eye-catching red carpet fashion from her along the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI love that I get to wear pieces of art, literally, to all of these events, so I\u2019m excited to have it keep going,\u201d says Infiniti on the morning that her nomination for her portrayal of Agnes MacKenzie in Hulu\u2019s The Testaments<\/em> was announced. \u201c[My stylists, Wayman + Micah, are] the ones who create these incredible, catered looks for everything that we want to do, and they get me so well. I credit all of my fashion press to them because that is not me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWardrobe is a defining status symbol in Gilead, the setting of the dystopian sequel to The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/em>based on Margaret Atwood\u2019s 2019 novel The Testaments<\/em>. When we first meet Agnes (named Hannah Bankole in the original series), she\u2019s layered in purple garments, establishing her as a plum, a girl who has not yet reached menstruation. When she gets her period in episode two, she\u2019s elevated to a green, the color she later wears to signify her eligibility for marriage during a debutante-style ball where she and her peers are paraded before much older commanders seeking young, fertile brides.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels almost like a uniform,\u201d says Infiniti of the modest, structured dresses she and her castmates wore. \u201cYou feel like you\u2019re ready to go to battle, in a way. You feel the restriction that Gilead has on these girls. And those initial feelings of restriction, of being overly aware of how you\u2019re moving in these costumes, and in the world, and also the level of posture and attitude that these girls have to have \u2014 they really have to make sure that they\u2019re the most well-presented girls in this society \u2014 you feel that from the second that you put on those costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn episode two\u2019s \u201cPerfect Teeth,\u201d Agnes not only symbolically loses her innocence, it\u2019s stripped of her when, during a visit to the dentist, Dr. Grove (Randal Edwards) \u2014 her best friend Becka\u2019s (Mattea Conforti) father \u2014 touches her breasts. When Becka, who\u2019s secretly in love with Agnes, later learns that her dad molested her and another young plum, Hulda (Isolde Ardies), she stabs him to death and runs to Agnes\u2019 home in a bloody nightgown in the middle of the night to suggest they run away together. Agnes tells her parents, believing they\u2019ll help Becka. Instead, Becka\u2019s arrested by the Eyes and placed in a women\u2019s detention center.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe tipping-point episodes were the hardest ones to do in my mind, specifically episode nine, when Agnes realizes that Gilead is not able to protect Becka,\u201d says Infiniti. \u201cAnd the moments where Agnes sees her world collapsing and crumbling in front of her, outside of what she\u2019s been promised. Those are the harder moments because so much of the season is a gradual build toward episode 10, and I wanted to make sure that I got them right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the Television Academy, Infiniti did. The actress garnered the sole nomination for The Testaments <\/em>in a cast filled out by four-time Emmy nominee and 2017 supporting actress winner for The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> Ann Dowd, who returns as Aunt Lydia, the militaristic matriarch of the elite girls preparatory school; newcomer Lucy Halliday, an undercover Mayday operative named Daisy who enters Gilead as a pearl girl; and Elisabeth Moss, the 2017 lead actress in a drama Emmy winner who accumulated another three nods for her turn as June Osborne, a leader in the Mayday resistance mission and the biological mother of Agnes \u2014 a fact Agnes learns in the Testaments <\/em>finale that foreshadows her resolve to fight against the rigid theocracy.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s literally the encyclopedia of the Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/em>universe, so getting to have her be there on set and be there as a producer, she made herself readily available for both me and Lucy and for the rest of the girls to ask any kind of question that we had,\u201d says Infiniti of Moss\u2019 guest-starring return. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019m eternally grateful for because getting to hear the process of living in Gilead from somebody who\u2019s been doing it for so long in that world was such a wonderful thing to have access to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, shedding the harsh realities of life as a young girl without agency in Gilead was a practice Infiniti had to master both for her character and herself. \u201c[Agnes] has a lot of love and a lot of light in her core. That is something that even from that first script that I read of The Testaments,<\/em> I gravitated toward, and I really wanted to make sure I took care of because it\u2019s also something that you can feel within The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the real-world connection to the plight of the women and girls in the series, she adds, \u201cI definitely have more thoughts about the world of Gilead when I see something happen that doesn\u2019t seem, unfortunately, too far from reality. That\u2019s the thing that I think about the most outside of the show, and the thing that terrifies me the most is there are things that happen in the show that are happening in real life and are continuing to happen in real life, both in our own country and culture, and also globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReceiving acclaim for those realistic portrayals still doesn\u2019t feel real to Infiniti. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it, honestly. It\u2019s an honor in general because I know that Agnes and the character of Hannah is so beloved, but, also, I feel so grateful because there\u2019s no way that I could have done even half the work that I did on that show without my cast and my crew,\u201d says the Emmy first-timer, who\u2019s looking forward to fostering and forging new relationships with her fellow nominees.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI met Carrie Coon for the first time a couple months ago, and I\u2019m a massive fan of hers, so I\u2019m excited to see her and be in company with other people who are nominated, like Zendaya,\u201d says Infiniti. \u201cI met Rhea Seehorn at the Golden Globes luncheon, and I\u2019ve had the wonderful honor of getting to see her at all of these different events. So getting to see the friends that I\u2019ve made already and also meet new ones is something that I\u2019m really looking forward to. I feel so grateful that I can call them friends and companions because I truly do look up to them so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThis story first appeared in a July stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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