Elisabeth Moss reveals Handmaid’s Tale crew member asked to keep her character’s underwear

Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss has shared a shocking discovery she made after filming wrapped on the final season.

Actor Elisabeth Moss has revealed that she asked for her character’s underwear as a keepsake after the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale finished filming last month — only to learn that an unknown crew member had already requested the custom undergarments, reports the New York Post.

Moss, who plays June Osborne in the hit series, told the surprising story on the Tuesday, March 25, episode of US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The Emmy-winning actress said that she made the request in a production-wide email, which was when she learned a mystery crew member had already beaten her to it.

“Wait a minute. This is your custom underwear that you wore, and some creep on the staff requested it — in writing requested it?” Kimmel, 57, responded.

“Like, ‘I want Elisabeth’s underpants. I’m gonna take ’em home. I’m gonna put ’em in storage for a while.’”

Moss stars in The Handmaid’s Tale as June Osborne.

Even though the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped filming on February 10, Moss, 42, said that she still does not know who the crew member who wanted her character’s undies was.

“I don’t wanna know,” she said.

“I went to work with these people!” Moss added when pressed by Kimmel. “I don’t wanna know who wants my underwear! I didn’t think anyone would want it!”

Kimmel, meanwhile, could not get over the absurdity of the entire situation.

“What kind of a crazy thing is that to say?!” he emphasised. “Oh my God, I hope it’s a woman.”

“I mean, really,” Kimmel continued. “Someone made a formal request for your underwear — like in writing, in an email — that they shared with other people. We need to know who that person is.”

Moss then agreed to return to Kimmel’s show the moment she learns who the mystery Handmaid’s Tale crew member was.

The actress’ story left Kimmel stunned.

“Maybe we’ll have some kind of live, pay-per-view thing where we announce the name,” Kimmel joked.

“At the end of the season, maybe you can tack on a little post-show on (US streamer) Hulu in which you reveal who took the underwear,” the comedian added. “It’ll be like ‘The Bachelor Men Tell All’ special.”

But while Moss was unable to score all the souvenirs she wanted from the set of The Handmaid’s Tale, the actress did confirm that she was able to take some special items home from the set of Mad Men after its final season in May 2015.

“I took my chair. The last chair that I sat in as Peggy, this purple chair,” Moss said. “But it’s not a very nice chair, so it’s just in storage. I don’t know what to do with it! I don’t know why I have a chair.”

As for the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, the actress said it is an appropriate time for the story to end.

“We don’t want to overstay our welcome,” she told Kimmel. “You always want to kind of be the people that you leave the party early and I think our story is coming to a close.”

The last season of The Handmaid’s Tale, which is based on author Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, premieres on April 8 on SBS On Demand with a three-episode drop.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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