A small role in Syriana (2005) as George Clooney's son followed. ![]() He played his first lead role in Art School Confidential (2006), as a young man who finds art school more daunting than he'd anticipated. In 2006, he filmed a role in Elvis and Anabelle, starring alongside Blake Lively and Mary Steenburgen. ![]() Since then he's appeared in several small budget films, including How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009), Agora (2010), About Alex (2014) and Into the Forest (2016). In 2017, he was chosen to play Nick Blaine in the Hulu TV series The Handmaid's Tale and has appeared in all four seasons to date. He also plays a starring role in the horror film Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021), alongside Chris Rock.It’s been a painfully long hiatus for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, which wrapped its third season way back in the summer of 2019 and finally returns with new episodes this week. But for fans of Max Minghella’s Nick Blaine, the wait has been even longer. Nick, a morally conflicted but increasingly powerful cog in the Gilead machine, disappeared midway through season 3 when he was sent away to fight on the front lines in Chicago. This came shortly after June’s devastating discovery that Nick played a key role in the war that allowed Gilead to seize power in the first place.īut in season 4, Nick is back with a vengeance-and so is June and Nick’s forbidden romance. In episode 3, titled “The Crossing,” June is captured, tortured, and blackmailed into giving up the location of her fellow Handmaids. She’s then told that she, along with Janine, Alma and the rest of the escapees, will be sent to a “breeding colony” to live out the rest of their days. As June crosses over a bridge to meet her fate, she shares a moment of tenderness with Nick, who’s been waiting in the wings all along, trying his best to keep her safe within the confines of his position as a foot soldier. Esther KeyesĪnd then, in a perfectly executed moment of pure romantic escapism, she turns back, runs to him, and kisses him. It's an uncharacteristically swoon-worthy moment for the show-and a much-needed moment of respite in the middle of a brutally dark episode. Below, Minghella speaks to about how Elisabeth Moss directed that moment, how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted shooting, and what a post-Gilead life might look like for Nick. I want to talk about the sequence on the bridge at the end of episode 3. From the performances to the writing to the camerawork, it felt kind of like a gift to fans of June and Nick’s relationship. I think that these two characters find real refuge in one another, and I think in a sort of meta way, that narrative also ends up being a sort of refuge within the context of the show. ![]() The show is pretty heavy a lot of the time, and that relationship hopefully alleviates some of the tension. In terms of episode 3, it was wonderful to shoot those scenes because of what Lizzie brought to it as a filmmaker. The way the camera swoops 360 degrees around them is such a fun, deliberately heightened choice. Yeah, I teased that she’s like Michael Bay meets Mike Lee. There’s a spectacle to the way she shoots, and a rigor to the way she shoots that is so impressive and so technically accomplished. I don’t want to speak for her, but I think she had fun with it.Īnd then she’s also amazing with actors, and I think pushed me harder than I’ve been pushed before.
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