The Handmaid’s Tale’s Max Minghella Explains [Spoiler]’s Death & Final Moments

Within the wake of the discharge of The Handmaid’s Story Season 6’s penultimate episode, actor Max Minghella has come out to share his views on the surprising loss of life of Commander Nick Blaine. The Teen Spirit star not solely opened up concerning the remaining moments of his character on the present, impressed by Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the identical title, but in addition make clear the trajectory of Nick’s sophisticated relationship with Elisabeth Moss’ June.

The Handmaid’s Story’s actor on how chemistry with June led to Nick’s loss of life

In a current interview, Max Minghella famous that Nick speaking about June simply moments earlier than his loss of life within the remaining season of The Handmaid’s Story was really “in keeping with the character.”

The actor spoke to Selection from a movie set in Wales about his character’s demise within the critically acclaimed Hulu sequence. He shared, “It felt very poignant — and in keeping with the character and the way he’s functioned within the present. He’s actually been pushed by that relationship. It additionally was beautiful to complete with Bradley [Whitford], who has turn into such a pricey good friend outdoors the present. That felt proper to me, too.”

Commander Nick Blaine’s loss of life happens in The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 Episode 9 after he unknowingly boards a flight laced with explosives. Bradley Whitford’s Commander Joseph Lawrence is the one who executes the plot to explode the Commanders-only aircraft. Nonetheless, after Josh Charles’ Commander Wharton invitations Joseph on the flight, he forcefully obliges with a purpose to keep his cowl. As such, each Wharton and Lawrence, together with the unsuspecting Nick, find yourself shedding their lives within the chaotic episode.

Max Minghella additionally talked concerning the evolution of his character’s relationship with Elisabeth Moss’s June. He mentioned, “The Nick and June relationship has been a reprieve from the extra tense thematic parts of the present. And so to floor that relationship, then, into a number of the darker, extra nihilistic factors of view that we’ve got to discover in ‘The Handmaid’s Story,’ I used to be stunned by it.”

Having showcased the loss of life of three Excessive Commanders, together with Nick, Episode 9 of The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 appears to have completely arrange the stage for the sequence finale. It should air on Hulu subsequent Tuesday on Might 27, 2025.