{"id":3155,"date":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/did-you-notice-surprise-celebrity-cameo-handmaids-tale\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"did-you-notice-surprise-celebrity-cameo-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/did-you-notice-surprise-celebrity-cameo-handmaids-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you notice the surprise celebrity cameo in The Handmaid\u2019s Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> fans have been sent into a frenzy after realising none other than Oprah Winfrey made a surprise cameo in the most recent episode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;host appears on the show when Offred (Elizabeth Moss) tries to escape Gilead in a car in an abandoned house. When she turns on the radio she hears the reassuring message from Oprah!<\/p>\n\n<p>In a presidential type announcement, Oprah says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBroadcasting from somewhere in the great white north. And now this news: the American government in Anchorage received promise of economic aid from India and China.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the United Kingdom, additional sanctions on Gilead were announced, as well as plans to raise the cap on American refugees relocating from Canada.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She goes to say before playing Bruce Springsteen\u2019s song \u2018Hungry Heart\u2019:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNow a tune to remind everyone whose listening \u2014 American patriot or Gilead traitor \u2014 that we are still here. Stars and stripes forever, baby.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking with <em>Entertainment Weekly Radio<\/em>, show writer and producer Kira Snyder said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI did not know at the time that I was writing for Oprah. I was beyond delighted that I got to hear her say the words \u2018stars and stripes forever baby.\u2019 It just gives me chills.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo the script was written and the idea as that I understand came out from a person in our production office, a woman named Tori Larsen, and she had this amazing idea and she brought it to the executive producers and they told her to run with it \u2026 and Oprah said yes which was amazing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She added that working with Winfrey \u201c<em>was a trip<\/em>\u201d and<em> \u201cas good as it gets\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: SBS<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,201,419],"tags":[223],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-whats-on","tag-staying-in"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did you notice the surprise celebrity cameo in The Handmaid\u2019s Tale? 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