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 dying of Commander Nick Blaine. The Teen Spirit star not solely opened up concerning the last 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 dying

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

The actor spoke to Selection from a movie set in Wales about his character’s demise within the critically acclaimed Hulu collection. He shared, “It felt very poignant — and in step 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 change into such a pricey buddy exterior the present. That felt proper to me, too.”

Commander Nick Blaine’s dying 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 so as to keep his cowl. As such, each Wharton and Lawrence, together with the unsuspecting Nick, find yourself dropping 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 components of the present. And so to floor that relationship, then, into a few of the darker, extra nihilistic factors of view that we’ve to discover in ‘The Handmaid’s Story,’ I used to be shocked by it.”

Having showcased the dying 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 collection finale. It would air on Hulu subsequent Tuesday on Might 27, 2025.