When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned.

Madeline Brewer

Amazing Writing Us

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

Madeline Brewer

You T Side

Step outside your comfort zone because that's the only way you're going to grow.

Madeline Brewer

Zone Your You

None of the atrocities in 'The Handmaid's Tale' are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.

Madeline Brewer

Wrote World Where

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

Madeline Brewer

Work Art Written

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

Madeline Brewer

Peace Ukulele T

I don't need a man to tell me he loves me; I don't need this industry to tell me it loves. I love myself.

Madeline Brewer

Love I Love Myself Us

When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned.

Madeline Brewer

Amazing Writing Us

I like the exactness of baking. I'm not someone who's like, 'I'll just throw a bunch of stuff together. This is gonna taste delicious.' I am a rule follower: I really like the measuring. It's completely tedious, but I love that. It's calming. And I am a total sweetaholic.

Madeline Brewer

Love Who Us

I'm definitely a homebody, so when I have an emotional day on set, I have to go home, take a bath, and go to bed.

Madeline Brewer

Home Take T

I get my love of acting from my dad.

Madeline Brewer

Love Tin T

When it comes to fashion, I never wear makeup and always stick to black clothing.

Madeline Brewer

Wear Ways Way

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

Madeline Brewer

Freedom Which UN

Every time I've talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, 'The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.'

Madeline Brewer

Time Ways Way

Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

Madeline Brewer

Your You Voice

I grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing up.

Madeline Brewer

Music Wing Win

I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical theater school. But acting is a huge passion of mine, so it doesn't matter which medium as long as I have the opportunity to grow and to learn from a piece of work and work with good people, and on a very good-quality project.

Madeline Brewer

Work Music Good

I use Garnier's micellar water to take off my makeup. I love the Mario Badescu Aloe and Rosewater spray. And I'm one of those people who's a sucker for a hot towel.

Madeline Brewer

Love Who Water

I hated it at first, because I hate the cold even though I'm from a cold area, but I love Toronto. I think it's gorgeous. I think it's an amazing city. Everybody runs here or rides a bike. I've had to become more active so I don't feel left out.

Madeline Brewer

Love Amazing Very

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.

Madeline Brewer

Which Very Up

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.

Madeline Brewer

Will Way Tale

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.

Madeline Brewer

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

Madeline Brewer

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

Madeline Brewer

I'm a horror fan in general.

Madeline Brewer

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

Madeline Brewer

I'd never wear something that's too generic.

Madeline Brewer

Filming with Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, it just blew my mind.

Madeline Brewer

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.

Madeline Brewer

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

Madeline Brewer

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

Madeline Brewer

I loved working on 'Grimm.' The entire cast and crew were wonderful and welcoming.

Madeline Brewer

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

Madeline Brewer

I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.

Madeline Brewer

When you're on set, you're constantly surrounded by people - talking to people, being touched by people. So I like to just spend time with myself.

Madeline Brewer

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Madeline Brewer

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

Madeline Brewer

For some people, makeup is their war paint; that's putting their best foot forward. Others feel better with no makeup. It's so personal - who are we to judge?

Madeline Brewer

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

Madeline Brewer

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

Madeline Brewer

The women of Gilead have so little power.

Madeline Brewer

I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.

Madeline Brewer

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

Madeline Brewer

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

Madeline Brewer

We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from pregnancy or whatever, but we don't want to protect you once you're pregnant.

Madeline Brewer

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

Madeline Brewer

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

Madeline Brewer

My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.

Madeline Brewer

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

Madeline Brewer

My mom loves me a lot, and I think if I was taken from her, she would have lost her mind.

Madeline Brewer

You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.

Madeline Brewer