Chase Infiniti on What Terrifies Her Most About ‘The Testaments’
Chase Infiniti discusses playing Agnes MacKenzie in Hulu’s The Testaments, describing the character’s growing awareness that Gilead’s rigid social order is collapsing around her. She says the most difficult and frightening scenes were the “tipping-point” episodes, where Agnes’s innocence is stripped away and she confronts the violence and control embedded in her world.
Infiniti has received an Emmy nomination for the role, only her second television part, following recognition for One Battle After Another. She highlights how Gilead’s colour-coded costumes convey girls’ status: Agnes begins in purple as a pre-menstrual “plum”, then wears green after menstruation marks her as eligible for marriage; episode two also depicts her sexual abuse by a dentist and its devastating consequences.
- Infiniti found Agnes’s loss of innocence most frightening.
- Costumes visually enforce Gilead’s hierarchy.
- Her performance has earned an Emmy nomination.