The stars in “The Handmaid’s Tale” had to do more than just act this season.
Timothy Simons — known for his roles in “Veep,” “Nobody Wants This,” and “Don’t Worry Darling” — joined the cast for the series’ final installment, and he spilled to The Post that some of them had to take dance classes during Season 6.
At Hulu’s red carpet premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on Wednesday, April 2, Simons revealed he struggled during the dance scenes because of his two left feet — and it seems like he wasn’t the only one.
“We had to dance every week, and I’ve never been like… I’ve never been the most graceful person,” he exclusively told The Post.
When asked to confirm if he meant dance lessons, Simons responded, “Yeah, we did.”
He added that the cast would take the classes “like the day before” the scene, adding, “It was enough that I should have been better when we were at it.”
The star clarified that the dance lessons were “not full on, but “more like basics that we could expand on.”
Despite the lessons, Simons admitted, “I’m gonna tell you, your boy f–ked those up. Your boy didn’t get the expansion. Didn’t even get the basics.”
He also revealed that he might “be the most noticeable” actor who struggled with the dance scenes when fans watch this season.
The Post also asked Simons if he had taken anything from “The Handmaid’s Tale” set after the lead actress Elisabeth Moss (June Osborne) revealed that a mysterious crew member requested to take her undergarments.
While Simons shared that he didn’t nab anything from his days filming the Emmy-winning drama, he said that if he could go back in time, he’d take “those little lapel loops” that the commanders wear.
He said they are “small enough that they won’t notice, but it has a big meaning.”
“The Handmaid’s Tale” hit Hulu in 2017.
Over the past eight years, it’s won 15 Emmys and has been nominated for 75. Moss took home the Academy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as June in the first season of the show.
The drama series follows her character and other women who were stripped of their rights and children and forced to live under a patriarchal dictatorship.
While “The Handmaid’s Tale” is coming to an end, a spinoff is already in the works.
Hulu announced “The Testaments” ahead of last week’s red carpet premiere. The sequel will take place “four years after the killing of the harvest,” the executive producer, Warren Littlefield, told The Post.
It will follow Ann Dowd’s character, Aunt Lydia, and June’s daughter Hannah (played by Jordana Blake), who is known as Agnes in the territory of Gilead.
“It’s a different world, it is a different palette, it is a different population, so much is different, and yet… we’ll pull the veil back and reveal that, yes, we’re still in Gilead,” he shared.
Three episodes of the sixth and final season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is available to stream on Hulu now. New episodes of the last season will drop every Tuesday.
