However, Moss' role as June Osbourne in "The Handmaid's Tale," a woman fighting for basic human rights in the nightmarish land of Gilead gives Peggy stiff competition.  "I think we grew up assuming that things like Roe v. Wade were just the way things were — a given," she tells Vogue. "June is a heroine like you are and I am and my mom is," she says. "She's a mother. She's a wife. She's a woman. She's human. I think that's really interesting — the question of, How would you act in her position? What would you do? What kind of hero would you become?"

The show also reflects Elisabeth's own beliefs, including the practice of Scientology, she tells The Daily Beast: "'The Handmaid's Tale' lines up so perfectly parallel with my own beliefs in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the things that this country was actually built on." She continues, "When you start to say 'you can't think that,' 'you can't believe that,' 'you can't say that,' then you get into trouble. Then you get into Gilead. So whatever happens, I'm never going to take away your right to talk about something or believe something, and you can't take away mine."