When she was discovered, the only woman, or almost the only one, among the men in the dark suit of Mad Men, they exclaimed, "Here is the daughter of the President of the White House! "; when she was seen as an obstinate detective in Top of the Lake, we said to ourselves: "But it's Peggy de Mad men! "; while it is found in the series-phenomenon The Scarlet Servant, one is forced to admit it: at 35 years, Elisabeth Moss is the most clear-sighted actress in the recent history of the TV series.

Embedded in a red cape and covered with a white cornette, it embodies the modern slave of an America gangrenée by the specter of the trump of the Trump administration: in the near future, the environmental deliquescence has dangerously reduced the fertility of women, and a totalitarian regime has been set up, trying to repopulate the country by sending "breeders", completely enslaved, to sterile couples of the elite.

Elisabeth Moss, a singular presence

Elisabeth Moss embodies one of them. A genuine child of the modern series, this gifted actress, with a singular presence, is of all plans, with her face with unheard-of expressiveness, single screen
that it remains for us to try to decipher the unrecognizable world that it paces, haggard. Her voice is omnipresent as she comments, in "off" and with much irony, her life watched on all sides. He told himself that these close-ups where the actress recited her voice inwardly, leaving a thousand nuances on her face, were filmed directly by the director of the photograph, which is never done on an American shoot, both he was fascinated to see this talent at work.

Elisabeth Moss, who has been playing in series for 28 years, having started at 6 in a mini-series with Sandra Bullock, has gradually entered our collective imagination: the Mad Men scene where she is seen leaving the patriarchal offices of the SCDP agency, with its business cardboard and an insolent beak to the beak, is now an iconic GIF relayed on International Women's Day.

The showrunner of The Scarlet Servant, Bruce Miller, says he loves "Lizzie" because of "his remarkable ability to look like a normal person onscreen." With this role that wants her head tucked in the shoulders, eyes circled, it is clear that Elisabeth Moss has not spent her time filming to check her image in the combo. It does not look like that, but in the realm of the simulacrum that is Hollywood, it is a gesture of a high radicality.

"The Scarlet Servant" by Bruce Miller, with Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel and Joseph Fiennes, starting June 27 on OCS.