GOSSIP & RUMORS: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ creator knew how the show would end years ago

Is the reckoning here?

“The Handmaid’s Tale” sixth and final season is here — and while fans anxiously wait to see how June Osborne’s story ends, one person knew her and Gilead’s fate nearly a decade ago.

The Post spoke to the Hulu drama’s creator, Bruce Miller, at the season premiere in Hollywood, California, last week, and he said that he pitched the ending years ago, and it never changed.

Consistency seems to be key, especially when it comes to the finale.

While “The Handmaid’s Tale” executive producer told The Post that they were still putting the finishing touches on the last two episodes of the final series on premiere night, Miller exclusively shared that he’s known how the show will end since since the beginning.

“We always film different options for any scene, and also, in the episode [finale], there were a certain number of scenes we could have picked as the end,” he said when asked if there were any alternative endings that were shot during the production process. “But no, not in any real way.”

“Honestly, the end of it is the same as I pitched to Lizzie [Elisabeth Moss] the first time I met her,” Miller exclusively told The Post. “So, [the] first time we talked about the show.”

“The Handmaid’s Tale” has aired on Hulu since 2017 and features a slew of big names, including Elisabeth Moss (June), Yvonne Strahovski (Serena), Bradley Whitford (Commander Joseph Lawrence), Samira Wiley (Moira), O-T Fagbenle (Luke), and more.

When it comes to the series finale, the creator shared that while some things are “almost always” cut for time, that wasn’t the case this time around.

“I can’t think of anything honestly that we cut this season,” he shared.

Miller elaborated, “The scenes I can remember that have kind of been from earlier seasons, but I don’t remember anything that we shot and didn’t use this year. This year has a lot of big spectacular things that were very hard to film, so I would remember if we dropped any of them when we didn’t.”

As for the finale, the show’s executive producer, Warren Littlefield, warned fans, “Bring your Kleenex,” adding, “I think it’s really satisfying.”

Moss said her first reaction to reading the final scripts was “holy s–t.”

She also directed the last two episodes (Episodes 9 and 10), a fitting honor for the series’ Emmy-winning lead actress.

Miller shared that having Moss in the director’s chair was “the most natural thing you could possibly imagine.”

“She’s a very professional woman. She’s very fun. She knows how to come to work every day. She is a great manager,” he gushed on the red carpet. “She approaches her job as an actor. That’s how she approaches her job as a director.”

Miller continued, “She’s also incredibly intelligent and just an intuitive artist. It’s a pleasure to watch. It’s like watching someone pitch a no-hitter.”

Her co-stars echoed his sentiment.

Wiley — who plays June’s best friend, Moira — told The Post she shares a “level of trust” with Moss from working so closely with her for all these years.

“It’s so many things at once being able to see my friend, who I’ve witnessed her growth and see her in that position of power,” she shared on Wednesday.

The drama centers around June in a dehumanizing and oppressed society called Gilead, in which she and other women are forced to live under a patriarchal dictatorship and their children are ripped away from them.

Since its debut eight years ago, “The Handmaid’s Tale” was nominated for a whopping 76 Academy Awards and walked away with 15 wins.

While the beloved series is wrapping up, Hulu announced “The Testaments,” a spinoff to the series based on author Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel. Moss and Littlefield will executive produce it.

The sequel will focus on Ann Dowd’s character, Aunt Lydia, and June’s TV daughter, Jordana Blake’s Hannah.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6 airs on Hulu on Tuesday, April 8, with a three-episode drop.