But those who don't watch "The Handmaid's Tale" probably felt confused that day on the Mall. Among the local actresses who played the handmaids were two women who had previously worked together on the Amazon series "Jack Ryan." Asked how they wound up in Gilead, one of them responded that she had submitted her information to a casting call she found on Facebook, and "they got back to me and asked if we wanted to be - what are we? Not bridesmaids. We're ... "