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Hulu has announced that Samira Wiley of Orange is the New Black will join the cast of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, confirms the Hollywood Reporter.

The soon-to-be star-studded cast already includes Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss in the lead role of Offred, a handmaid in the dystopian society of Gilead.

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The novel was first published in 1985 and has served as speculative fiction of the future workings of North American society.

Wiley, who is gay, will play Moira, a lesbian character and one of Offred’s close friends from college, who is also taken in to be a handmaid. Moira’s character works against the republic’s strict gender and class divisions.

This will be Wiley’s first regular role after her long stint as Poussey Washington on Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black, which she recently departed after its current season, so this is good news for fans who were left in an uproar.

Adapted for film in 1990, the novel has taken many different forms, including opera, radio, stage, even ballet, but never for television.

Atwood will be working with Hulu as a consulting producer for the 10-episode series that is scheduled to air in 2017. The Canadian author has been having a busy year, having also recently partnered with Sarah Polley for a Netflix adaptation of Alias Grace, along with her first graphic novel set to be published later this year.