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As one of five honourees of this year’s Variety Power of Women luncheon, Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood did a truly wide-ranging interview with the magazine about her career and thoughts on the world and politics today. She managed to tie all these things together while discussing how she feels pop culture has a tendency to influence real life.

Atwood began, “Just to give you a very creepy feeling, there was an opera ofThe Handmaid’s Tale that premiered in Denmark in 2000. It started with a film reel going across the top of the stage and showing various things blowing up. And one of the things that blew up was the Twin Towers. But it hadn’t blown up yet. They did the opera again, and they had to take it out, because it was no longer in the future. Does that give you a creepy feeling?”

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After Variety’s Ramin Setoodehconceded that yes, it did, she added, “They didn’t get that idea from my opera, don’t worry. They got the idea from Star Wars.”