'The Handmaid's Tale' star Yvonne Strahovksi became a mother before Season 3 — and things got real
LOS ANGELES - Like the character she plays in "The Handmaid's Tale," Yvonne Strahovski's early motherly instincts were tested by a raging fire.
"We were holding our breath for a while because our son had just been born and here was this threat," she says while nestled in a cafe nook that overlooks the Malibu shore not far from her home.
She's thinking back to a windy November night last year, about four weeks after she had given birth, when the Woolsey fire was setting its destructive course inside the city limits.
"I didn't know there was a fire, but I was breastfeeding my son all night long, and I remember getting up and going outside to look over the hills and I just had a really bad feeling," she says with her Australian lilt unconcealed. "And, sure enough, the next morning, our neighbor knocked on our door and said we had to
