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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/how-elisabeth-moss-became-the-dark-lady-of-the-small-screen

When I brought up Scientology, Moss was Zooming from her trailer in Toronto, sitting on the floor. In my time with her, she had been friendly and accessible. "I don't want to come off as being cagey," she said. "If you and I met, just hanging out as friends, I'm, like, an open book about it." But, she added, "I don't want people to be distracted by something when they're watching me. I want them to be seeing the character. I feel like, when actors reveal too much of their lives, I'm sometimes watching something and I'm going, Oh, I know that she just broke up with that person, or, I know that she loves to do hot yoga, or whatever it is."

I told her that people are already distracted by it—that they don't always know how to hold the public and the private Lizzies in their mind. Smiling, she replied, "People can obviously hold in their mind whatever they want to, and I can't control that. If it's not that, it's going to be something else." She smeared on lip balm and continued, "It's not really a closed-off religion. It's a place that is very open to, like, welcoming in somebody who wants to learn more about it. I think that's the thing that is probably the most misunderstood."

One of the tenets of Scientology is that the mind is divided into two parts: the analytical, which we use to make conscious choices, and the reactive, which holds on to trauma and pain, and must be vanquished in order to "go Clear." It seems like an odd fit for Moss, who is drawn to performing trauma. "Well," Moss said, "I think it's more about those traumatic incidents, or those moments of pain, whether it's emotional or physical, holding you back from being who you are now." I asked how Scientology had helped her as she grew up. She scratched her neck, thinking, and said, "Communication is something that I obviously use so much, not only in my job but in my interpersonal relationships as well. That is probably one of the No. 1 basic things that I grew up learning and grew up using and use every day: the power of just being able to listen to somebody, of making somebody feel heard, of not belittling them for what they think or believe, even if you think it's wrong. "

Many of the reported abuses perpetrated by Scientology—mind control, making family members cut ties with apostates (a policy known as Disconnection), assigning troublesome members to hard labor—echo the authoritarian tactics of Gilead. (The Church calls these allegations "false and mischaracterized.") I asked how a viewer of "The Handmaid's Tale" might reconcile these two things.

"I would just encourage people to find out for themselves," Moss said, a line she would repeat several times. "I've certainly been guilty of reading an article or watching something and taking that as gospel." She said that she thought it was important to reflect her own values in the work she does. "And obviously something like religious freedom and resistance against a theocracy is very important to me."

People need to find out for themselves whether there is abuse in that cult? 

I have watched Mad Men and admired her acting, but didn't know about her links to Scientology back then. It really makes me look at her in a different way. I hope she will do an interview with Leah.

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Who?

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mvbvnbvnbvbnvnb not ppl need to find out for themseves

they way their mess has been WELL document from former member who all said the same mess

scientology is disgusting and anyone who participates in it

[Annie]

Who?

Handmaid's Tale


Mad Men

[Annie]

Leah Remini>>>>>>>>>>>>

I really hope she will do another doc series, but I can imagine it's a very stressful and dangerous process 

[Annie]

mvbvnbvnbvbnvnb not ppl need to find out for themseves

they way their mess has been WELL document from former member who all said the same mess

scientology is disgusting and anyone who participates in it

Someone on Reddit commented 'they are so welcoming they won't let you go'

[klappa.]

mvbvnbvnbvbnvnb not ppl need to find out for themseves

they way their mess has been WELL document from former member who all said the same mess

scientology is disgusting and anyone who participates in it

Someone on Reddit commented 'they are so welcoming they won't let you go'

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[Annie]

Either this woman is lying and spreading Scientology propaganda or people at the Celebrity center do get a different treatment. 

[RAY7]

So glad Bran got away from this mess

[Annie]

So glad Bran got away from this mess

Yes Brandy and also Jennifer Lopez

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I feel like celebs convert as a career move