Samira Wiley is leaving her “Handmaid’s Tale” character behind – but not her lifelong friendship with co-star Elisabeth Moss.
The Emmy winner, 37, spoke to The Post about saying goodbye to Moira Strand at the show’s sixth and final season premiere in Hollywood, California, on Wednesday, April 2.
Wiley, who has played Moss’ character June Osborne’s best friend since 2017, shared how much Moira has meant to her — and how she’s felt letting go of her after all these years.
“I don’t think I’ve ever had the opportunity to tell a whole story like this, you know,” Wiley, who also famously starred in “Orange Is the New Black,” said at the TCL Chinese Theatre last week.
“It’s been very sweet to find myself so much in Moira,” Wiley noted, adding she’s learned “so many things from her.”
Wiley also revealed that “saying goodbye [to her character] has been hard.”
When asked about the last few episodes, which Moss directed, Wiley couldn’t wait to give her co-star and friend her flowers.
“It’s so many things at once being able to see my friend who, I’ve witnessed her growth and see her in that position of power,” she replied.
Wiley said that her relationship with Moss on the screen has helped them build an intense “level of trust.”
However, their friendship goes deeper, which the star admitted helps tell their characters’ stories.
“I think that the relationship between Moira and June on-screen is definitely influenced by our relationship in real life,” Wiley told The Post.
Wiley — who won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2018 for the role of Moira — also teased the most “taxing” scene for her this season.
“The hardest one [scene to film],” she began to spill. “There’s an argument that June and I have in one of the episodes. I think it’s in Episode 6, maybe, and it was that one.”
Wiley couldn’t go into detail for obvious reasons.
The first three episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6 dropped on Hulu Tuesday.
The beloved drama focuses on June fighting the patriarchal and dehumanizing Republic of Gilead in search of freeing her daughter, Hannah (played by Jordana Blake), and the other women and children trapped there.
Despite “The Handmaid’s Tale” coming to an end, Hulu announced “The Testaments,” a spinoff that will focus on Hannah (known as Agnes inside Gilead) and Ann Dowd’s character, Aunt Lydia.
The sequel already began filming on April 7, Warren Littlefield, the show’s executive producer, told The Post exclusively. Moss will also be executive producing the spinoff.
New episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” final season are available on Hulu every Tuesday.