‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Cast Answers Who June Loves More: Luke or Nick

Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6, Episode 6.

While June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle) rekindled their flame in the midst of fighting to get their daughter Hannah (Jordana Blake) back, it appears the former handmaid still has the hots for her other child’s father Nick Blaine ( Max Minghella) on “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

And after that steamy kiss between Nick and June in Episode 6, titled “Surprise,” it leaves fans wondering exactly who does June love more, Nick or Luke? Well, the cast shared their opinions on the fiery love triangle with TheWrap.

“I only think the fictional character of June could answer that question. But by the way, the answer might not be easy for that character,” Minghella told TheWrap. “I think that they offer incredibly different things to [June]. There’s a intellectualism in the relationship between Luke and June that Nick cannot offer; he doesn’t have that in him, and I imagine that’s something that’s really missing for her on some level. At the same time, he provides a security maybe that Luke doesn’t.”

Just when we thought June and Luke were locked back in after years of being torn apart, here comes Nick proposing they escape to Paris together, away from all the oppression, killings and torture still running amuck in Gilead. And for a minute — and if not for her daughter Hannah still be held captive — it looked as if June was ready to risk it all for the suave and reserved commander. She’s mostly kept it strictly business with Nick this season, but after reminiscing about their days together in love but in hiding while June was detained by the Waterfords, and after Nick told her she’s the “only good thing in his life,” which was followed by a warm embrace and heated kiss, we’re thinking June is still torn between the two men.

“I mean, it’s totally understandable on one level. You go, ‘Well, you’re split apart, and you spend a lot of time away, and you’ve been through trauma,’ and there is this person there that provides you some level of comfort and excitement and novelty and interest and love, and more than that, they have a child together that is all understandable,” Fagbenle explained to TheWrap.

But on the flip side, Fagbenle said Nick’s role as a commander and his apparent disassociation from Nicole, he and June’s daughter, makes him question how Nick’s morale and just how good a man the official would actually be to June if she were to choose him.

“I find it curious, and I imagine so does Luke, that this is a man who’s ultimately abandoned his child— he never talks about his child. He never says, ‘Hey, by the way, I’m a big ol’ commander. I’ve got a bunch of money. Here’s some money to help you’ — you never hear that,” Fagbenle explained. “What kind of man is that, you know? So what are the values of a man who manages to climb up the ranks of someone in Gilead? How do you get promoted there? How many innocent people do you have to kill or snitch on? How many missiles do you have to rain down on civilians? You know?”

He continued: “So sure, he’s a very good kisser, sure he’s very handsome. But there depends on one’s value system, what one thinks is really important in the character of your chosen loved ones.”