Elisabeth Moss "closed the set" for the final scene of 'The Handmaid's Tale'

She told The Hollywood Reporter: "I did close the set. Not to keep it secret, but mostly because I needed the set to be a very quiet space that day.

"When you're shooting the final scene of a show, it tends to attract some attention. So it was actually me as a director protecting my actor, who is me.

"I needed to be able to do my job that day, which was a very difficult job of ending a series as an actor and pulling off that final moment. So I closed the set for that reason."

While the scene was the final one in the show, it wasn't the last to be actually shot.

While Elisabeth could be the only director to film themselves as an actor in the last scene of a long running show in that way, she pointed to the help she had from the cast and crew as a whole.

She said: "That would be a fun fact to find out. But this cast, this crew has made me a better director. They made me a better actor. They made me a better producer.

"That post team made me better at what I do because of them. Every time I've been talking with [season six showrunners] Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang I tell them how I miss collaborating with them."

She insisted the door could even be open to work together more in the future, although it's unlikely given the way they ended the series.

She added: "I don't see why we couldn't at some point come back and do something.

"What's so great about the landscape now is that we could do something in a few years if we wanted to.

"There's nothing saying we can't. There are no rules anymore. But I do think where we end it is right. They did a brilliant job of wrapping it up."