Warning: Spoilers for all episodes of “The Girl Before.” Even “The Girl Before” star David Oyelowo couldn’t predict the ending of the show.
The actor admitted to Variety that he purposely avoided reading the book the HBO Max series was based on so the ending could surprise him. “I didn’t want to know, because that’s part of the joy of it, trying to figure it out.
Having all these twists and turns, some of them unexpected,” he shared. “Some of them may be what you expect, but not in quite the way you expected it.” In fact, the twists and turns of the show constantly kept him guessing, with the ending blindsiding both him and his wife. READ MORE: ‘The First Lady’: Viola Davis Embodies Michelle Obama In First Trailer “I was genuinely surprised with where it went,” Oyelowo recalled as he read the final script. “And I’m pretty good at discerning these things early.
And even my wife, who is an absolute genius — she read it and didn’t get it. So that to me really exemplified how well-constructed it was as a psychological thriller.” The four-episode series followed Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Jane investigating the death of her building’s former tenant, Emma (Jessica Plummer).
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