Ozark’s Jessica Frances Dukes Threw Final Script Across Room and Cried: ‘It’s an Emotional Roller-Coaster’
usmagazine.comWaterworks! Ozark’s Jessica Frances Dukes had quite the emotional reaction to reading the show’s final script — and she wants people to prepare themselves.“I read the final scripts and I just threw the scripts across the room,” Dukes, 31, revealed exclusively to Us Weekly about her feelings toward the finale. “I tossed tables!
I cried! It’s gonna be an emotional roller-coaster. So be ready.”The actress, who plays Special Agent Maya Miller on the Netflix hit drama, expressed that she had overwhelming thoughts about how she wanted her character’s story to end.“It’s just hard when you live with the character for so long.
You have so many things that you want,” the New York native explained to Us. “You are like, ‘I have these five different endings that I want to happen.’ And those writers are just so brilliant.
They gave me something more than I could have ever imagined with her. And I just I’m just honored.”However, the NCIS alum is aware her character’s choices don’t always go over well with the audience — including that decision to arrest cartel leader Navarro in part one of the Netflix thriller’s last season.“I knew everybody was gonna be pissed when I got the script,” Dukes admitted to Us. “I was reading and I was so in.
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