Katcy Stephan SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for all episodes of “The Girl Before,” which arrived to HBO Max on February 10.David Oyelowo isn’t eager to inhabit a minimalist home like his character from “The Girl Before.” “It would probably be fun for a weekend as a novelty, but this is not the place for me,” he says. “If Edward Monkford were my landlord, I think he would murder me.”And murder was certainly on viewers’ minds during the four-episode HBO Max series, as Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Jane doggedly pursues answers about the death of her building’s former tenant, Emma (Jessica Plummer).Before joining the cast, Oyelowo didn’t read the book “The Girl Before” is based on, written by creator and executive producer J.P.
Delaney: “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.
Some of them may be what you expect, but not in quite the way you expected it.” The show’s final episode reveals that, despite Jane’s mounting suspicion of Edward, he was not actually responsible for Emma’s death.
Rather, Emma’s ex-boyfriend Simon (Ben Hardy) had pushed her down the stairs during a heated argument fueled by jealousy. During a tense showdown where it seems history may repeat itself, Jane manages to fend Simon off, and he tumbles to his death.“I was genuinely surprised with where it went,” Oyelowo says of his reaction to reading the script’s final pages. “And I’m pretty good at discerning these things early.
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