Plus, David Oyelowo reveals the surprising reason his friend Oprah Winfrey won’t be watching.
“I spoke to her this weekend.
I said, ‘Psychological thriller.’
David Oyelowo and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in ‘The Girl Before.'.Amanda Searle/ HBO Max
[She goes,] ‘Nope.
Don’t like those, don’t like those, don’t like those.
I need to know what happens next.’
Jessica Plummer and Ben Hardy star in ‘The Girl Before.'.Amanda Searle/ HBO Max
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And she won’t at least check it out for her Oyelowo?
So I am waiting for my phone call.”
“This is definitely a psychological thriller, and I love psychology.
I love the twists and turns.
I love to keep guessing.
There’s a whodunit element to it,” starGugu Mbatha-Rawsays.
Those layers involve the traumas and emotions and lives of four different people, set in two timelines.
He feels that’s how hehasto be, to be able to have a woman like Emma."
But it begs the question: Why do Emma and Jane decide to live there willingly?
The architect himself has an idea about that.
“We can have a certain judgmental outlook on those things, but it’s tied to their experience.
It’s tied to their needs in that given moment.
“And so that to me is what the show explores.
Yes, optically you go ‘hell no,’ but these two women, they’re very intelligent.
They’re upwardly mobile.
All four episodes hit HBO Max on Thursday.
