Warning: This publish accommodates spoilers from Tuesday’s Naomi season finale.
Within the first half of Naomi‘s Season 1 finale on Tuesday, the titular character realized from the spirits of her deceased mother and father that they’d been betrayed.
Within the second half, Naomi realized that the betrayers had been none aside from her adopted mother and father, Jennifer and Greg. The revelation, which the superhero teen found upon touching a chunk of her area vessel, rocked Naomi to the core and triggered her to defiantly fly away in a whirlwind of emotion.
Mouzam Makkar, who costars as Jennifer, is aware of Naomi followers will need to instantly half methods with the couple a lot the way in which their favourite metahuman did. However Makkar argues there may be extra to the story than meets the attention, and if there’s a sophomore season, viewers will understand this.
“It truly is painful as a result of Jennifer is the mother that everybody desires,” Makkar tells TVLine. “She’s so supportive of Naomi, and she or he inspired her to develop into the great younger girl she is. However the betrayal is heartbreaking, and it’s additionally very thrilling to play a double-cross. [Executive producer] Ava DuVernay informed me the trajectory of my character for the primary season, and it floored me as a result of we didn’t know the main points till we acquired the finale script.”
Nonetheless, Makkar causes, the love Jennifer and Greg (seventh Heaven‘s Barry Watson) really feel for Naomi is actual, even when they did one thing as dastardly as murdering her organic mother and father.
“You’ll be able to’t pretend love if you’ve been elevating a toddler for 16 years,” the Legislation & Order: SVU vet explains. “It’s going to be thrilling. Hopefully, once we get a Season 2, the remainder of what occurred shall be absolutely explored. As an actor, it’s all the time enjoyable to play up the darkness. Each human has a darkish facet and a lightweight facet, and I feel our minds can journey to all kinds of locations once we’re indignant or unhappy. What can actually push a human being to do one thing so drastic?”
Till there are extra solutions, Makkar bravely says she’s not afraid of fan hatred on social media.
“I’m able to embrace all of it,” she surmises. “As a fan studying the script, I used to be heartbroken, too. Naomi has been via a lot, and her mother and father have been her guides. It’s a intestine punch. Even after the scene was over, Barry and I stood there and mentioned, ‘That is terrible that that is occurring to Naomi.’ So I get it… and I’m able to embrace the hate.”
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