Uzo Aduba Admits She Wasn’t Anticipating ‘Curveball’ Ending in ‘The Residence’ (Unique)

The ultimate episode of The Residence blew everybody away — together with Uzo Aduba!

Whereas completely chatting with PEOPLE about Netflix’s newest whodunit sequence, the actress, 44, confessed she was shocked when she found who had killed White Home Chief Usher, A.B. Winter (Giancarlo Esposito) within the final episode.

In line with the present’s official logline, the sequence tells the story of “132 rooms. 157 suspects. One lifeless physique. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner.” Aduba, who stars as well-known detective Cordelia Cupp, makes an attempt to unravel an sudden homicide “set within the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White Home, among the many eclectic workers of the world’s most well-known mansion.”

“We did not know,” Aduba stated of the killer. “It wasn’t till we obtained the script ourselves and I learn it. And I bear in mind I really didn’t know going into studying episode eight. I genuinely had no concept. I had a guess, however I used to be unsuitable.”

When she lastly learn which character had dedicated the homicide, the Orange is the New Black alum revealed, “I used to be blown away. Like, whoa! That was a curveball I used to be not anticipating in any respect.”

“However then, once you learn Esther Kang Paul [William Davies]’s phrases and the how and the why,” she defined. “It is a actually refined tie-up for the entire [series].”

She famous how the showrunner was capable of set the present in “an iconic constructing” that everybody is conversant in however shift the main focus away from the politics.

“It is not about events, it isn’t about something to do with that space of the home. It has extra to do with the upstairs, downstairs of politics — of the inside workings of the workers of the home who run the home,” she continued. “He does this actually seamless factor of tying again into the wrongdoer, the entire of the American preferrred that I believe is basically fairly beautiful.”

Along with Aduba and Esposito, The Residence, primarily based on Kate Andersen Brower’s e-book of the identical identify, additionally stars Randall Park, Susan Kelechi Watson, Paul Fitzgerald, Dan Perrault, Spencer Garrett, Edwina Findley, Molly Griggs, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Bronson Pinchot, Julieth Restrepo, Mel Rodriguez, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Mary Wiseman.

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The Residence is offered to stream on Netflix.