Warning: This post contains spoilers about the limited seriesBehind Her Eyes.
Netflix’s latest limited series,Behind Her Eyes, has audiences talking.
At the same time, she befriends David’s mysterious wife, Adele (Eve Hewson).
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But what begins as a story about secrets turns into something else completely by the series' end.
When she can’t get in, she projects her way into the home.
The twists don’t end there!
We then discover that Adele hasn’t been Adele in years.
Translation: David thought he married Adele, and then when Adele died, he thought he married Louise.
But all along, he’s been married to Rob, a guy he met once many years ago.
EW talked toBehind Her Eyesdirector Erik Richter Strand about crafting the twisty new series.
We get into all that and more below.
What went into the decision to hold off on the astral-projection reveal?
But yeah, astral projection is not something that you’re going to be guessing.
I assume the actors had to know the entire plot to play their parts correctly?
Once we started filming, they knew everything.
So she actually gave a hilarious audition tape where she didn’t know anything about the character.
And then finally when the other shoe drops, you understand that there’s meaning behind the madness.
You have to play the character straight.
So they have to do several different layers of acting.
I want to talk about the final scene and that final shot.
The book ends in a very similar way.
The show is quite a faithful representation of the book, and in the book it goes even further.
And that’s the ending.
That’s a really bleak, hard, gut-punch of an ending that can really get you angry.
I think it did for a lot of people.
Even though it’s clever, it’s also really horrifying.
And at one point maybe even David does.
There’s a shot of David looking at her.
I love that scene for that reason.
Speaking of the lifelong war, did you all ever discuss potentially continuing the story?
Sarah Pinborough has gotten that question many times.
That would have to be up to her.
I don’t think there would be a series created without her involvement.
My final burning question is this: Why did Louise go to that house to save Adele?
This is something that’s haunting her to this day in her dreams.
It was combining that with the very overt manipulation of Adele.
Adele has so very carefully crafted her own suicide with the specific intention of getting Louise to come.
She knows about Louise’s mother’s death and that she feels guilty for it.
She even sets the house on fire knowing that she’s going to come in and save her.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
