Orji also stars in the Hulu comedy Vacation Friends, out Friday.
best friend hints that viewers may be caught off-guard by certain events in this fifth and final season.
“Hopefully everyone will be happy with how we tie the [series] up.”
Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae in ‘Insecure.'.Credit: Everett Collection
“Our fans have a myriad of emotions.
We do not disappoint in keeping [that going].
Kind of like how we felt with the pandemic.
Are we at peace?
It’s like: ‘Pick your flavor of emotions:Insecureseason 5.'”
What words come to mind when Orji sums up this final batch of episodes?
“Unearthing, shedding, fulfilling, and growing.
Unearthing lot of different things emotions, feelings.
Unearthing desires, wants.
There’s a lot of things going on.”
How optimistic should viewers be that these two are on the road to repair?
“That was the conversation that was very, very necessary for them to have,” says Orji.
Are they ready to do that?
We start to answer that."
When Andrew asked her, “What do you want?”
the tears that formed in Molly’s eyes seemed ominous.
But is there unfinished business between these two?
“I can’t give thescoopscoop,” she quips.
“But I will say: Keep watching.
It may be interesting to see what you learn about that relationship.”
“I’m like, ‘When does Molly get to be happy?
Can she c’mon be happy?
She’s been through a lot.
Can you all kindly do that for me?'”
“And they just laugh when I say it.
As I’m reading the scripts, I’m just like, ‘Oh, lord!
Is she going to be happy, guys?
That’s my desire.
I’ve desired that for her for many, many seasons.’
Because I have a very specific definition of happiness for Molly?’
And they’re like, ‘Yvonne, let us do what we do best.’
And I’m like, ‘All right.
Cool, cool, cool.'”
“I’m like, ‘When is the movie?
Is there a movie?'”
“Issa’s like, ‘Who said anything about a movie?
Are you writing something we don’t know about?’
I’m like, ‘I’m just saying.’
So I don’t want it to end.
I never wanted to end.
But I think we’re doing the right thing by going out on the high note.
We have specific stories we wanted to tell and we’re telling them.
It’s like, ‘Don’t overstay a welcome!'”
And Orji has busying herself with plenty of other projects.
“People hopefully can relate to it a little bit more because we’ve gone through our own bamboozlement.
In 2020 and 2021, we all got bamboozled.
We had plans, weddings.
We thought we were going to have jobs.
That’s it.’
It’s a comedy of errors.
Lil Rel’s character is a little bit more like, ‘I’m tired of them.
Vacation Friendsstarts streaming on Friday, while the final season ofInsecurelaunches in October.
