In an interview with ET’s Nischelle Turner, Yvonne Orji expressed her excitement for the forthcoming fifth and final season of Insecure, saying that the characters “go through so much.” Season four ended with Orji’s character, Molly in an awkward situation with her best friend Issa (Issa Rae). Fans of the HBO series are hoping that the two will reunite before the series ends.
“That is what I would hope, you know, but life is messy,” Orji admits while promoting her new book, Bamboozled by Jesus. “You just have to watch and see and see what relationships last and don’t. And sometimes with life, there’s some that don’t. … What I can say is life is messy, and situations are complicated.”
Molly’s journey has been difficult, as she has dealt with a number of work-related and relationship issues. Viewers saw her and Andrew’s (Alexander Hodge) love story come to an end.
Orji says of Molly’s mental state in the upcoming episodes, “I think she’s still figuring it out. It’s a journey for all of us. And all of us being in a pandemic, we are just trying to figure it out, and so is she.”
The fourth season of Insecure also ended on a major cliffhanger. As Issa and Lawrence (Jay Ellis) rekindled their romance, it was revealed that Condola (Christina Elmore) is pregnant with Lawrence’s child and intends to keep it.
“We go through so much. It’s possible that we may travel through time. We go through a lot. We go through some generations,” Orji details. “We go through 10 episodes, they all might not be an hour-long, but you see an evolution. You are able to see the evolution of the characters; you’re able to hopefully get some answers. Y’all be wanting the answers, boy, and I hope y’all like the answers.” She explains, “I think Issa, like she said, she wants it to feel like a chapter that ended,” she continues. “And you’re not looking at the book like, what the heck was that?”
When speaking on her journey, Orji said she couldn’t be happier about her career in entertainment and landing Insecure.
“I had no agent. I had no manager. I barely took two or three acting classes. I was just grinding,” she said before landing the role, “I did five auditions to get to that moment, and then it was like, ‘They for real told me? Like, for real, it was me? I did it? And oh my god!'”
Even after landing the coveted position, she was still insecure about her job and performance.
“I thought I was getting fired week one to [now] season four; I’m getting Emmy nominated?! It’s like the process continues no matter how good you think you are in the beginning, [life] always has more to uncover and evolve you,” she expresses. “I learned so much from Issa when Issa’s not even saying anything; you know what I mean.”
“She’s very specific in what she wants, and there’s nothing accidental about her,” she notes. “She’s very specific and just very intentional with how she envisions things. She’s also very gracious. Like, there’s so many of us that have been given a chance beyond just what it is that we are doing on the show.”
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