The Netflix miniseries’ shocking ending left fans traumatized. Richard Armitage, who plays the controversial adulterous husband, reacts.
Obsession star Richard Armitage confided in Hello Magazine his reaction to the shocking events that occur at the end of the Netflix series. Richard Armitage, known for his previous roles in The Hobbit and Strike Back, discusses his character, Dr. William Farrow, and the series as a whole.
Reminder: after an affair that turns into an obsession, William (Richard Armitage) and his future daughter-in-law Anna (Charlie Murphy) find themselves again in the apartment of the latter. But Jay (Rish Shah), William’s son, rushes to his fiancee and surprises his father and Anna in a moment of passion.
Shocked by what he sees, Jay ends up walking backward and falls over the stair railing of the top-floor apartment. William rushes over to find his son bleeding on the ground. At that point, Anna simply walks past them, William in tears and Jay breathing his last. After attending the funeral and after his wife, Ingrid (Indira Varma), files for divorce, it’s clear that William still hasn’t forgotten Anna.
About those last moments and why William wants to continue his relationship with her, Richard Armitage says: “William tells him ‘I would do it again’, knowing the outcome. It’s such a random and unpredictable fatal event that if you were given the chance to backtrack most people would definitely say ‘I’d walk away from you’.“
He pursues: “But he doesn’t, he says, ‘I would do all that again’. Even knowing it would happen again. I don’t know if I’d known that level of passion, and obsession that would make me sacrifice my whole life for just one person. The actor also talks about the fan reaction: “I would ask them to put themselves in his shoes and imagine what it must be like to feel something so overwhelming. In a way, it gives him a kind of rebirth, he feels reborn.“
“There’s a logical way to look at it, but I can’t find it. I had to find his logic, but it doesn’t make sense. I’m sure there are people who have been on the edge of that intensity and strayed from it, but I think they spend the rest of their lives wondering about that person. They can’t get it out of their head, forever“.
