Bad Sisters’ Anne-Marie Duff Explains Ian’s Bombshell News (Exclusive)

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bad sisters Season 2.

Anne-Marie Duff can’t help but mourn her bad luck Bad sisters Character – even in death.

Since Duff’s character Grace was killed at the end of the second episode of season two, her four sisters Eva (Sharon Horgan), Bibi (Sarah Greene), Ursula (Eva Birthistle) and Becka (Eve Hewson) have slowly been clarifying the circumstances of her sudden death and The most heartbreaking revelation came in Episode 7, when the true identity of Grace’s husband Ian (Owen McDonnell) was revealed.

“In a way, it was a sad turn of events for me because I was like, ‘Oh, Grace, not again,'” Duff, 54, tells PEOPLE of her reaction to the revelation that Ian was actually an impostor who played Grace has and her sisters. “She is unable to move forward. We need a good therapist – we need all of those things.”

“It’s so sad that he ends up being a disappointment,” she adds of Ian, who emptied Grace’s daughter Blánaid’s bank account after Eva gave him access and fled, leaving the Garvey sisters completely baffled.

Horgan tells PEOPLE that Ian being a con artist was really the “first idea” for this season, and she reveals, “He always wanted to be a villain.”

However, the fact that Ian was a cheater wasn’t the only jaw-dropping reveal so far, as he and Eva also became romantically involved in Episode 5.

“That came from the writer’s room and we loved it,” says Horgan, 54. “I mean, we knew we wanted Eva to kind of try to move on, just try to change her life. She is in menopause. She was always drinking too much and trying to recover.”

She continues: “But when something as traumatic happens to you as losing your sister, you’re so vulnerable and open that we suddenly thought, ‘Oh my God, what if she’s so open and vulnerable that she.’ allows?’ In?'”

Duff says it’s a “very interesting” dynamic that arises between her character’s sister and husband because “you want (Eva) to have joy,” but there are so many layers.

“In the first season there’s this strange parallel with the rape of Eva and the abuse of Grace, and in the second season their lives are so strangely intertwined, aren’t they? As for the men in Grace’s life?” says Duff. “It’s very clever and strange.”

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The finale of the second season of Bad sisters Premieres Wednesday, December 25th on Apple TV+.