Brian Tyree Henry explains Ray’s end

Spoiler alarm: This story contains spoilers for the final of the limited series of Apple TV+”Dope Thief” with the title “Innocent People”.

On Friday final by Peter Craigs Apple TV+ Drug Conspiracy Drama Limited Series “Dope Thief”, Ray (Brian Tyree Henry) gets close To a happy ending. He finds the man who has hunting him and his most deceased best friend Manny (Wagner Moura) all season after they had involved in a real drug cartel during their fake Dea agent scheme.

But at that point, Manny died of heroin overdose, and Ray’s life is irreparable by the decisions he made, and those who were made for him a long time ago. But the fight is over and thanks to his unlikely team, it can rest with DEA ​​agent Mina (Marin Ireland). It turned out that the man who was a high lieutenant in the Dea himself and hid behind his badge to lead his company behind his badge.

To read diversity‘Svervily with the star and executing producer Henry Dissekting Rays decisions in the final “Dope Thief”, in which he also discussed his current favorite television show Meghan Markle “with Love, Meghan”.

In the course of the season it has become more difficult to say whether Ray hallucated after him or whether everything is real and the people around him don’t believe. Was that through design?

There is a certain form of mania that happened with Ray. You saw how he made many decisions that influenced him and his psyche at the same time. Regardless of the fact that he is imprisoned, I don’t think he saw so many corpses. To be fair, Ray had its appropriate share of loss, right? You have a review of seeing him as a baby, seeing his mother Od-Ing and not really knowing how to process it as a young spirit that is new to the world. But then he sees how his girlfriend sits next to him in a car accident, that he takes up the whole guilt and then goes to Oxville, and it simply becomes a damn shit show, and it seems to be body according to the body. And I think that’s exactly what is happening for Ray is that Mania takes over, in addition to the fact that you also deal with a addict who is also trying to stick to a form of escapism.

So he loses sleep, he does not sleep so much, the days mingle because he tries to take care of this person all the time and to move this here, and then he is in Amish Country, then he is in a warehouse, and then he takes care of Shermie. And we want you to feel confused on which day it is. How long has it been since robbery? How long has it been slept since Ray? We deliberately did it in such a way that they were, so to speak, in a place of their own mania.

How was it for her to film the last episode of this show about two best friends who bring out this chaos together after the death of Ray’s best friend Manny, Manny? How did you become Ray alone?

Losing Manny was the most difficult just because I love Wagner so much and even think about doing the rest of the show – admitted, there is only one episode – to know that he and his character simply won’t be there was really hard. It is so funny because I have set myself the goal of being for his actual scene in which he is ODS, and literally I would sit around my knees outside of the prison cell, just as I know that it comes. To feel less painful, I threw a party to him, because that was also his last scene. So I have all this Brazilian food and all these cakes and I have like balloons – and he is still in all his scars, as if mutilated. You can see the wounds on his arm. But this guy was the happiest person you have ever seen in your life. We still wanted to make it happy because we only knew what the loss would mean and how Ray changed forever.

I only knew that there was no back for Ray afterwards – and for me – emotionally and physically, because that’s my guy, that’s my best friend. And I remember, as I said: “Peter, we have to? It was hard and people are mad at me. People are mad at me, but I understand because I was crazy myself: I didn’t want to lose Manny myself. But there is only one way to wrap this story. They are really on the way and unfortunately there are victims on the way.

In the final we learn that the man who tortured Ray and Manny from the start is actually one of the highest leader in the DEA, which was in various episode throughout the episode in various episode. How was your reaction to the turn?

It was amazing because Peter directed the final and I looked at the monitor, and I thought: “And you wiped it just enough. You are a sociopath, sir.” But it’s crazy, something like that if you have a show that is built on a puzzle, we try to solve who is this type who has this strength. We put together the parts of the puzzle to find out who is responsible and who pulls the strings – and they realize that they have been sitting there all the time. I think that only contributes to an additional element of the tension and storytelling by Peter Craig, how he thinks about these things and how the threats threaten forever and are never really so far away and what the missions are. Who thought that they were robbed of a trap house? But that’s just Ray’s story: it ends up in places that are incredibly cumbersome. And he said that things were in one direction, and then they stand out as completely different, and they have so many consequences that go hand in hand with them.

The last line in the show is the exchange of “You You You Clean” from Mina to Ray, while she wipes something out of his face in a parking lot, and his answer is: “Hallelujah”. What was the greater importance to end in this level?

That day we had just blown up a motorhome. And Marin makes a need like no one I saw; This vulnerability behind her eyes is just so captivating, but also threatening at the same time. And we only attract innocently to get a breakfast stage sandwich how to do a normal day. And it is provided with a bookmark that I can’t even get food in my mouth. There is ketchup on my beard, and here she has to wipe it down. Or don’t have to, but make the decision, help me to help me and get this thing – and “you are clean”. I think Ray didn’t just want to be clean over the crimes and be under the roof of a criminal and death and loss, but also literally clean because he is now sober and it seems like a rebirth. And if there is something that celebrates the rebirth more, it is “Hallelujah”. Throughout the show you can hear Ray say “Halleluja” in such an ironic way: “Oh, thank God!” But I really believe that he is grateful that he is still there. And I find it astonishing that the very last word is heard in the series. It is really grateful that Ray survived and that he did it and that there is something on the other. But what does that mean at the same time?

It has been found that she and her “panic careful”, co-star Elizabeth Olsen, were very invested in seeing Meghan Markles “with Love, Meghan” Netflix series while turning together in London. I was told that the Duchess of Sussex sent you a care package as a thank you when she heard?

She did it! She sent me and Elizabeth Olsen Wonderful, wonderful – as always – boxes. The care that goes into what this woman does is not missed at all. I started my day with a wonderful hibiscus tea she sent. I think a hand calligraphy was on the box. And let me tell you something, jam these jams. The canned goods are where it is. And of course there are flower sprinkles that I don’t know of why I’m so careful! Because I want to use it properly. I don’t just want to put it on fries, do you know what I mean? It has to be the right thing, I don’t know why. But I will support this woman. She found her niche and it is delightful. With a word, it is delightful. It is really very, very nice for you to do that. And when I came back from London and saw that, I immediately called Elizabeth and said: “Did you get your box?!” We are both incredibly grateful and it is really cool.

With the “Dope Thief”, the next handful of their projects that are films are. Are you planning to return to TV after this? Maybe in a regular series?

Of course I will come back to TV. There is nothing that I love more than knowing that I can be in the living rooms of several people at the same time – I love to be intrusive. But it has to be the right one, because I was really turned on TV and I really think I want to love. I am in this place now that I did the work where I can actually have people who want to see me in love. I don’t say that it has to be a kitschy, cornball type – it could still be a trauma, I could be a serial killer who is looking for love. But I just think that I want the element of love to be in there somewhere. This is not an exodus from television. Television has a huge, huge place in my heart, but it just has to be the right one.

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