“I keep pushing the boundaries and waiting for them to be like, ‘That’s too much.’
And that has yet to happen,” the breakout star says.
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Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Feb. 28 episode ofBeyond the Gates.
Karla Mosley and Timon Kyle Durrett on ‘Beyond the Gates’.Credit:Quantrell Colbert/CBS
Karla Mosleyknows what you’re thinking.
She’s thinking it too.
“I keep pushing the boundaries and waiting for them to be like, ‘That’s too much.’
Marquita Goings and Ellie Wang on ‘Beyond the Gates’.Quantrell Colbert/CBS
Mosley’s Dani Dupree, spurned by her ex-lover, shows up to his wedding with a gold-plated handgun.
In the episode’s final moment, she fixes it straight at the bride and groom and fires.
But also, it’s scary.
Karla Mosley on ‘Beyond the Gates’.Quantrell Colbert/CBS
It’s scary to have someone who’s that big, and to make these bold choices.
You’re like, ‘Are people going to roll with it?
Or is this completely insane?”
Timon Kyle Durett and Karla Mosley on ‘Beyond the Gates’.Quantrell Colbert/CBS
Beyond the Gatespremiered this Mondayafter months of hype, following its historic announcement last spring.
I just felt like a total pressure cooker the whole time."
Throughout the week Dani suffered indignity after indignity.
Daphnée Duplaix, Tamara Tunie, and Lauren Buglioli on ‘Beyond the Gates’.Quantrell Colbert/CBS
(“The desperation, it pains me to see it.
What happened to all that pride?")
“For some people that might be a release.
It might be like, ‘Okay, my life is going to go on.
But for her, it just sort of further empowers her to remember, ‘Wait, I am amazing.
I’m that b—-.
And I’m going to come and defend what’s mine,'” she says.
Martin’s mysterious past threatens to catch up to them all.
That devotion you gave to Bill?
He threw it back in your face and walked away with his little chippie.”
“It’s historical for her.
“It’s like, ‘We just have to do this.’
‘I don’t want to go to this event.’
‘Well, this is what we have to do.
We’re all going to go together.
We’re all going to wave and parade around.’
Mosley says she reacted to the wedding scene on the page the same way viewers are likely to react.
“I was like, ‘What?
What now?!’
And then, ‘How do you do that?
How do you sustain that?’
She does not relent.
I mean, once you pull a gun out, you’re all in.”
I think that she doesn’t ever intend to fire the gun.
She wants an apology.
It’s all emotional.”
But she does tease that more is in the works in the Dani-Andre department.
“I would just say that it’s not a one-night stand to her.
They have trouble staying away from each other.”
That’s a hopeful indicator that Dani makes it out of this mess in one piece.
