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Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutVirgin Riverseason 6.
But Brie and Brady have already confessed to each other that they still have feelings for one another.
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So, who will Brie choose?
Marco Grazzini, Zibby Allen, Ben Hollingsworth.Credit:courtesy netflix (3)
Does she even know?
“It is definitely a battle of head versus heart,” Allen tellsEntertainment Weekly.
Brady has been untrustworthy in the past, but there’s such a genuine deep love there.
Marco Grazzini, Zibby Allen.Netflix
“Mike makes sense on paper and he is a genuinely good guy,” she continues.
“That’s also universally relatable.
We see it everywhere.
Benjamin Hollingsworth on ‘Virgin River’.Netflix
That’s a very, very real and honest debate inside of Brie.”
With Mike, there’s safety, security, and transparency.
With Brady, there’s passion, fire, and danger.
Zibby Allen and Marco Grazzini on ‘Virgin River’.courtesy netflix
That’s pulling her in either direction."
Something Mike explicitly advised him to do before swooping in to date Brie.
“That’s what Brie ended up breaking up with Brady over.
Elise Gatien and Benjamin Hollingsworth on ‘Virgin River’.courtesy netflix
Mike never brings that up.
No matter what, he just wants to be the man that Brie wants him to be.”
“She was his first love, and it’s really hard to move past that for him.
There’s this magnetism to each of them.
When you get them close enough, at some point you could’t hold them back.
They’re built for each other in a way that’s undeniable.”
Watching it back, you even wonder, for a moment, whether they might just take off.
But you’re free to’t help it and you’re pushing.
I do think that’s probably an element here."
The proposal catches Brie off guard, particularly because she’s planning to confess her dalliance with Brady.
“She only catches on in real time,” Allen says of Brie’s reaction to the proposal.
“She’s been harboring so much guilt.
Only hours earlier did Brady profess his love to her.
It’s thrown her into this state of utter confusion.
Instead, she gets a proposal.”
However, Allen reveals that they shot two potential scenes.
“There were two ending options.
Then, the second option was that Mike would say, ‘I know.'”
“Now, he’s a detective,” she continues.
I’m so glad that they went with it because it makes for far more interesting television.
In real life, people aren’t perfect.
Couples aren’t perfect.
It’s a complicated situation."
“I don’t want to disparage her,” reflects Allen.
“She can be very misunderstood by audiences who are so gunning for the romance of Brie and Brady.
It’s sometimes hard to stop and remember that she’s fresh off the heels of a big trauma.
She has her own healing to do.
The characters ofVirgin Rivercome to Virgin River to heal and let their nervous system settle and find themselves again.
She’s really in that process.
For those who would argue that Brady is bad for Brie, Hollingsworth has a rebuttal.
“Until he met Brie, he was in a very bad, bad place,” he says.
So, Hollingsworth is definitely #TeamBrady (naturally), but what about Allen?
“I really love how much abandon there is with Brie and Brady,” she reflects.
“It’s a beautiful and rare thing, and I really want that for her and him.
But as Zibby playing this character, I have to really look at it all.
Virgin Riverseason 6 is now streaming on Netflix.
