The penultimate episode of Season 2 delivered the long-awaited reunion between Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and his wife, Teri (Okuma). It's the moment fans have been waiting for since Xavier left the bunker at the end of Season 1 to find her.
In last week's episode, Xavier looked up and saw his wife after Gary set off the bomb, and this week, the couple finally came together. However, when Okuma read the script for Episode 7, she thought the reunion was going to be short-lived as her character went to get Bean back from Gary, while Xavier watched from a roof, armed with a gun.
"I thought, 'This is it. This is where she goes.' Because in my mind, I'm like, 'That's actually great storytelling. They finally get together, only for him to lose her again,'" Okuma told Parade in an exclusive interview.
Enuka Okuma plays Teri in Hulu's ParadiseDisney/Anne Marie Fox)
Thankfully for fans, that wasn't the case.
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All of her worries went away as soon as "action" was called.
Enuka Okuma described her Paradise co-star Sterling K. Brown as being "so real"Disney/Ser Baffo
Prior to shooting the tent scene, Okuma remembered being deep in her own head when Brown asked what she was thinking. "And I was like, 'Well, I'm thinking what it would be like to have lost my husband and my family and to finally see my husband again.' And he kind of went, 'Okay, as you were,'" Okuma laughed.
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"I arrived in the building, and I knew that he [Brown] and the casting director were on the other side of that door, and I was nervously trying to calm myself down. And he comes out before my audition time, and we meet. And he looks me in the eye, and I said, 'I'm nervous,' and he said, 'Don't worry, I got you,'" Okuma revealed. "From that moment, I just knew I can do my best, and that was his intention. And he took all of my fears, all of my nerves away, and I had a great audition because of him, I truly believe. And that kind of care and that kind of presence is just always there with Sterling."
Enuka Okuma had no idea where Paradise was going when she auditioned for the role of TeriEnuka Okuma
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Paradise debuted in January 2025, and, per Disney, has been streamed globally for nearly 12 billion minutes. The Hulu series was renewed for a third season two weeks before the Season 2 finale, which airs March 30. The day Paradise's Season 3 renewal was announced, Fogelman teased Okuma about what's to come. "He's just like, 'You have no clue where it's going,'" she told Parade. "And I believe it. I believe it."
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