Big and small choices don't always look different from each other as we're making them the right thing and the wrong thing to do aren't necessarily worlds apart. To be clear, she doesn't think the abortion was a mistake she just can't believe how quickly she forgot about it ever happening. "When you paint things to make it look like you're just the victim and I find out that isn't the case, it really makes me question who you are." It's a barbed threat she hurls at Kwame when she learns what he's done, but she redirects it at herself when she finds the ultrasound photo from an old abortion under her bed. By the end of the night, though, this line fades even for her. And obviously none of this is excusing behavior, but he's caught up so much in his fight to deal with what's happened to him and to come to terms with it that he makes decisions that I don't think he would have made in other situations." Walking around London in white wings and a black wig, after all, Kwame's only half an angel.īut Bella has an answer for that, too: "Just because you're vulnerable doesn’t mean you can make other people vulnerable," she tells Kwame, so sure of the bright line between what's right and wrong. So what does it mean that Kwame, an assault survivor and unfailingly supportive friend until now, finds himself on the wrong side of a sexual deception? "I don't necessarily think of Kwame as being unwaveringly good," Essiedu says when I ask him. "He comes out feeling less empowered than he did when he was going in." Big and small choices don't always look different from each other as we're making them the right thing and the wrong thing to do aren't necessarily worlds apart. "As a Black, gay man," Essiedu tells Bustle, Kwame is "very disempowered" before he even enters the precinct. And when Kwame attempts to report his own sexual assault, the police who listened with such delicacy and compassion to Arabella’s report ultimately make him regret ever coming to the station. Terry has devoted herself to helping Bella since she was attacked, but she keeps the secret that she told a mutual friend to leave Bella at the bar alone in the first place. Arabella is the victim of multiple rapes she also locked Kwame in a bedroom with a stranger at a house party. It’s not the first time I May Destroy You has compelled us to question what separates good people from bad ones. “He’s vulnerable,” she pleads with Bella, reminding her that Kwame, too, recently survived an assault. Paapa Essiedu plays his ordinarily subdued Kwame with a guilty, sheepish defensiveness: “She kind of forced me.” Ever the shoulder angel, Terry does her best to contain the conflict.
Still, he gamely trudges along to the pumpkin-festooned paint and sip where Arabella confronts him about having sex with a woman and only afterwards disclosing that he’s gay: “You kind of had penetrative sex with her under false pretenses.” The argument tumbles quickly out of control from there. As Terry tells him apologetically that the store only had one halo left in stock.
He wears a cobbled together, back-of-the-closet costume: white suit, feathered wings, black wig.
And Kwame? Kwame is a grudging participant on the day’s spooky self-care tour. Terry is dressed head to toe in white, crowned by a wispy halo Arabella, now a full-blown anti-rape social media activist who advocates doxxing, is in a black party dress topped with a headband of thick black horns. It’s Halloween night on I May Destroy You.
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