Kaya Scodelario has admitted she has mixed feelings at the thought of her character in The Gentlemen ending up with Theo James’ Eddie.
The former Skins star recently reprised her role as Susie in Guy Ritchie’s hit Netflix crime drama, which returned for its long-awaited second season earlier this month.
She was once again paired up with White Lotus alum Theo in the new run of episodes, and even as their characters’ lives continued in more complicated directions, many fans remain keen to see Susie and Eddie getting together in the show’s future.
Asked about this during an interview with Cosmopolitan, Kaya claimed this is a subject she “really doesn’t know” how she feels about.
“It’s a lot more complicated than that,” she replied when asked about the suggestion that the pair are one another’s “endgame”. “Things take quite a darker turn. They don’t have time to go out on dates or pause everything that’s going on to talk about the puppies that they had growing up.
“They both are really aware that they do have chemistry, but they’re both very focused on their missions and that’s their endgame at the moment. But who knows?”
Speaking more broadly about Susie and Eddie’s unique bond in season two, Kaya noted: “[Their relationship] has evolved from this kinship, a purely business thing, into something deeper and more interesting.
“It was important to unlock whether she feels protective of him in a personal way or purely in a business sense.”
She continued: “She sees something in him that’s extremely unique. She’s worked with these kinds of aristocrats for a long time and she recognizes something in Eddie that is different—a fire beneath him that needs to be molded correctly.
“They genuinely work really well together. That’s something that she’s never encountered before. He sees in her what she wishes her father could see in her. Their work wife–work husband chemistry is really strong.”
Earlier this month, Theo James cast doubt on things ever turning romantic between his and Kaya’s characters.
“Our touching point in the beginning was always Moonlighting — Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis — and the idea of two people who kind of are in love, but never quite get together,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s a baseline.
“But in season two, we like the idea that they’re connected, but their distance is one of mistrust. On one hand, they’re the other’s greatest ally. But they are also heading to a path where one of them has to usurp the other because we’re talking about a kind of ascension story and how that’s going to happen, and who’s going to fail and who’s going to win.”
“There’s a sadness [to the relationship] because maybe they would, but ultimately they probably never can,” he added.
Both seasons of The Gentlemen are now streaming on Netflix, with a third having already been given the green light.
