Euphoria‘s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is addressing the confusion over Alamo and Maddy’s shocking hookup.
“With regard to the wonderful Alexa Demie — and what a great performance of Maddy — there was a lot of conjecture as to whether she slept with him,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje didn’t have as many questions.
“He laid out the bikini, he put on Etta James, he got the champagne, he’s in the hot tub in a snake skin speedo,” he noted. “I don’t think he’s there to play with the tootsies. So I just thought that was pretty obvious.”
The actor has enjoyed the offscreen reaction to his character’s development, adding, “What has been amusing is I’ve seen a few memes of what they call M and M — Mo and Mads — with four cocoa colored babies. That’s kind of fun. But I’ve done my part. I leave the rest for you guys to make your own movies.”
Euphoria viewers were initially confused after a May episode of the hit HBO show had Alamo forcing Maddy to put on a bathing suit and get in a hot tub with him. He ultimately agreed to help Maddy get the $1 million needed to save Nate (Jacob Elordi), but the scene cut off before the rest of their interaction was shown.
In the season 3 finale, which aired earlier this month, Maddy visited Alamo at his strip club, where he made a move on her while proposing they have four kids together. Alamo started to touch Maddy — who got on his lap — before the scene cut out again amid an implied but unseen kiss.
“I think he saw things in Maddie that reminded him of himself,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje shared. “She’s a business woman, she’s bold and she’s well put together. She’s a no-nonsense person.”
Akinnuoye-Agbaje thought Alamo was “turned on by that,” saying, “He was inspired by that. The point that she came into his life, he had achieved everything, he defeated the DEA, he defeated Laurie, he got rid of Rue the rat and he’d gotten all of the drugs and the money. He was on top of the world.”
Alamo was ready for something serious with Maddy.
“He realized he has everything but nothing. He had this wonderful moment of self-reflection — this epiphany that he had been exploiting women all this time — and now he wanted to surrender to them,” he continued. “He mistakenly — or rightly — thought that, ‘OK, Maddy, you’re The One.’ But obviously when push comes to shove — excuse the pun — he threw her out the window and used her as a bulletproof shield.”
Akinnuoye-Agbaje only saw one ending for Alamo. “He was always going to be about himself first,” he told Us. “That is the man. So would they have had a future? I think he would have tried. They would have had their cocoa colored babies, perhaps. But I think anytime he was under threat — his empire or his life — he would have sacrificed her in a minute as we saw in the showdown.”
After playing such a divisive character, Akinnuoye-Agbaje is curious what role will come his way next, adding, “I personally always like to go with things that challenge me to do something different. It could be humor or could be a comedy. The one thing I would say is that I’ve played a character that’s been so rich, complex, and layered that anything I do has to be at least on that level.”
He concluded, “How that manifests, I don’t mind. But I think I always like to keep my audience guessing. I enjoy disappearing from myself and transforming. So it would be probably something different for what I’ve played. It could be something that’s the antithesis to what I’ve just played.”
Euphoria is currently streaming on HBO Max.
