[VIDEO] ‘The Power’: Toheeb Jimoh on Tunde and Ndudi in Episode 6

Warning: The following accommodates spoilers for The Power Episode 6. Proceed at your personal danger!

From this week’s grim episode of The Power emerged at the least one shiny spot: a brand new romance between Tunde (performed by Ted Lasso‘s Toheeb Jimoh) and Ndudi (newcomer Heather Agyepong).

In the hour, streaming now on Prime Video, Tunde returned from investigating using the biologically produced electrical shocks by ladies in Saudi Arabia. He then attended a buddy’s marriage ceremony the place he met up with Ndudi, who he hadn’t seen since she was hospitalized after being unexpectedly struck by the facility (an damage that was partially Tunde’s fault).

After some gentle banter, Ndudi mentioned, “You have everything you’ve ever wanted,” and Tunde remarked, “Not everything,” earlier than smirking and providing her a drink. There was just a little dialogue of Tunde’s current travels, just a little intensification of their chemistry, and then the intercourse scene that adopted instructed us precisely what we speculated from the premiere: Ndudi has all the time had emotions for Tunde, it simply took him some time to note.

In the video above, Jimoh and Agyepong inform TVLine about their characters’ budding romance, with Jimoh admitting that he was ready for his character to understand the emotions he’d had for Ndudi all lengthy.

“Sometimes when something is this close to you, you kind of take it for granted and you don’t really see it,” Jimoh says in the video above. “And it isn’t until Tunde goes out and sees the rest of the world, and is kind of broken out of his sheltered little privileged bubble that he’s lived in his entire life and sees everything else, that he comes back and he realizes that this relationship that he’s now missing out on is nurturing, is his safe space, and this is somebody who he cares about ultimately.”

Agyepong then opens up about the way in which the present honors Ndudi’s wants all through the episode.

“Ndudi wants Tunde from the jump, but she’s just trying to figure that out,” she says. “She’s scared. She’s fearful. She’s fearful of rejection, but the next time you see her after Tunde’s gone on his journey, she knows exactly what she wants. There’s a confidence and an inner strength,” Agyepong says. “She gets what she wants, and there is a beautiful celebration in that.”

Check out the video above to listen to Jimoh and Agyepong discuss their characters’ relationship, in addition to Agyepong’s ideas on what she did — and didn’t — wish to do whereas portraying Ndudi’s trauma. Then head to the feedback to tell us how you are feeling!