A huge plot twist in last week’s episode has completely turned FX’s Grotesquerie upside down. Detective Lois Tryon is unlike any other character that series lead Niecy Nash-Betts has portrayed throughout her career. For Nash-Betts, she welcomes any challenge with an open heart. “She’s very, very layered,” Nash-Betts told Blavity’s Shadow and Act in a recent interview about the big twist reveal. “I’ve never played a woman who was battling alcoholism. I’ve never paid a woman, I don’t think, that has been in that much emotional pain from the relationship with her husband and the relationship with her daughter. I’ve never played any woman trying to do all she can amid her own spiral. So that made it very interesting to me on the page, and I was like, ‘I’ve never done this. Oh, pick me. I would love to.’ I’m so happy that I got a chance to discover different parts of my art through this character.” What was the recent Grotesquerie plot twist about? In a twist of events following the...
