‘The Cleaning Lady’: Élodie Yung Says Thony’s Out for ‘Revenge’ Leading Up to Finale
[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 8, “Know Thy Enemy.”]
Thony will avenge Arman if it’s the last thing she does in The Cleaning Lady. Series star Élodie Yung tells TV Insider that following Arman’s (the late Adan Canto) death in Episode 6, Thony has become a woman obsessed with “revenge,” and it will continue to affect her relationships with everyone in the show.
“She wants to take Ramona down,” Yung says of Arman’s aunt, played by Kate del Castillo. This vitriol is the result of Thony’s theory that Ramona is somehow tied to Arman’s kidnapping. Ramona, a cartel boss, was hellbent on getting her nephew back throughout the first half of the season, but Thony suspected an insidious truth lying beneath Ramona’s familial facade.
In Season 3 Episode 8, which aired on Tuesday, April 30 on FOX, Thony’s suspicions seemed to be confirmed when she found Ramona and Jorge (Santiago Cabrera) in the dilapidated apartment in which Arman was being held before his death. Written on a mirror in the room was the name “Marina,” Ramona’s other moniker. According to Ramona, Dante (Clayton Cardenas) found Arman hitting their routes but they realized it was him too late. She apologized for his abduction but denied any involvement. Thony isn’t buying that Ramona is innocent.
Yung says that from this point on, Ramona is the main antagonist of the season, and that “there’s this theme of revenge that we have in the second half [of Season 3] because of the loss Thony’s going through. Because she knows that Ramona has something to do with it, she wants to take her down.”
Arman’s widow, Nadia (Eva de Dominici) was arrested for insurance fraud in Episode 8, and she too believes that Ramona is responsible for Arman’s death. She may not have ordered it, but she didn’t stop it. Yung says that Thony and Nadia now have a shared enemy, and this will bring them closer together despite their love triangle. Thony says their shared love of Arman was once the cause of their rivalry, but now it will be the cause of their team-up.
“These are two women who fought in the past and definitely are not best friends, but they both shared the love for the same man. They both loved and love Arman, so in a very extreme and strange way, they’re all going to get closer, for sure,” says Yung.
While Thony and Nadia may be getting closer, Thony and her sister-in-law/best friend, Fiona (Martha Millan), are struggling.
“Thony is always so deep in, she lacks perspective on things,” Yung explains. “She’s a more reactive character. Fiona, on the other end, is seeing the bigger picture. She knows that Thony’s actions have consequences. She knows that she’s endangering her family, and so she’s kind of the conscience of this duo; she’s the reasonable one.”
Fiona’s reasonable streak leads her to strike a deal with Agent Russo (Liza Weil). If Fiona can provide intel on Arman’s captors, Russo will arrange protection for Fiona and her family, including Thony. Yung says this family bond will always be present.
“[Fiona] calls Thony out and she disagrees with some of her actions,” Yung says, “but at the same time, she is a family member and she loves Thony and wants to help her get out of some of those situations.”
Thony will continue to unravel as she grieves the loss of the man she loves in the remaining episodes of The Cleaning Lady Season 3, which will culminate in a two-part finale on Tuesday, May 21.
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Arman was the reason I watched 💔 there’s no show without him
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So glad there will be a season 4 and then hopefully a season 5. I love this show so much. Intriguing, never boring, you can’t just predict what will happen next. I really liked Adan. So sorry we lost him.
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I just had a gut feeling that Jeremy was FBI and now I know my gut was right. What gave it to me was that he was the only one that could have contacted the FBI when they were trying to get Arman back and then with him putting the cameras up in the house,which they are using to get information. This just keeps getting more intense and exciting, can't believe that there are only a couple episodes left of the season and no word yet if it is renewed for another season.
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Episode eight was the last straw for my wife and me. The season's story lines have been irrational, contradictory, and just plain bewildering. Doubt this show will get renewed with its series low ratings of late, deservedly so.
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Really looking forward to the team up between Thony and Nadia. Fingers crossed for a season 4!
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