There have been loads of mysteries that befell the doomed titular household in Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Try as they could, the kids of Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) simply couldn’t appear to flee dying’s icy grip in ways in which appeared fully unfathomable. But one of the present’s longest-lasting mysteries got here in the kind of a zone-out-and-you’ll-miss-it remark made by Mary McDonnell’s Madeline Usher.

For a quick refresher, once they have been younger, siblings, Madeline and Roderick made a take care of the satan — or on this case an entity referred to as Verna (Carla Gugino) — that may see them rise from rags to riches, particularly by their pharmaceutical firm, Fortunato. There’s only one little hangup — their bloodline would finally pay the penalties, as any of the kids or grandchildren that they’d have been to primarily function sacrifices. While Madeline took the deal very critically, by no means having any kids, Roderick couldn’t appear to maintain it in his pants, parenting a slew of children with numerous companions. But, though she by no means bore kids, it’s teased that, for a fleeting second, Madeline was married.

Hoping to get to the backside of the burning query that’s been on our minds for the final yr, Perri Nemiroff requested Willa Fitzgerald about the unexplained marriage when the actress swung by for Collider Ladies Night. Fitzgerald performed the youthful model of Madeline, which might lead one to suppose that if anybody apart from McDonnell knew the juicy particulars, it could be her. Sadly, Fitzgerald is simply as a lot in the darkish about all of it as the relaxation of us, responding, “No, I have no idea.”

The Plot Thickens

Fitzgerald’s uncertainty about her character’s one-time partner is thru no fault of her personal, as she defined that she scoured the script and there was by no means a point out or tease of any kind of romantic connection. This led her to imagine that whoever Madeline fell in love with was after her time as the character got here to an finish.

“Actually, after I was prepping the factor, I principally took my scenes out as a result of they have been all chronologically so as in the flashbacks, and simply made myself my very own little script with all of my stuff in it. So, I feel after I was prepping,
I don’t even suppose I had an consciousness of that line or that point out of that taking place
. I didn’t must comprehend it as a result of it’s not one thing that had already occurred. But no, I do not know. But
I do imagine it was in all probability an excellent match for good causes
that didn’t have an excellent finish.”

So, sadly, the case of Madeline’s long-lost lover continues, though Fitzgerald added, “I don’t think it was for some sort of, like, fool’s love errand.”

The Fall of the House of Usher is now streaming on Netflix. You can watch Fitzgerald’s full episode of Collider Ladies Night beneath.

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