Mabel Elmsworth is finally done hiding, and nobody is happier about it than Josie Totah. In fact, it was The Buccaneers actor’s idea for her closeted debutante character to plant a kiss on her girlfriend Honoria (Mia Threapleton) in front of all her friends in the penultimate episode of Season 2. Well, actually her pitch was for something even more shocking.

“I wanted it to be at a ball, like at a big party, just full drama,” Totah tells Elite Daily. For the 24-year-old actor, it was time to either bring Mabel’s sexuality out into the open “or you have to kill her.”

“Give me a dramatic ending, or send me to prison for being gay. Do something wild, but don’t just let me be OK in the shadows,” Totah says. Luckily, the producers were receptive to her vision for Mabel’s future. “I was

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