Paradise’s Enuka Okuma on the ‘Perfect Timing’ of Teri’s Big Reunion

Finding the right actress to play Teri Rogers-Collins in Paradise was a challenge. As the wife of Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown), a Secret Service agent turned survivor, Teri doesn’t have much screen time in the first season, and it’s initially unclear if she even made it through the disaster that devastated the world. However, the hope that she survived is a major driving force for Xavier, and discovering that she did survive fuels his dangerous quest in the second season. Teri needed to be a powerful symbol of hope for Xavier – someone he would risk everything to be reunited with. It was a demanding role to fill.






