How To Get Away With Murder 10 Hidden Details About Wes Gibbins That Everyone Missed

How To Get Away With Murder: 10 Hidden Details About Wes Gibbins That Everyone Missed

We all know Wes was taken off the waitlist by Annalise, but here are a few hidden details about his character that might have gone unnoticed.

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The Shonda Rhimes legal procedural/crime drama How To Get Away With Murder won the brilliant Viola Davis a Primetime Emmy for her portrayal of the extraordinary defense attorney-cum-law professor Annalise Keating. The series went on to have six seasons and bowed out with a generally satisfying finale.

One of the main leads of the series was Wesley Gibbins, the young man who was taken off the waitlist by Annalise and admitted into the program at Middleton Law School. Wes was played by the adorable Alfred Enoch whom fans already knew as Dean Thomas from the Harry Potter universe. Here are a few hidden details about his character that might have gone unnoticed.

10 Wes’ Mother Was In Trouble With ICE

The second season of the series dealt extensively with Wes’ past as Annalise’s complicated connection to his mother and the reason why she clearly had a soft corner for him was revealed.

Wes’s mother, Rose Edmond, who was a maid and worked for the Mahoney family, was blackmailed by the Mahoneys to act as a witness proving Charles Mahoney’s innocence in the murder of his fianceé. However, Rose was also intimidated by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department for her lack of records while entering the country. This put her in a very difficult position, especially since the Mahoneys knew that Wes was the product of rape and could have hurt him to pressurize Rose.

9 Wes’ Foster Care Is Hardly Mentioned

So much is shown about Wes’ past and how Annalise had crossed paths with his mother but very little is ever mentioned about his foster parents.

It seems that Wes’ foster parents must have been quite good people since he grew into a nice, serious young man who could have had a bright future as a criminal lawyer. However, the character never really talks about his parents, thus leaving a gap in the narrative of his rather intriguing but tragic past.

8 Wes Had Met Meggy’s Dad

For those who recall, Wes had dated a young woman called Meggy for a short while when he thought, mistakenly of course, that he might get a shot at a normal life after the whole Rebecca fiasco and after he had shot Annalise herself at the Hapstall mansion.

Turned out, staying on with Meggy could have been Wes’ ticket out of all that followed, and perhaps even his death. In fact, he had the window to do that since he even met with Meggy’s dad, although that didn’t go too well since the latter started almost interrogating him. If Wes had continued dating Meggy, he would probably be alive and well.

7 His Apartment Stays On

Wes Gibbins’ apartment plays a huge role in the show, both while he was alive and even after his death. Wes met Rebecca because she was a neighbor living in the apartment next to him, and fans know that Rebecca Sutter went on to have a crucial role in season 1.

The Keating 4 never let go of Wes’ apartment even after his devastating death. Laurel moved into his apartment soon after he died to go through the grieving process and after she moved out, Asher moved into the same apartment because he had nowhere else to go. In fact, the apartment remained pivotal to the story until the very end since Asher himself was murdered brutally right in front of it in season 6.

6 Wes’ Accent Was The Result of Method Acting

Actor Alfred Enoch is English and had not had any project in the US before he landed the role of Wes Gibbins. However, his American accent on the show was flawless.

One of the reasons for this was that Enoch stayed in character from the beginning until the end of production even when he wasn’t actually shooting. He would speak with an American accent throughout to perfect his intonations and many of the cast and crew had never heard him speak in any other accent at all.

5 Actor’s Scarves Became Part Of Character

The first season shows Wes wrapped up in multiple scarves a lot of the time. It seems the first few episodes, especially the pilot was shot during extreme winter and the actors took to wearing layers of clothing.

Enoch himself wore a number of scarves around his neck and requested that his character be made to wear the same. The scarves then became a part of Wes’ attire, especially in the scenes where four of the Keating 5 are dragging Sam Keating’s corpse through the forest.

4 Enoch Knew Wes Would Be Killed

The entire first half of season 3 of How To Get Away With Murder revolves around the mystery of who was under the sheet. In true HTGAWM style, the very first episode of the season showed Annalise screaming in shock and pain when she realized who had really been killed in the fire in her house. However, the audience found out that it was Wes only in the mid-season finale.

Wes’ death goes down in television history as one of the most disturbing character deaths ever. However, the actor has mentioned that he had been informed by creator Peter Nowalk about his character’s demise roughly a month before the episode was shot, even though actors normally found out about the events of the next episode only during the table reading.

3 Alfred Enoch Went Along With Creative Decision

The showrunner Peter Nowalk decided to kill off his secondary lead in a creative decision as it seemed to make the most sense in the context of the show. Apparently, the producers did have some concerns with his decision but went along with it in the end.

Enoch himself took the decision pretty well and supported the idea as it made creative sense to kill off Wes who had been much of the heart and soul of the story. Wes’s death really did shake things up a lot which is probably what the writers wanted.

2 Christopher Castillo Disappointed Fans

The midseason finale of season 6 gave the audiences a mini heart attack when Wes Gibbins seemed to show up for Annalise’ funeral which was the main mystery of the final season–was Annalise dead and if so, how did she die?

However, when the finale aired, it turned out that Wes was not Wes at all but his son Christopher Castillo who was now all grown up and being played by Enoch himself. Although this had an element of satisfaction to it, seeing that Wes’ son had grown up with a steady home thanks to Laurel, and looked exactly like his handsome late father, yet fans worldwide were a bit disappointed with the reveal since the idea of Wes coming back from the dead had been much more exciting.

1 Alfred Enoch Speaks Spanish

In the season finale, Christopher speaks to his mother in Spanish and is then shown addressing a class with a heavy Spanish accent. In reality, too, Enoch apparently speaks fluent Spanish, so the tiny bit of Spanish he had to speak must have been a cakewalk for him.

Enoch has studied languages and knows both Spanish and Portuguese, something that would surely help him tremendously as an actor. The actor excels in accents as is showcased by his American accent on the show.

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