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‘You”s Madeline Brewer on Filming ‘Traumatizing’ Standoff Between Joe and Brontë (Unique)theinsiderinsight

Warning: This put up accommodates spoilers from the ultimate season of You.

Madeline Brewer is opening up about her position as one among You‘s last ladies.

On the launch celebration for the PEOPLE app, held on the Resort Chelsea in New York Metropolis on Tuesday, April 29, Brewer, 33, broke down the present’s dramatic ending. The actress informed PEOPLE completely, “It was an enormous second and it was actually thrilling to assist land the aircraft of those 5 seasons of a present.”

She continued, “It was intense, but it surely was actually choreographed. It was each second, all the way down to the place little scrapes and issues have been on us have been tremendous choreographed. However actually traumatizing in a number of methods. I talked about this on Penn [Badgley]’s Podcrushed Podcast. Yeah, it was actually intense. It was nice although.”

Brewer stepped into the position of Louise Flannery within the hit Netflix present’s buzzy last season. Louise is an English scholar from Ohio who as soon as labored with TA Guinivere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) at New York College. Beck was the central love curiosity in You season one, and among the many present’s serial killer Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley) first victims.

Upon discovering that Beck’s true killer might have gotten away with homicide, she adopts the alter-ego of Brontë (named after the well-known literary Brontë sisters of Gothic literature) to lure Joe Goldberg to justice after getting a job in his bookstore.

Anna Camp, Tati Gabrielle, Natasha Behnam, Madeline Brewer, Tom Francis, Penn Badgley, Frankie DeMaio, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Elizabeth Lail, Charlotte Ritchie, Pete Ploszek and Griffin Matthews attend the YOU S5 NYC Particular Screening on the Paris Theater on April 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis.

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The present’s last showdown sees Brontë and Joe engaged in a grisly confrontation within the woods close to the U.S.-Canadian border, the place Brontë enticed him underneath the guise of fleeing the nation collectively. All through the present’s five-season run, Joe’s character kills off a number of of his love pursuits, beginning with Beck, and later his spouse, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) together with quite a lot of different characters of their orbit.

In the long run, You’s serial killer is caught and dropped at justice for his crimes after a global killing spree spanning a number of years.

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Badgley, 38, beforehand spoke with PEOPLE about saying goodbye to his controversial character. “He is been a profound expertise for me. He isn’t an actual particular person. So what have I been doing? I have been participating on this … my complete 30s,” Badgley mentioned.

“I grew to become a father whereas I used to be on this present. I solely obtained married simply earlier than I took the position. So I’ve grown loads and I’ve grown with Joe in an odd method,” he added. “He is taught me loads about what it’s to be a person by realizing what it’s not. And I do not imply the apparent issues like, ‘Oh, do not homicide, that is unhealthy.’ That is very clear.”

Season 5 of You is now streaming on Netflix.

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