Charlotte Ritchie chats with THR at the season five premiere of Netflix's 'YOU' and shares what she'll miss about Penn Badgley as the series comes to an end. Plus, she reveals if Joe gets an appropriate ending.
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00:00So, of course, this is the final season.
00:02I also hear that there is a three-year time jump.
00:05So how does that change the dynamic of where we pick up?
00:09So there's a three-year time jump.
00:11We meet Joe and Kate in New York.
00:14They've been married.
00:15They are married.
00:16And they have adopted or, like, re-found Joe's son, Henry.
00:22So they're parents.
00:24Kate's running the company in New York, her father's company.
00:27And so, yeah, so they're kind of in, they're, like, on top suddenly.
00:31They've been in the shadows.
00:32And they've been having quite a kind of stressful time in London.
00:35And now they're really just, like, thriving.
00:37And Joe is himself again.
00:38And he's using his own name.
00:40And so they're kind of back to New York, back to kind of, he's sort of in his element.
00:44But it can obviously only last them all.
00:46What did you think when you first read the final scripts?
00:49Do you think that Joe gets an appropriate ending?
00:55I do.
00:56I think, yes, I do.
00:58But I really think it's hard.
01:00I don't know how you're supposed to conclude a life like that.
01:03Like, his life is so, the things he's done are so abhorrent.
01:06The depths of his depravity.
01:10It's hard to know what you do, whether, like, I don't know.
01:14I was just about to say the ending.
01:17Listen, we're all ears.
01:20Yeah, I don't know.
01:21I think so.
01:22I think he does.
01:22But I think there's multiple ways in which you would want to see the end of that character.
01:27And all of them in some ways would fit.
01:28I'm really pleased with this one, I think.
01:30Yeah.
01:31What are you going to miss the most about having Penn as a scene partner?
01:34Oh, I'm going to miss hanging out with him.
01:37And I really enjoy his company.
01:39He's really funny, despite how kind of thoughtful and, like, sincere he can be and how awful he is as Joe.
01:46And, like, he's a fantastic actor.
01:47But he is as lovely as Joe, as awful.
01:50He's also got so much lightness in him.
01:52And he's such good company.
01:53And he's really funny.
01:55So I'll miss that.
01:56Yeah.
01:56And he's all the way over here.
01:57So I don't know how often I'll see him.
01:59And his family's lovely.
02:00So, yeah, I'll miss that.
02:01But for sure, nice to be reunited tonight.
02:04I also wanted to ask, I know there's a little bit of a debate going on on who Joe's most iconic love interest is.
02:11But who do you think, I think it's up for debate, for sure.
02:15But who do you think would be his best match had he not been an obsessive serial killer?
02:21Oh, wow.
02:22There's something in, there's something in, maybe it's between, maybe it's between Marianne and Bronte.
02:33Something about their, like, soulfulness that is, he has interests and leanings that are sensitive.
02:42And he's got, if he was not who he was, he might be, like, a kind of soft person, strangely.
02:48And his interests might chime with them.
02:50But he's not.
02:51He's a bad guy, so he doesn't deserve any of them.
02:54And finally, I know that this show does take obsession to the extreme.
02:58But I wanted to know for you, what is your current healthy obsession?
03:01Oh, healthy obsession.
03:02Oh, I would say, and this is really, I guess it's too much to say, but I would say being, hugging for longer than a couple of seconds is good for your nervous system.
03:18So this is my, but I rarely, like, you have to be careful, you have to do it with the right people.
03:22Not everybody wants it.
03:23And then it could be, like, bad.
03:25Because they're, like, you can feel that they're, like, please get off me, which is a bad feeling.
03:28So I think that's a big one, yeah.
03:31And sleep, napping, and napping as often as I can.
03:34Oh, I'm a big napper.
03:35That's a great obsession.
03:36It's really great.