Joe Goldberg is putting on his baseball cap and lurking in the shadows one last time in the fifth and final season of 'You.' Star Penn Badgley sat down with The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor to talk about how it all ends for the show that first premiered in 2018. Plus, he shared what he kept from the set of the Netflix show, as well as what he will and won't miss about playing Joe.
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00:00I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it. I think it is a pretty fantastic ending for a show that is very hard to end.
00:07Joe Goldberg is putting on his baseball cap and lurking in the shadows one last time in the fifth and final season of You.
00:14Starpin Badgley sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about how it all ends for the show that first premiered in 2018.
00:21After spending the past few installments of the psychological thriller in California and across the pond in London, England,
00:26season five sees Joe return to where it all began in season one, New York City.
00:31What was it like bringing it all full circle?
00:34Lovely. I mean, at the very least, I got to stay home. Every other season, I've had to live somewhere else.
00:38And I think that was it. It was like, it was bringing it home for me literally and figuratively.
00:42It was just, it was a great way to finally hang up my hat.
00:48Why do you feel you need to sneak off and write murder fantasies?
00:51It's just writing.
00:52Yeah, I mean, if you'd never killed anyone, but this is, this reads like you relish it.
00:57So Joe is known for keeping trinkets from his victims.
01:00I like that you say trinkets.
01:03Teeth.
01:05Teeth and should I say the other one that starts with a T?
01:07No, nobody likes that, but yeah, yeah. So yes, he keeps trinkets.
01:10But did you get to keep anything from the set of the show once you were done filming?
01:14You know what's funny? I kept one pair of like, like track pants, like, like sweat, sweat pants.
01:21That is, I think the only thing I kept.
01:24I mean, because, you know, what else am I going to keep?
01:27You know, I don't want to look like him any more than I already do.
01:31Oh, you know what? Every season I take probably about five or so books from the, from what, he's always got books somewhere, right?
01:37And so, you know, they fill the set with all of these old used books and some of them are real treasures, you know?
01:44They're not like, they're not like valuable, but they're just interesting.
01:46What were you doing in here?
01:49I was looking.
01:51I figured that the rare books might be down here, so I wanted to see them.
01:55So you ticked a lot?
01:56What's one thing you'll miss about playing Joe and what's one thing you won't miss?
02:00I'll miss the physicality.
02:01He's a highly physical, like kind of athletic, very,
02:04like, I have to be very grounded and in my body in order to play him, even if he's not.
02:10So I like that.
02:11That's a very nice thing as an actor.
02:13What I won't miss, well, if anything, it's the effects of that,
02:18because usually halfway through the season, I end up having like these really specific back problems
02:22and like neck pains, like they're, and they can be pretty bad.
02:26You just have to work through them or whatever, but yeah, I won't, I won't miss that.
02:31You've always been critical of people, you know, worshipping and idolizing Joe
02:36in a romantic way, the way that the internet has.
02:40Without giving too much away, what can you tease about how this all ends for him?
02:44How you hope the audience responds?
02:46I think we've done it a bit, dare I say, perfectly.
02:50The only kind of way, the only way that could possibly check as many boxes as possible
02:54and be truly satisfying and feel just, I think we've done that.
02:58And that's not me, that's the writers, you know, they do that and then I just perform it.
03:03That's as much as I think I can say without, you know, otherwise it's a spoiler.
03:06But I really think, I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it.
03:09I think it is a pretty fantastic ending for a show that is very hard to end.
03:14The fifth and final season of You is now streaming on Netflix.
03:17For all the latest TV news, head to THR.com.
03:22For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.