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

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

Madeline Brewer is opening up about her function as considered one of You‘s closing women.

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

She continued, “It was intense, however it 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. But actually traumatizing in loads 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 function of Louise Flannery within the hit Netflix present’s buzzy closing season. Louise is an English scholar from Ohio who as soon as labored with TA Guinivere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) at New York University. 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 could 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.

The present’s closing 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. Throughout 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 various different characters of their orbit.

In the top, You’s serial killer is caught and dropped at justice for his crimes after a world 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’s been a profound expertise for me. He’s not an actual particular person. So what have I been doing? I’ve been partaking on this … my total 30s,” Badgley mentioned.

“I grew to become a father whereas I used to be on this present. I solely bought married simply earlier than I took the function. So I’ve grown rather a lot and I’ve grown with Joe in a wierd approach,” he added. “He’s taught me rather a lot about what it’s to be a person by realizing what it isn’t. And I do not imply the apparent issues like, ‘Oh, do not homicide, that is dangerous.’ That’s very clear.”

Season 5 of You is now streaming on Netflix.