SPOILERS are forward for You Season 5, now streaming for Netflix subscribers.
You Season 5 has simply dropped this week, which suggests one of many greatest reveals to binge-watch on Netflix has lastly ended after seven years. Whereas the fifth season consists of all kinds of cameos of actors from previous seasons, put together to be upset in the event you’re hoping for the return of Jenna Ortega’s Ellie Alves like we have been. Ortega was busy filming Wednesday, however the creators did share they’d a return initially in thoughts for her character.
When Jenna Ortega didn’t return for Season 4 of You, the actress shared she was each “devastated” and “bummed out” she couldn’t play Ellie once more attributable to her Wednesday capturing schedule, and apparently that occurred once more for the final season. As You showrunner Michael Foley advised Enterprise Insider:
That was sophisticated by the truth that she’s doing ‘Wednesday’ in Eire and it simply appeared like a non-starter… We simply could not determine a method to make it work.
Regardless of Jenna Ortega by no means making it on You following her Season 2 run, the showrunners did have an thought about how Ellie might return if it wasn’t for Wednesday getting in the way in which. They advised the publication that Ellie would have most likely come again on board to be a benefactor to Dominique and Phoenix, who work all through Season 5 to get Penn Badgley’s Joe behind bars and are profitable. Foley additionally stated this:
That was a thought that I am certain once we have been placing issues collectively, we felt like possibly we might make this work, and we simply merely could not.
Whereas it sounds just like the showrunners have been crafting up a approach that might put Ellie in opposition with Joe by the tip of the present, co-showrunner Justin W. Lo additionally had this thought throughout the interview relating to Ortega’s character:
You can make an argument for pro-Joe as a result of he was there for her throughout a really troublesome time in her life. However you may additionally say, I feel Ellie’s very good and she or he most likely is aware of that he had one thing to do along with her sister’s demise, although it was Love. So she might have turned towards him as properly.
When Jenna Ortega initially appeared on You for Season 2, the actress was 16 years outdated throughout filming and hadn’t but damaged out along with her larger roles in Scream or Wednesday, which each got here out in 2022. Within the function, she performed Joe’s neighbor when he moved from New York to Los Angeles for a contemporary begin. They ended up changing into shut acquaintances, and Joe developed a mushy spot for her. Nonetheless, Ellie’s older sister is the truth is murdered by Joe’s love curiosity that season, Victoria Pedretti’s Love Quinn.
Ellie’s involvement with You ended on a optimistic be aware with Joe sending her cash to maneuver to Florida, however within the years since her final look, it’s potential she might have put collectively that Joe was considerably concerned and labored with Dominique and Phoenix to take him down. It positively would have added layers to the ultimate season, which gave us blended emotions, however oh properly! We will look ahead to Jenna Ortega returning to Wednesday when the second season premieres on August 2, 2025.