Kepnes adds that the show's creative team all seemed to work around the newfound direction and 'handled it really well,' saying that the change could have even led to 'new turns and twists' for writers. 'I feel like if everyone in every work place got to say, 'This makes me uncomfortable,' it would be such a happier world,' she says. Though Kepnes was not involved in the decision, she shared her reaction. So how much less can you make it, was my question to them.”īadgely said Gamble had a 'really positive response,' as fans likely noticed in the lack of intimacy scenes during Season Four.

You can’t take this aspect out of the DNA of the concept. He continued, “I said to Sera, ‘My desire would be zero, to go from 100 to zero.’ But I signed this contract. It’s got to the point where I don’t want to do that,” he said. “Fidelity in every relationship, and especially in my marriage, is important to me. On a February episode of Podcrushed, which he co-hosts, he said he requested to 'You' director Sera Gamble that his character have no more sex scenes, citing his marriage.

Kepnes says the show's deviation is partly because actor Penn Badgley, who plays Joe, has made the character his own - which she says has been 'the coolest thing.'īadgley recently went public with a creative decision of his own regarding Joe. If you like the show, you find the books. 'I feel like if you like the books, you find the show. 'We've gone in different directions, which I think is cool,' Kepnes says. She appreciates that people are writing two separate 'Joe stories' from miles away. The most recent season of 'You,' which hit Netflix in 2024, strays from her latest novel in the series, 'For You and Only You.' 'I think the worst and it's something to do with all that nervousness.' 'It feels like a natural defense mechanism to be the one creating the scare,' she says. But that's also what's fueled her to write within the horror genre. 'What if someone was bad?'įor an author of thrillers, Kepnes says she scares easily. 'You know the way we have to pull ourselves back from looking too much and how it’s created this ability to know things we're not supposed to know?' she says.

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