You might recognise the show’s new star from her role in another Netflix hit.
Netflix has confirmed that hit thriller You will be returning for a second season, with The Haunting of Hill House’s Victoria Pedretti in a lead role.
The streaming platform announced the news in a series of tweets posted earlier today, which read: “1. @YouNetflix will be returning for a second season. 2. The female lead will be played by Nell from The Haunting of Hill House! 3. She will play an aspiring chef called LOVE QUINN. 4. You have our attention.”
Pedretti previously starred as Nell in Netflix’s chilling adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, and will also appear in Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. The second season will be based on the next book in Caroline Kepnes You novels, Hidden Bodies, which sees murderous bookseller Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) swap New York City for Los Angeles.
According to a report in Deadline, Pedretti’s character is unlike season one’s Guinevere Beck in that she is “uninterested in the world of social media, branding and self-promotion, focused instead on leading an interesting life.
“She is also tending to a deep grief – and when she meets Joe Goldberg, she senses a shared knowledge of profound, life-changing loss.”
Describing the new dynamic for season two in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Sera Gamble explained: “Season 1 was a particular kind of story that we could tell about the relationship between Joe and Beck and the moment that we did what we did in the finale, that’s not repeatable.”
“I will say that Love is a person he could only have met after what happened between him and Beck.”
Responding to the announcement on Twitter, fans were quick to jokingly suggest that Pedretti’s character should “invest in curtains,” after Beck’s total lack of privacy in her apartment became a major talking point of the first series.
“Two tips for you my friend LOVE QUINN: 1. Invest in curtains 2. Don’t trust cute guys named Joe who own bookstores,” one follower quipped.
Netflix are yet to confirm a release date for the second series. Badgley previously described Goldberg as a “surreal progression” of his famous Gossip Girl character, Dan Humphrey, who moonlighted as the show’s eponymous gossip blogger.
“He’s the very special white man who somehow thinks that he’s an outsider, and it’s like, ‘Bro, you’re not an outsider – you are the inside; everyone else is on the outside,” he told the New York Times.
“It would all be so comical, if it wasn’t also the generating impulse for so much prejudice which can get translated into violence.”
Season one of You is currently streaming on Netflix.
– Courtesy: Evening Standard
