Does Rhys die in 'You' Season 4? In an unique interview with 'Distractify,' Ed Speleers opens up in regards to the main twist and his character's fate.
Spoiler alert: This article accommodates main spoilers for Season 4, Part 2 of You.
Following the eat-the-rich killer reveal on the finish of Season 4, Part 1 of You, everybody's favourite serial killer, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), vows to take down the wrongdoer, Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers), and put a prevent to his murderous techniques as soon as and for all.
With the second one phase now streaming on Netflix, does Joe be successful? Better yet, does he kill Rhys?
In an unique interview with Distractify, English actor Ed Speleers opened up about his character's fate and if he makes it out of Season 4 alive. Plus, he spoke concerning the major plot twist nobody, and we imply no one, saw coming.
So, does Rhys die in 'You' Season 4?
In the final moments of Episode 7, titled "Good Man, Cruel World," Joe locates the nation-state cottage the place Rhys has gone into hiding. The serial stalker approaches and tortures him for Marienne's location — Rhys pleads his innocence, but Joe kills him via strangling him to loss of life ... best to then be informed he never knew Rhys.
Wait, what?! As it turns out, Rhys is solely a figment of Joe's creativeness ... neatly, kind of.
The author and mayoral candidate does in reality exist, however he's not the eat-the-rich killer and he is never in truth interacted with Joe like Part 1 leads viewers to consider. Instead, Joe is disassociating and projecting probably the most vicious portions of himself onto Rhys. Thus, the Rhys he talks to could be very much a hallucination.
Ed Speleers said the twist allowed him to "throw my weight behind the character."
Of route, Distractify had to ask Ed Speleers about the major plot twist and Rhys's involvement! When asked about his initial response to Rhys being a figment of Joe's imagination, Ed advised Distractify he was "very excited."
"I loved it, and I think I couldn't have taken on a role like this if I didn't know where it was going to and where we come from," he said. (*4*)#">Fight Club — but I feel that this is very different."
"It was an opportunity to delve deep into [a] complete loony mind, really, and try and understand what on earth [Joe's] up to and why he's up to it," Ed exclusively told us. "I had the chance to have so much fun playing that kind of role, which sounds strange considering what he is trying to orchestrate through Joe, but in the world we're in, it was a lot of fun."
Ed continued, "I think some of the dialogue presented to me just allowed me to really throw my weight behind the character [and] behind the story. I loved the fact that, because I didn't focus on what was necessarily happening and what his sort of existence was, I allowed myself to feel quite unshackled and to relish how he was operating and how he was manipulating Joe."
"Even when [Rhys is] manipulating him, he's always trying to do with a quip; he's always trying to find a touch of humor," Ed told Distractify. "This humor is always thrown in — to which I mean, props to [the writers] for doing that because they always find a way to do that ... and I think Rhys had that in bucket loads, so I was very fortunate with that."
You Season 4, Part 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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