Jenna Ortega's Planned You Season 4 Return Was Disrupted By Another Show

Though there were plans to bring Jenna Ortega’s character Ellie back for You season 4, the actor was unfit to duplication her part due to Wednesday. 

Jenna Ortega

Acording to You showrunner Sera Gamble, Jenna Ortega could not return for season 4 because of another show. Although she's been acting for over a decade, Ortega's fame has risen significantly in the once many times due to her performances in horror flicks like Ti West's X and 2022's Scream. It was her performance as the nominal Addams family member on Wednesday that soared the actor to a new position of celebrity, as she's come the face of one of the most popular shows in Netflix's history. But it might have been her depiction of Ellie Alves in You season 2 that handed a kindly early hint of bents that Ortega would bring to unborn systems. 

“We wanted to bring Ellie back and we heard, ‘Oh, Jenna is doing some show,’ It’s been just such a pleasure to see Jenna this year. We have ideas for Ellie if her schedule allows her to visit us again.”

Why Jenna Ortega's Ellie Needs To Return In You Season 5

 Speaking with IndieWire to promote You season 4, which is presently streaming on Netflix, Gamble mentioned that there were plans to bring Ellie back for the fourth investiture. Those plans were disintegrated because Ortega was busy working on Wednesday. In the quotation below, Gamble mentions that there are ideas for Ellie to show up again Any chance for Ortega to return in You season 5 would work both in terms of story and as a promotional move for Netflix. Gamble and the cast have mentioned before that they'd like to have Ellie return, and the request has probably been magnified by Wednesday's enormous success. There are intriguing ways to depict the character's comeback, similar as leaning into the fact that it's been several times since she's crossed paths with Penn Badgley's Joe Goldberg in You. She could be a different person than Joe remembers, although not too different from how Ortega has come a queen of horror since her stint on You. 

 Ellie's presence makes sense as further than just a buzzy gem, however. She had a great relationship with Joe that resembles good stock energy — right up until the point where he inadvertently, though carelessly, becomes responsible for her family's death. The last update about Ellie is that Joe sometimes sends her plutocrat and is passingly mentioned in the You season 4 premiere. likewise, she has changed by the awful circumstances that Joe more or less caused, although Joe doesn't go into the specifics. 

 Whether or not Ellie is the bone that leads to the end of Joe Goldberg, the possibility is likely that she could show up for an occasion or two before the series conclusion. That is particularly true if, as Badgley mentions, You might end soon on Netfllix. It could be just the time to tie up loose ends and incorporate a familiar face into the story.