( Laughs.) I didn’t know until I got to the end, myself. Well, congratulations on being one of the few to survive Penn Badgley’s lunatic character, Joe Goldberg. Then he offered his thoughts on Sir Michael Caine’s recent retirement mixup and how he briefly thought he was in the acclaimed British actor’s final film. In a recent conversation with THR, Speedman dove deep into You season three’s many twists and turns. I think his fans are going to be very excited by this movie.” It definitely goes back to his body horror, science fiction-horror days. I think he wrote this script maybe a decade ago, … and he’s been wanting to make it.
“It just didn’t relate to the movie we’re doing now. “ was like, ‘Don’t bother watching that,'” Speedman shares. While Cronenberg already made a version of the film in 1970, Speedman makes it clear that this rendition bears little resemblance to the original. The British Canadian actor is also looking ahead to David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, which he recently wrapped in Greece, alongside Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux. They held their press release until it came out, which was nice.” So people knew about it, but they held off on it based on whatever relationship they have with Grey’s, ABC or Disney.
We shot three episodes in four days, so they just backlogged it.
“I think the Grey’s showrunners and the whole show had done it the year before with Patrick Dempsey and other returning people, so they had this infrastructure that knew how to do it. “Even I kept wondering how they were doing it,” Speedman says. And he, too, can’t believe the secret was somehow kept. Speedman also made headlines recently for his surprise return to ABC’s top-rated scripted series, Grey’s Anatomy, which he last appeared on as a guest star in season 14. So it’s fun to make it, but it also would’ve been fun to not make it. “But understanding the show, you kind of almost want to be killed by Joe Goldberg it could be kind of fun. “Once I started to see where Matthew and his stepson were going and who they were messing with, I kind of figured that one of us wasn’t going to make it here,” Speedman tells The Hollywood Reporter. 'Station 19' Bids Farewell to an Original Star Like the audience, he also assumed his character’s death was inevitable.
So Speedman is now reflecting on season three as a whole and how his surveillance-tech entrepreneur character, Matthew Engler, is one of the few characters to actually survive serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley). The psychological thriller has been dominating Netflix’s top 10 charts since the third season premiered a few weeks ago, and the latest season also tallied its highest Rotten Tomatoes score to date at 94 percent. Scott Speedman is no stranger to hit television shows, and his role on You season three now joins the ranks of Felicity, Grey’s Anatomy and Animal Kingdom.