You actor Madeline Brewer had 'very uncomfortable' sex scene with Penn Badgley while filming new series

After years of being many fans’ favourite show, You came to an end last week when season five finally landed.

All 10 episodes dropped on Netflix on 24 April, closing the book on Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) as he returned to New York after three years.

However, while his wife Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) is CEO of the Lockwood Corporation, the serial killer crosses paths with yet another young woman. This time its Madeline Brewer’s character Bronte, who makes him reconsider his affluent life.

She’s essentially the final ‘You’ and has opened up about how the intimate scenes in the show were anything but romantic.

The Handmaid’s Tale actor said she had a ‘very uncomfortable’ sex scene with Badgley. But she notes that the pair are ‘old hats at this’.

“I’ve done so many intimate scenes—six simulated sex scenes. Penn has obviously been doing this show for years,” she told Elle.

With the pair in long-term relationships off-screen, Brewer says that helped keep things neutral during filming as ‘there’s no tension, it’s just choreography’.

She added that the stars would have a check-in with one another between scenes and she reiterates that it all ‘really does feel like just going to work’.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy as pie as there was still some awkwardness on set with particular scenes.

“There’s one in particular, where I’m kind of under a table... very uncomfortable, very strange,” Brewer described.

She says the pair are 'old hats at this' (Netflix)

Although, ‘old hat’ Badgley did his best to keep things as normal as he could, as he’d tell her: “Maddie, I’ve been doing this for so long. Don’t worry about it. I’ll let you know if I’m not OK.”

As is the expectation nowadays across films and shows, there was an intimacy coordinator to assist with these scenes and make sure they were done in the best way possible for the actors.

On You, it was Allison Jones who Brewer describes as ‘wonderful’.

“She let us guide the scene, and it was incredibly respectful from all parties,” the star added. “Which is exactly how it should be.”

The series has now come to an end (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

In the final episode, there’s a real explosive confrontation between the pair and Badgley said he wanted to ‘be as naked as possible’.

He explained that he believed Joe needed to be as ‘dangerously close’ to being seen as the ‘sexual predator that he was’.

"He needed to be seen in that way to be kind of saying to everybody, is this what you needed to see in order to realize who he is?” he told People.

“We withheld it from now, but is this what you need to see? And that's, I think, a really juicy kind of engagement and question with the viewer that we're all a part of.”