The fourth season of You just premiered and there’s a familiar face that you won’t see in the new episodes.

Jenna Ortega starred in season two as Ellie Alves and she is one of the few series regulars who befriended Penn Badgley‘s Joe and lived to see another day. Unfortunately, she hasn’t been back on the show since the end of season two and the show’s creator is addressing her absence.

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“We wanted to bring Ellie back and we heard, ‘Oh, Jenna is doing some show,’” showrunner and co-creator Sera Gamble told IndieWire. “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.”

As you probably know, that “show” is Netflix’s hit series Wednesday.

“Any character who’s not dead who knows anything about Joe, it’s fair game to try to exert any justice. And any character who is dead, he has a really active imagination,” Sera said. “These are some busy, in-demand actors.”

Jenna previously told Teen Vogue, “It would be amazing to see Ellie come back and take control of her life. I just want her to be an even bigger badass. I don’t want her to come back and be extremely vulnerable and sad. We have to remember that even though people still find Joe somewhat charming, he’s evil, he does terrible things, and he gets away with them because of his gender and race and his position in society. [Ellie] has so much potential and so much talent that she shouldn’t waste because of him.”

Jenna has an exciting movie hitting theaters next month!

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