Stay Close ends with a killer reveal, heartbreaking answers, and one last huge twist.
Lets talk about it.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about Netflix’sStay Close.
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Megan Pierce (Cush Jumbo) reopened the door to her past and nothing will ever be the same.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Apart from the setting, what else did you change when adapting your book?
What remained the same?
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HARLAN COBEN:Most of the story was the same.
All of that backbone is still mainly from the book.
We changed the ending and added one more twist.
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We added some characters, gave the teens a bigger role.
[Megan’s] children did not have the same track in the book.
What inspired her motive?
Lorraine seems to have a fairly sympathetic motive to a lot of people.
DS Broome and Lorraine have a wonderful relationship that is destroyed when Lorraine confesses.
Can you talk about the development of that dynamic?
I love the idea of a romance later in life.
They have been through the wars and have come to each other.
A lot of the emotional backbone was going to rest on Broome and Lorraine’s relationship.
There’s been a big response to the Ken and Barbie killers.
Ray pays a high price for his devotion to Megan, or, as he knew her, Cassie.
Tell me a bit about how you chose his ending.
Where do you imagine he goes from here?
That doesn’t mean their lives are better now.
Ray is in a pretty good position, though.
He seems to be getting back on track and returning to his old job.
I started him as low as you could be, as a paparazzi for hire.
Ray is going to be okay, or as okay as Ray can be.
He’s got issues, but I don’t want him to be good suddenly.
He got his answers, but his heart might still need to be repaired.
Stay Closeis full of twists.
Do you have one you were most excited to see on the show?
The twist I was dying to see is the final one.
I got a chill.
Those two twists, in particular, really landed.
Megan’s new secret was a twist you added.
Can you share what was behind that choice?
I love twists and turns.
I came up with this idea for how to make people other than the serial killer guilty.
Do you know whether or not Megan tells her family the truth about Carlton’s death?
I would rather have the audience do it, but it’s complicated.
What do you think about how people have been reacting toStay Close?
Some of the responses I don’t quite get.
I don’t know why people think [Megan] lives in the same town, for example.
But that’s how it always is, and all the reactions are fun.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
Stay Closeis currently streaming on Netflix.
