'You' actor confesses character was inspired by A$AP Rocky's style

Griffin Matthew, who plays the brother-in-law, Teddy Lockwood, of the show’s protagonist, Joe Goldberg, in the final season recently how Rihanna’s beau inspired him.

In a new chat with Us Weekly, Griffin shared that he was already a fan of the thriller series when he was offered the show.

“The first thing that I did when I got the job is I made a Pinterest board and it was all ASAP Rocky. I saw ASAP Rocky in a Gucci ad and I was like, ‘Here is what’s so interesting, this guy is Harlem on the top and Gucci on the bottom,'” he began.

They went on to reveal, “I loved that image of this Black man in New York City who is part of this billionaire, white and half British family.”

Expressing uncertainty over how long his character was supposed to survive in the presence of the beloved seriel killer, played by Penn Badgley, he addressed, “I knew the show and I didn’t know if I was going to live or die when I signed on. I had no idea from episode to episode.”

"I just said to the showrunners, ‘Please just don’t kill me first please.’ But I wanted to create a world in which there was a question around Teddy that we didn’t know what his motives were and we didn’t know where he would land,” he recalled.

Before conclusion, he said, “Since we never knew from week to week who was going to live and who was going to die, you are doing your best work to try to create a world in which not only do you not know but the audience does not know. That’s the best part of shooting a show like this.”