The Umbrella Academy Stars Talk Five and Lila’s Surprising Subway Trip: ‘Of Course There’s Love There’ (Watch)
The following post contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy‘s complete fourth and final season.
We really thought we’d seen it all on The Umbrella Academy. A telekinetic cube named Christopher? A Footloose-inspired dance number that Diego hallucinated? Number Five in love with a mannequin named Dolores? Check, check and check. What more could shock us?
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And yet, the Netflix series still found a way to surprise us in its fourth and final season, by way of an even more unexpected love interest for Number Five than Dolores: Lila Pitts.
During Season 4, Five and Lila — the latter of whom is married, with children, to Five’s brother Diego — discovered an underground subway system that journeyed through the space-time continuum, with each subway stop bringing them to the exact same moment in time, just in a different universe. At some point in their travels, Five and Lila got lost, and they spent the next seven years (!) trying to decode the subway system before Five finally found a way home. (Seven years in Subway Standard Time, at least; for everyone else above ground, the two of them were only gone for a few hours.) Over the years, their pseudo-friendship turned to affection, which turned to full-blown romance, making for an unforeseen love triangle when Five and Lila finally got home — and Lila had to tell Diego what had transpired.
“Lila and Five are so much more similar than they want to give each other credit for,” showrunner Steve Blackman posits in the video above. “They’re constantly fighting and bickering, but they’re the most alike. So seven years together — it made sense that something would have happened… It seemed like it was worth trying, and I thought it paid off.”
Ritu Arya and Aidan Gallagher, who respectively play Lila and Five, also weigh in on the relationship that bloomed between their characters (after getting a quick dance break out of their systems, which you’ll see at the start of our video Q&A; very Hargreeves of them!).
“They’ve spent seven years together? Away from life, just them two? I’m sorry, but you’re going to feel incredibly connected with someone, no matter what,” Arya adds. “I feel like, of course there’s love there.”
Press PLAY on the video above to get more thoughts from Blackman, Arya and Gallagher, then hit the comments and tell us: How did you feel about Five and Lila’s romantic storyline? (And if you’re craving more Umbrella Academy final-season coverage, be sure to check out our series finale post mortem with Blackman, and hear him explain why [Spoiler] never showed up in Season 4.)
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