It’s been two years since everyone’s favorite fascist-killing firebrand Becky joined the CIA. When we catch up with her in The Last Temptation of Becky, she’s still struggling with those pesky anger management issues, once again landing in hot water after losing her temper and leaving another bad guy dead in her wake. With her future at the agency hanging by a thread, she’s given one last chance to prove she can follow orders.
After a festival run the film hits theaters November 4th.
While Lulu Wilson once again slips effortlessly into Becky’s blood-soaked tennis shoes, she’s joined this time by writer-director Jenn Wexler (The Ranger), who takes the franchise in an exciting new direction. Wexler delivers a sequel that works equally well as a satisfying conclusion to Becky’s story or the launching point for an entirely new chapter. Wilson, meanwhile, continues to make Becky feel like one of horror’s most distinctive modern antiheroes, balancing the character’s gleeful brutality with just enough vulnerability to remind us she’s still fighting to hold onto her humanity.
I sat down with Wexler and Wilson when the film originally premiered to discuss joining the franchise, evolving Becky across three films, turning the series into something that occasionally resembles a slasher, and where they’d like to see everyone’s favorite Nazi hunter go next.
Dan Tabor: It’s great to meet you both. I’m a big fan of the Becky films, so I’ve been looking forward to this. Honestly, I feel like we need these movies now more than ever.
Jenn Wexler: (Laughs.)
Dan Tabor: Jenn, let’s start with you. What drew you to the project, and what was the biggest adjustment in stepping into an established franchise after making more standalone films?
Jenn Wexler: I was already a fan of the first movie when it came out in 2020. I’m a sucker for stories about young women who have to use their wits to survive and fight back.
One of my friends, Chad Harbold, who’s produced a couple of my films, is also a producer on the Becky movies. He knew my work on The Ranger and The Sacrifice Game and thought I’d be a good fit for the third film. He put my name forward, I jumped at the opportunity, met with Lulu, and we hit it off immediately. I was like, “Yes, let’s go kill some Nazis.”
Dan Tabor: Lulu, you’ve been living with Becky for nearly six years now. At this point, you probably know her better than anyone. What was it like collaborating with Jenn as you figured out where Becky is emotionally at this stage in her life?
Lulu Wilson: I think you said it perfectly—I know Becky like the back of my hand. Across all three films it’s always been collaborative, talking through where she is emotionally, where she’s headed, and what her journey should be.
For this movie especially, I wanted to make sure she still had heart. I’ve been saying this since the first film, but Becky could very easily become unlikeable. She started out as an angsty teenager, but now she’s someone who’s deeply traumatized and has lived an absolutely insane life for someone her age.
It was important that audiences understood why she makes the choices she does—why she goes AWOL and commits these acts of violence. She’s not evil. She’s trying to find answers, and she’s doing it on her own terms.
Dan Tabor: The first film is essentially a home invasion thriller. The second leans into revenge action. This one almost plays like a slasher, except Becky occupies the role that’s usually reserved for the unstoppable killer—which I absolutely loved. Was that evolution intentional?
Jenn Wexler: We definitely had international spy thrillers in mind, but I love hearing you describe it as a slasher because… that’s kind of true.
There are so many moments where, in a traditional slasher, you’d be following the killer as they stalk their victims. Here, you’re following Becky.
Dan Tabor: Exactly—and you like her a whole lot more.
Jenn Wexler: (Laughs.) Exactly. She still has a moral compass.
Dan Tabor: Jenn, I loved that the film finally circles back to the mysterious key from the first movie. Thank you for bringing that MacGuffin back. What inspired revisiting it? Feel free to get into spoilers.
Jenn Wexler: Major spoiler warning.
First, I have to give full credit to Matt Angel, who wrote the script. I came in and did a production pass, but that climax—including the sequence you’re talking about—was already there, and it’s what made me fall in love with the script.
As a fan of the first two movies myself, I also wanted to know what the key unlocked. I’d been waiting just like everyone else.
Lulu Wilson: I remember filming the first movie and the directors telling me, “You’re never going to know what the key is. Nobody will.”
I was thirteen and thinking, “You can’t do this to people!” There were entire Reddit threads trying to figure it out.
So I’m thrilled we finally answered that question. And I honestly don’t think audiences will see where it goes. Whatever expectations they have, this movie blows right past them.
Dan Tabor: It definitely did for me.
Dan Tabor: One of my favorite recurring elements in these films is watching comedians gleefully play villains. Neil Patrick Harris feels like someone who could finally match Becky in that tradition. What made him the right choice, and what surprised you about his performance?
Lulu Wilson: Across all three Becky movies, I’ve had the same experience with comedians. They’re the sweetest, nicest people imaginable—until the camera starts rolling. Then they’re terrifying.
Neil was perfect. He’s genuinely scary. The first thing I thought of was his performance as Count Olaf. If he could make that character so unsettling, I knew he could absolutely pull off playing a Nazi.
He’s incredibly theatrical and completely committed. He wasn’t method or anything, but right before the cameras rolled you could literally watch him slip into character. It was fascinating to see someone who’s so funny in real life become so menacing.
Jenn Wexler: He’s scary, but he’s also charismatic. You understand why people would follow him.
In my head, all of his followers were just losers hanging around manosphere forums before deciding, “Yeah, let’s go to Poland,” and suddenly finding themselves in way over their heads.
When we cast those characters, we were specifically looking for guys who needed to wear a Nazi uniform to convince themselves they were important because they’d spent twenty years living in their mom’s basement.
Dan Tabor:I also loved that the film constantly reminds us most of these guys are Americans.
Dan Tabor: Finally, while The Last Temptation of Becky feels like a fitting culmination of Becky’s journey so far, the ending also leaves the door wide open for more adventures. What would it take to bring you back, and is there somewhere you’d still like to see Becky go?
Lulu Wilson: Honestly, I think there could be another five Becky movies. The audience is always going to be there, and there are endless places she could go.
In my head, the next one is a Western where she’s riding a horse and killing people with her spurs.
Or… Becky in space.
Jenn Wexler: Becky infiltrates NASA.
Lulu Wilson: Exactly!
Jenn Wexler: Nazis on the moon.
Lulu Wilson: You never know where they’ll show up.
But seriously, Becky can go anywhere. She’s Becky. She’s never really gone.
Jenn Wexler: As long as Nazis are around, we need Becky fighting them.
Dan Tabor: Very true. Thank you both so much for taking the time to chat with me, and congratulations on the film. I can’t wait to see where Becky goes next.
