"You" Star Penn Badgley says he will no longer do sex scenes in his career

The actor asked that none be written in the current season of his successful Netflix program.


Netflix emission fans You Note that something is different when they broadcast the new season. The first half of season 4 of the Thriller series made its debut on February 9, and You star Penn Badgley talked about new episodes with his co-hosts Nava Kavelin And Sophie Ansari On their podcast Cousin . He revealed that he no longer wanted to make "intimacy scenes" as an actor and shared what happened when he approached the creator of the series Séra Pari About his request. Read the rest to know why Gossip Girl The alum has on the set of sex scenes and why he decided to refuse them from now on.

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Badgley made this decision before You even created.

Penn Badgley at 2018 PaleyFest
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Before playing You , Badgley was best known for playing Gossip Girl Like Dan Humphrey and had also been in the movies Easy And John Tucker must die . On Cousin , the 36 -year -old actor shared this prerequisite be cast on You , he had already decided that he no longer wanted to make sex scenes.

"I asked will be gamble I can no longer do any intimacy scenes," he said about their recent conversation. "This is actually a decision that I made before taking the show. I don't think I never mentioned it publicly. One of the main things was, I want to get back on a career path where I still play the role of romantic leader? "

Her marriage played a role.

Domino Kirke and Penn Badgley at the launch of
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Badgley explained that his marriage is one of the reasons why he no longer feels comfortable to make sex scenes. The actor married singing Domino Kirke In 2017, and they welcomed a child together in 2020.

"Loyalty in each relationship, and especially my marriage, is important for me," said Badgley. "It happened to the point where I don't want to do that. Of course, before taking the show, there was the question, do I have a career if I don't do it. Think about every male role you have Aimé: Do they kiss someone? Do they do much more than that? "

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He asked to go from "100 to zero" with regard to sex scenes.

Penn Badgley in
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You Talk about a man named Joe Goldberg, who develops dangerous and often fatal obsessions with women. He almost always finds himself in relationships with them, successfully hiding that he has tracked them down, which means that the intimate scenes have been part of the work for Badgley so far.

Badgley said speaking to Gamble: "I said to be:" My desire would be zero. Going from 100 to zero. "But I signed this contract. I signed up for this show. I know what I did. You cannot withdraw this aspect of the DNA of the concept. So, how less can you do it, was my question for them. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

He continued: "She didn't even beat an eye. She was really happy to be so honest. She was somehow, I mean almost autonomized. She had a really positive answer. She appreciated my franchise And she appreciated this I was also reasonable and practical. They returned with a phenomenal reduction. "

You Season 4 is more than sex and love.

The conversation on the reduction of sex scenes appeared when Cousin The hosts discussed how season 4 is less concentrated than previous seasons on love and romance.

"I think it's more a class question, isn't it? And it's a question of wealth and it's a little more privilege," said Badgley about the new episodes. Season 4 also takes place in England rather than in the United States.

He recalled a particularly clumsy sex scene.

Penn Badgley at SiriusXM Studios in 2020
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In An episode of November 2022 of Cousin , The co-animators of Badlgey asked him to share an embarrassing moment of set. He spoke of the sexual scene that he had to film alone, due to the position of the camera.

"I have done on how clumsy and vulnerable intimacy scenes can be and in fact many other scenes," he said. "I had a scene. It was like a fantastic scene of season 3. where Joe, he has dream sex - it is difficult to restrict him. But, the way they wanted to shoot it, the camera was so tight and close. " He explained that because the camera was so close to him, he did not film the scene with his co-star, but only as if the other character was also there.

"In my underwear on a bed in a false room in front of probably 12 people or something like that - then know that it will be seen by millions of people - I had to work, because I simmered the real sex with a person ," he said. The actor added: "It was a strange feeling. You can imagine."


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