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Despite his efforts so as not to romantize his You The character Joe Goldberg, Penn Badgley gave the controversial character a hot ship.
After being frank of his decision not to make sex scenes for the Netflix series, the actor explained that he “had to throw him out of the window” for the fifth and last season, which is now available to broadcast.
“It was the question again. Very well, what am I ready to do? ” He said People Of his discussions with the creative team of the show. “And as I always said, I said, my desire is as little as possible, but if necessary, it is the spectacle that we are all signing.
Badgley explained that for the spectacle to reach an appropriate conclusion, they “really had to train” with its advance considered as “a romantic icon”, disarming its victims with its charm.
The actor previously told Deadline that the show had become “a meta exercise: why are we so obsessed with this man?”
Madeline Brewer and Penn Badgley in “You” (Clifton Prescod / Netflix / Courtoisie Everett Collection)
“Besides the superficial reasons, what is a protagonist like this one work? And I think we deliver; it is a real deconstruction of Joe,” he said.
“It is actually there that he does his worst work, it is his manipulation and his seduction,” added Badgley. “The box is rather obvious, the box is actually where it will put anyone, but it only puts women in the room, this is where its most dangerous work is. And it was important for him to be seen, finally, as a sexual predator.”
After the first two seasons of You Presented Joe in many scorching situations, Badgley revealed in 2023 that he had asked the showrunner will be a gamble for “no more intimacy scenes”, explaining that he did not want to be typical as “the romantic lead”, also quoting Fidelity in his marriage as an important factor.
