Penn Badgley on why he threw no sex scenes rule out the window for You Season 5

Let’s get physical. Penn Badgley made headlines in 2023 when the “Gossip Girl” alum, 38, spoke out against sex scenes and revealed he’d asked the “You” creators to cut back on them. However, in the fifth and final season, which is now streaming, his character, Joe Goldberg, steams up the screen several times. “I had to throw that out the window,” Badgley told People in an interview published Thursday. Badgley explained, “That was the question again.All right, what am I willing to do? And as I always said, I said, my desire is that least as possible, but if it’s necessary, that’s the show we all sign up to make.

So, let’s make sure it’s vital, let’s make sure it’s important, it’s deliberate.And we did.”The Netflix thriller “You” follows Goldberg, a man who thinks of himself as a bookish and sensitive romantic, but he’s really a killer. In the fifth and final season – spoiler alert – he has an affair with a bookish woman named Bronte (Madeline Brewer).

She ultimately helps bring about his downfall after the two have several steamy bedroom intervals.In 2023 when “You” Season 4 was airing, Badgley said on the Podcrushed podcast, “I asked Sera Gamble, [the] creator, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’” He added, “This was actually a decision I had made before I took the show.I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things is, ‘Do I want to put myself back on a career path where I’m always [the] romantic lead?’”Badgley married his wife, Domino Kirke, 41, in 2017.

The singer is the sister of “Girls” star Jemima Kirke, 39, and actress Lola Kirke, 34.Badgley is the stepfather of Domino’s son Cassius, 16, who is from a previous relationship.Badgley and Kirke also have a son named James, 4, and she’s currently pregnant with twins, due in the summer.“Fidelity in every relationship, and especially my marriage, is really important to me.

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