Penn Badgley Loves His Wife Too Much to Do Sex Scenes in ‘You’ Season 4

Emma Mackey is saying goodbye to Sex Education after four seasons. While attending the BAFTA Awards where she won the Rising Star award, the Netflix star revealed that she was exiting the series and would not come back for a potential Season 5.

Breaking Bad, describing the part as “the one that got away”.The You star was asked in a new interview with Buzzfeed to name a role fans would be surprised that he auditioned for but didn’t get.“One I got close on was Breaking Bad,” Badgley said. “It was between me and Aaron Paul, we tested.” Paul ended up getting the role of crystal meth cook and dealer Jesse Pinkman in the hit series, which aired for five seasons between 2008 to 2013.Actually, that was the best television script I’d read at that point,” added Badgley.

Had things gone another way, Penn Badgley would have played Jesse Pinkman alongside Bryan Cranston in “Breaking Bad”.

Penn Badgley saying no to sex scenes in YOU Season 4 has gone down well but would an actress have had the same luxury? If you are as eagle-eyed as Joe Goldberg from Netflix’s psychological thriller YOU, you may have noticed the subtle but significant dialling down of raunchier scenes the show was famous for in earlier seasons. It turns out this is because the former Gossip Girl star asked to do as few sex scenes as possible out of respect for his wife Domino Kirke.

Penn Badgley has opened up about the one role that he was almost cast in – Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad.

You star Penn Badgley might have used Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” to introduce himself to TikTok. However, he thinks his character Joe might not be as big a fan of the pop phenom.

You star Penn Badgley has said his character would “probably despise” Taylor Swift.When asked about his first effort at a TikTok video in conversation with Variety, Badgley discussed having set the song to Taylor Swift’s recent single ‘Anti-Hero’.Badgley lip-syncs to the song on TikTok, with the clip having gone viral and Swift commenting “OMG!!!!” on the social media platform.However, the actor said that his character Joe Goldberg “probably despises” Taylor Swift, despite one episode of You containing a reference to the pop icon.“I think, unfortunately, he would despise her,” Badgley said. “Because she’s successful and blonde, maybe? I don’t know, but I think he would.”In a four-star review of You season four part one, NME wrote: “Yes, it’s all very silly, but it’s also surprisingly gripping and consistently witty.”Penn Badgley recently revealed he requested to have no unnecessary sex scenes in the recent season of You, due to his marriage to singer Domino Kirke.Speaking on the podcast Podcrushed, Badgley said: “I asked Sera Gamble, the creator of the show, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’“This was actually a decision I had made before I took the show.

in the fame department after Gossip Girl first premiered in the mid-aughts. Obviously, this was only heightened after tabloids caught wind of his . Stressful as this period was, Badgley said that dating Lively may have saved him from going down a destructive path. Plenty of young stars from this era have been open about dealing with substance abuse (, , , etc.), but Badgley said in an interview with that he never really did.

Creating boundaries. Penn Badgley, Neal McDonough and more stars have candidly discussed their decisions not to film sex scenes in future projects.

While Dan and Serena made it down the aisle on Gossip Girl, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively called it quits long before the 2012 series finale.

Penn Badgley credits his co-star and ex-girlfriend, Blake Lively, with keeping him on the right track as his fame was on the rise.In a new interview with, Badgley opens up about his three-year romance with Lively, who played his character Dan Humphrey's on-screen love interest, Serena van der Woodsen.The pair started dating in real life in 2007 at the start of the teen drama's run.“Beyond our relationship, I don’t think anybody was going to be interested in me publicly,” Badgley says, adding of his overnight fame, “It was a little bit night and day. I think the date was Sept.

Penn Badgley is opening up about his career.

Netflix just dropped the trailer for the final episodes of Season 4 of “You”, and although Joe has attempted to escape his past, he appears to be in the middle of a new murderous mystery.

Netflix is still releasing pretty much everything (outside of some reality shows) in their patented binge model. All of the episodes, all at once.

SPOILER ALERT: Major spoilers ahead for You season 4 part 2!

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “You” Season 4, Part 1. The story’s not over yet for America’s favorite serial killer in London. Netflix dropped the trailer Wednesday for the final episodes of “You” Season 4. When viewers last left the clandestine criminal, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) had just unraveled the identity of a fellow London-based serial killer. Despite avowing to put his days of murder behind him, Joe finds himself at the center of yet another mystery when the members of his posh new friend group start turning up dead. Four bodies have already dropped and there’s no sign of the death count slowing down anytime soon with author-turned-murderer Rhys Montrose (Ed Speleers) on the loose.

“I’m not some cold-blood psycho killer.” To which all fans of Netflix’s You would say, sure Joe, sure.

Penn Badgley is elaborating on the news that he requested to have no more intimate scenes in the fourth season of his Netflix series You.

Penn Badgley is prioritizing fidelity over Hollywood sex scenes.

Penn Badgley isn't holding back when it comes to romanticized portrayals of infamous serial killers on Netflix — even if he plays one.The 36-year-old actor, who plays fictional murderer Joe Goldberg in acknowledged the audience's growing fascination with serial killers amid portrayals of several notorious, real-life killers in TV shows and movies in recent years on the streaming platform.Badgley specifically singled out Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, two serial killers who were given the Netflix treatment in the 2019 Zac Efron film,  and the 2022 Evan Peters series, though he never mentions the projects by name. Peters, for his part, won a Golden Globe for his performance as Jeffrey Dahmer.«You need to look at that, inside,» Badgley said when asked his thoughts on people admitting their attraction toward problematic men. «Now, to be fair, with our show you're meant to fall in love with him.