Penn Badgleymade a special request ahead offilming season 4ofYou.The 36-year-old actor shared on the latest episode of Stitcher Studios’Podcrushedpodcast that he askedYou’s showrunnerto limit his sex scenes inthe upcoming seasonof the Netflix psychological thriller.“I asked Sera Gamble, [the] creator, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’ 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, whomarried Domino Kirkein February 2017, added: “Fidelity in every relationship — especially in a marriage — is important to me.“He continued, “It got to a point where [I thought], ‘I don’t want to do that,’ so I said to Sera, like, ‘My desire would be zero [intimate scenes], to go from 100 to zero.'“Penn Badgley.Slaven Vlasic/GettyThat said, Badgley realized his request might not be possible and that “I signed this contract. I signed up for the show. I know what I did.“He added, “You can’t take this aspect out of the DNA of the concept, so ‘How much less can you make it?’ was my question to them.“To Badgley’s relief, Gamble “didn’t even bat an eye. She was really glad that I was that honest, and she was sort of almost empowered. She had a really positive response and they came back with a phenomenal reduction.“Courtesy of NetflixTheEasy Astar previously opened up about how welcoming his2-year-old sonwith Kirke, 39, changed his approach to playingYou’sJoe Goldberg— especially when Joe’s “morbid” parenting in season 3 ran counter to Badgley’s own"joyful” transition to life as a parent.“The funny thing is I was curious what my new fatherhood, how that wouldinfluence my experience with Joeand acting with him,” he toldAccessin October 2021. “And sometimes it was almost not helpful because I was having such a light and joyful experience — still am — and Joe is so petrified.““He’s so scared, and of course I can identify with the fear,” he continued, “but he’s just so morbid in his obsessive, sort of like self-preservation, primal instinct that sometimes I almost found it harder as a result, you know what I mean? It really depended on the scene.“JOHN P. FLEENOR/NETFLIXNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.The first half ofYou’s fourth season is streaming now on Netflix; the remaining episodes will drop on March 9.
Penn Badgleymade a special request ahead offilming season 4ofYou.
The 36-year-old actor shared on the latest episode of Stitcher Studios’Podcrushedpodcast that he askedYou’s showrunnerto limit his sex scenes inthe upcoming seasonof the Netflix psychological thriller.
“I asked Sera Gamble, [the] creator, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’ 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, whomarried Domino Kirkein February 2017, added: “Fidelity in every relationship — especially in a marriage — is important to me.”
He continued, “It got to a point where [I thought], ‘I don’t want to do that,’ so I said to Sera, like, ‘My desire would be zero [intimate scenes], to go from 100 to zero.'”
Penn Badgley.Slaven Vlasic/Getty
That said, Badgley realized his request might not be possible and that “I signed this contract. I signed up for the show. I know what I did.”
He added, “You can’t take this aspect out of the DNA of the concept, so ‘How much less can you make it?’ was my question to them.”
To Badgley’s relief, Gamble “didn’t even bat an eye. She was really glad that I was that honest, and she was sort of almost empowered. She had a really positive response and they came back with a phenomenal reduction.”
Courtesy of Netflix
TheEasy Astar previously opened up about how welcoming his2-year-old sonwith Kirke, 39, changed his approach to playingYou’sJoe Goldberg— especially when Joe’s “morbid” parenting in season 3 ran counter to Badgley’s own"joyful” transition to life as a parent.
“The funny thing is I was curious what my new fatherhood, how that wouldinfluence my experience with Joeand acting with him,” he toldAccessin October 2021. “And sometimes it was almost not helpful because I was having such a light and joyful experience — still am — and Joe is so petrified.”
“He’s so scared, and of course I can identify with the fear,” he continued, “but he’s just so morbid in his obsessive, sort of like self-preservation, primal instinct that sometimes I almost found it harder as a result, you know what I mean? It really depended on the scene.”
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The first half ofYou’s fourth season is streaming now on Netflix; the remaining episodes will drop on March 9.
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