Penn Badgley Explains Why He Asked for Less Intimacy Scenes in Season 4 of ‘You’: ‘Fidelity’ in My Marriage ‘Is Really Important to Me’

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Putting his marriage first. Penn Badgley will no longer film any intimacy scenes for Netflix’s You.“I asked [the creator of the show] Sera Gamble, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?'” Badgley, 36, revealed in an episode of his “Podcrushed” podcast, which was posted on Thursday, February 9. “This is actually a decision I’d made before I took the show.”The actor explained that his marriage to Domino Kirke inspired the career choice. “I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things was, like, do I want to put myself back on a career path where I’m just always the romantic lead?” he continued. “Fidelity in every relationship, and especially my marriage, is really important to me.”Badgley continued: “It just got to a point where I don’t want to do that.

Before I took the show, it was a question, ‘Do I have a career if I don’t?’ Think about every male lead you’ve loved. Are they kissing someone?

Are they doing a lot more than that?”In season 4 of the hit Netflix series, which premiered on Thursday, Joe (Badgley) relocates to London to begin a new life as college professor Jonathan Moore.

He quickly falls in love with neighbor Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) — but the pair don’t act on their attraction for each other.“I said to Sera, ‘My desire would be zero, to go from 100 to zero,’” the Gossip Girl alum said on his podcast. “But I signed this contract, I signed up for this show, I know what I did.