has had his share of romantic obsessions, from s Guinevere Beck to ’s Love Quinn. But in the new episodes of You season four that hit Netflix this week, his character—now going by the alias “Jonathan Moore”—will be getting less hot and heavy with the women in his web.
That’s at the request of Badgley himself, he recently revealed in a of his podcast, Podcrushed. “I asked , ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’” the former Gossip Girl actor explained. “This is actually a decision I had made before I took [in 2018].
I don’t think I had ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things is like, do I want to put myself back in a career path where I’m just always a romantic lead?”Penn Badgley as Joe, Charlotte Ritchie as Kate in season 4 of You.
Another factor in Badgley’s decision was his five-year marriage to Domino Kirke, with whom he shares a son, James. “Fidelity, in every relationship, and especially my marriage, is important to me,” he continued. “And it just got to that point where I don’t want to do that.” Gamble “didn’t even bat an eye” at his request, Badgley said. “She was very glad that I was that honest.
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