'You' star Penn Badgley calls out Hollywood sex scenes: 'Very disturbing'

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Penn Badgley is once again criticizing the heavy use of sex scenes in his hit show, "You." This time, he takes his comments a step further, saying those kinds of scenes are "disturbing" to film. "It’s not a place where I’ve blurred lines," he said in a new interview with Variety. "There’s almost nothing I could say with more consecration.That aspect of Hollywood has always been very disturbing to me — and that aspect of the job, that mercurial boundary — has always been something that I actually don’t want to play with at all." Another issue Badgley, 36, has with intimate scenes is the fact that, at this point in his career, he's usually older than the actresses he films them with, which "didn't used to be the case." He stressed, "It’s important to me in my real life to not have them." When asked for clarification he responded, "My fidelity in my relationship.

It’s important to me. And actually, it was one of the reasons that I initially wanted to turn the role down. I didn’t tell anybody that.

But that is why." Badgley's wife, singer and doula Domino Kirke, "encouraged" him to take the role and as he put it, "I wasn’t going to listen to anyone more than her." The popular Netflix show premiered the first half of its fourth season last week.

While the show's creator, Sera Gamble, was discussing Badgley's character's storyline, he took the opportunity to discuss his concerns.  "I told her kind of my desire, and she immediately was accepting and responsive," he said. "I’m always very practical.