You: Penn Badgley received ‘alert’ from production to make sex scenes ‘less bizarre’

Penn Badgley did an amazing job playing the killer Joe in the series of Netflix, you (2018). The interpretation was so realistic that the production warned the actor to make the sex scenes in a not-so-bizarre way. Nonetheless, badgley disagreed with the comments, claiming that being “bizarre” was exactly the character’s point.

“Every time I did a masturbation scene… I always got a warning to make it less bizarre,” he said on the podcast. podcrushed. “They would say, ‘close your eyes and do it faster or slower.’ And I was like, ‘What? This man is killing people and masturbating in the street. Are you saying I’m being too bizarre? How am I making this scary?’”

In you, badgley lives a man who is obsessed with the women he has a relationship with and goes to great lengths to stay with them, murdering anyone who gets in his way. Despite being married to Love (Victoria Pedretti) in season three, there are still scenes where he masturbates in public places thinking about or seeing other women.

“I remember I didn’t close my eyes and the director came up to me and said, ‘Man, I think you should close your eyes.’ […] That was just the weird line we were always trying to follow in our show. Examining toxicity in sexual culture while also trying to be sexy,” he said.

You: season 4

Filming the fourth season of you started in March 2022 and the Netflix announced that the series will gain a new protagonist. According to the Variety (via Estadão), Charlotte Ritchie it will be Kate, described as independent, intelligent and loyal. She is the director of an art gallery and has worked hard to succeed in her career. At first, Kate don’t like Joein addition to suspecting that he is hiding something.

For now, the new episodes of you no confirmed release date. The third season arrived on streaming in late 2021 and represented the concluding chapter of the story of Joe and Love (Victoria Pedretti). All episodes are available on Netflix.