‘You’ Star Penn Badgley Says He No Longer Wants to Film These Types of Scenes on His Show

“I asked Sera Gamble can I just do no more intimacy scenes,” he said on the pod. “This is actually a decision I made before I took the show. I don’t think I have ever mentioned it publicly. One of the main things was, do I want to put myself back on a career path where I’m always playing the romantic lead?”

The idea of Joe having no intimate scenes in the show might be a hard concept for fans to wrap their heads around, simply because the whole show revolves around Joe’s love life, and his (too many to count) failed relationships.

Badgley also revealed that he had a personal reason for why he no longer wanted to film those sex scenes: his relationship with his wife. 

“Fidelity in every relationship, including my marriage, is important to me,” Badgley continued. “It’s got to the point where I don’t want to do that. So I said to Sera, ‘My desire would be zero, to go from 100 to zero.’ But, I signed this contract. I signed up for this show. I know what I did.”