Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg has had his share of romantic obsessions, from Elizabeth Lail’s Guinevere to Victoria Pedretti’s Love Quinn. However when new episodes of You season 4 hit Netflix this week, his character—now going by the alias “Jonathan Moore”—will probably be getting much less scorching and heavy with the ladies in his internet.
That’s on the request of Badgley himself, he just lately revealed in a bonus episode of his podcast Podcrushed. “I requested Sera Gamble, the creator, ‘Can I simply do no extra intimacy scenes?’” the previous Gossip Lady actor defined. “That is truly a call I had made earlier than I took the present [in 2018]. I don’t assume I had ever talked about it publicly, however one of many foremost issues is like, do I need to put myself again in a profession path the place I’m simply at all times a romantic lead?”
One other consider Badgley’s resolution was his five-year marriage to Domino Kirke, with whom he shares a son, James. “Constancy, in each relationship, and particularly my marriage, is vital to me,” he continued. “And it simply obtained to that time the place I don’t need to try this.” Gamble “didn’t even bat a watch” at his request, Badgley mentioned. “She was very glad that I used to be that sincere. She had a extremely optimistic response. They got here again with an exceptional discount.”
Badgley did, nevertheless, perceive that to de-escalate Joe’s sexual urge for food “from 100 to zero” could be disingenuous. On this season, the character flees his suburban life in California for a recent begin in London, the place he’s working as a writing professor and getting cozy with a bunch of rich British socialites being terrorized by a mysterious killer. And—shock, shock—Joe’s lust ultimately comes into play. “I signed this contract, I signed up for this present, I do know what I did,” Badgley concluded. “You’ll be able to’t take this side out of the DNA of the idea.”
