Penn Badgley in 2018

Penn Badgley has admitted he let down one of his personal boundaries before filming the final season of You.

Back in 2023, the former Gossip Girl star made headlines when he revealed he is so uncomfortable shooting sex scenes that he’d asked the team behind You to reduce his character’s intimate moments.

“Fidelity in my – in every relationship, and especially my marriage – is important to me,” he said on his podcast Podcrushed.

“And yeah, it just got to a point where I don’t want to do [sex scenes].”

Revealing that “zero” sex scenes would be his preference, he added: “You can’t take [that] aspect out of the DNA of [the show], so ‘how much less can you make it?’ was my question.”

Penn later

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