Penn Badgley Asked ‘You’ to Have Less Sex Scenes Because of His Wife

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The ultimate romantic! Penn Badgley, 36, protagonist of the series “You” (Netflix) told about the backstage of the production and said that he spoke with the producers asking him to film less sex scenes. The reason? In order not to disturb the relationship with Domino Fike, with whom he has been married since 2017.

In addition to the relationship, the actor explains that he does not want to be branded as a heartthrob when playing hunter Joe Goldberg. “It’s really important to me, faithfulness in every relationship, and especially in my marriage, it’s important to me, and it got to the point where I didn’t want to do that,” he said in a guest appearance on the Podcrushed podcast. He also explained that he had been thinking about the issue since he started filming the series four years ago.

“This is actually a decision I made before I joined the show,” Badgley said. “I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things is, ‘Do I want to put myself back into a career where I’m always a romantic lead?'”

“I signed this contract. I signed up for this show. I know what I did. You can’t take that DNA aspect out of the concept of it. So my question to the producers was how much less of the sex scenes could they have,” he stated. , surprised by the positive response.

“Sera didn’t even blink. She was so happy that I was so honest. She felt almost empowered. They came back with a phenomenal reduction of scenes,” he added.

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