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Penn Badgley’s exceptional performance in Netflix’sYouwill make any fan fall in love with a demented serial killer. Badgley’s series will return for a fifth and final season in late 2024. Playing a terrible character in the series, Badgley was often disgusted by the scenes he had to film. OneSeason 4scene particularly made him nauseous when he was asked to redo it.
You, based on Caroline Kepnes’s novel series of the same name, has built a separate fan base ever since it debuted on Lifetime in 2018. Netflix took up the series from its second season onwards. The fourth season was released in two parts in 2023 and received critical acclaim.
Penn Badgley’sYou Season 4Scene Made Him Physically Sick
InYou Season 4,Penn Badgleyreturns in a new avatar of his serial killer character, posing as Jonathan Moore. In the fourth season, Badgley befriends a group of wealthy socialites, who begin to die one by one when a serial killer hunts them.
Badgley’s hunter becomes the prey as the killer blackmails him about revealing his true identity. The season got morebloody and graphicthan the previous seasons. Badgley appeared onLate Night with Seth Meyersto promote the season last year and opened up about dealing with the gory scenes.
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When Seth Meyers asked him whether there were moments in the series where he had to take a minute, Badgley recalled his experience from the latest season. He shared that there have been instances when he had become nauseous while filming a scene.
In the fourth season, he had to film a few pick-up scenes when he couldn’t finish the scenes on time. Unfortunately for Badgley, one of the pick-up scenes involved him covered in blood in a gory set.
Badgley explained that he was sprayed down with blood and he then entered a room designed for a graphic scene. The smoky room had a table with dark fake blood all over it and a saw with meat on it for special effects.Badgley’s disgustwas visible on his face as he narrated the setting. He shared withMeyers:
There have been a few times where I’ve spontaneously become nauseous, like just in this last season. I [strapped] on this jumpsuit and then they sprayed me down with blood fully. I have goggles on and then I walk into this room they’ve created to make it look like the place we were in and it’s full of smoke and dark fake blood all over the table and a table saw with meat on it.
The Gossip Girlactor further added that he let the nausea come through. Badgley’s effort paid off heavily as the season received a 92% score onRotten Tomatoes. Critics cited that it was Penn Badgley’s performance that did the heavy lifting for the season.
Penn Badgley Accidentally Broke Netflix’s Publicity Embargo ForYou Season 4
Penn Badgley also revealed one mistake he made during the promotion ofYou Season 4. He shared withSeth Meyersthat he usually wasn’t the type to post on social media and even refrained from posting about the bigger announcements regarding his Netflix series. However, he shared one promotional image from the series at 9:00 am on the day of its unveiling.
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He shared that he took the image from a Netflix spreadsheet, which he shared made him quite nervous. After posting the image, he went back to the sheet to find out that it wasn’t supposed to go out until noon that day. He quickly deleted the image but went on to explain the accident in a follow-up post.
It is unknown how the streaming platform may have reacted to his accidental mistake. They might have put the mistake behind them as Badgley is all set tocomplete his run as a serial killerlater this year.
Fans can catch all four seasons ofYouon Netflix now.
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Hashim Asraff is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, with over 2,800 articles published on celebrity culture, comic book movies, and major TV franchises. With a background in Sociology and a keen interest in pop culture, Hashim brings a unique lens to breaking news stories, character deep-dives, film rankings, and fan-driven perspectives.His coverage often includes the MCU, DCU, hit network shows, and celebrity profiles, giving readers a rich blend of entertainment and analysis. A longtime fan of crime and investigative series, Hashim has watched thousands of episodes of NCIS, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU, Bones, Blue Bloods, and The RookieA passionate storyteller and wordsmith, Hashim has also worked as a ghostwriter and managed multiple social media handles. He brought his writing expertise to FandomWire to also pursue his lifelong love for cinema and television.
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