YOU: Penn Badgley on the ‘Social Experiment’ of Potential Fan Reactions

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YOU’s Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is being called the “ultimate romantic,” but his portrayer isn’t as sympathetic to Joe’s obsessive ways as some viewers may be.

“Somehow, I seem to be more troubled by it,” Badgley said during the show’s Television Critics Association panel. “I don’t want to speak for anyone else, but I know that throughout I felt as though maybe I was the most troubled, which is why [executive producers] Greg [Berlanti] and Sera [Gamble] insisted that I was the right guy for the role.”

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