Penn Badgley Reveals You's Disturbing Connection to Gossip Girl
Penn Badgely might be known for playing an outsider, but he shared some insider information.
The You star revealed during a set tour with Architectural Digest that the Netflix thriller series films on the same soundstage where he once filmed Gossip Girl.
"A little bit of an interesting note," Penn, 38, said while in the bookstore basement or "the cage," which is where his serial killer character Joe keeps his victims. "This is where we shot Gossip Girl.”
And the creepy, dark set that the stage is home to now couldn't be more different than what it was home to during the Gossip Girl days.
“This is the same stage where the Waldorf suites or whatever, where they live," he shared, referring to Blair Waldorf's Manhattan penthouse on the show, "It was in this stage.”
And Penn went on to share another surprising fact, adding that the home of his own Gossip Girl character, Dan Humphrey, was once in the stage where the bookstore is now.
"The stage with the bookstore was where the Humphrey loft was," he said, "So this place is extremely familiar to me."
Penn delved more into what has been unique about his two hit shows filming in the exact same place, comparing his current surroundings to when Gossip Girl first started filming in 2007.
"I was just standing outside looking at the trees and I thought, 'I've been looking at these trees for nearly 20 years now,'" he said. "And I thought to myself, 'Have they grown?'"
Penn added, "So that's just a little window into my brain."
You, which premiered in 2018, aired its series finale on April 24. Leading up to the show’s last run, Penn shared that while no ending will satisfy every viewer, he felt it was important that "justice was served."
"It's doing everything that could possibly be done in a satisfying manner," he told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published April 24. "I think he's delivered to his truly appropriate end. Then the only thing left is to realize [that] there is no ending that could satisfy anyone 100 percent, because justice for a man like Joe isn't in and of itself satisfying."
He added, "If you were to think of this as a real man and a real story and real victims, the only thing that can truly heal and satisfy is time, as long as justice has been served."
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