Penn Badgley jacks off weird, according to You directors
You star Penn Badgley confirmed that his masturbation scenes rub people the wrong way on set
Is there a wrong way to rub one out? If you’re television star Penn Badgley, who plays the murderous masturbator Joe Goldberg on Netflix’s satirical thriller, You, there is. Speaking to the Podcrushed podcast (via Variety), Badgley said that he gets noted to death about his on-camera stroke style, which his directors think he needs to be “less creepy.”
Of course, we’re talking about a blood-thirsty killer whose narcissistic ramblings make up the show’s perspective, relying on the viewer to infer that what’s happening is sick, sad, and wrong. Nevertheless, Badgley, who plays a monster known for, among other things, trapping women in a big glass box and pissing in jars and leaving them around his victims’ homes, says that obviously, that’s “the fucking point.” Still, directors would like his masturbating outside of some unsuspecting woman’s window to be slightly less creepy.
