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It’s a tough time to be anti-sex scenes. Just ask Penn Badgley, who recently disclosed his refusal to film intimate scenes for the latest season of his Netflix show You and received tons of backlash online. Now, the 36-year-old actor is defending his stance in a new profile for British GQ, claiming his statements were “blown out of proportion.”
“What I was speaking about wasn’t actually the final product,” the Gossip Girl star recently told the magazine. “It was sort of like the culture inherent to the production of all movies but particularly those scenes. It’s like, look, we know that Hollywood has had a history of flagrant exploitation and abuse.”
The controversy began back in February when Badgley revealed on his podcast PodCrushed that he asked You’s creator Sera Gamble not include him in any more sex scenes. In a cover story for Variety, he expanded on his comments, suggesting that filming intimate scenes would compromise his marriage to singer Domino Kirke.