Penn Badgley Thinks People Being In Love With Serial Killers Is So Weird
What could have possibly caused this?
Penn Badgley, famously the star of a show about a romantic serial killer, is at a goddamn loss as to why people are romanticising serial killers.
“What is your message to the people who are finding themselves attracted to serial killers?” a disembodied interviewer asks of Badgley in an Entertainment Tonight interview posted on TikTok.
“You need to look at that, inside,” Badgley said, despite, famously, playing old-school romantic and serial killer Joe Goldberg in You for half a decade.
“Now, to be fair, with our show, you’re meant to fall in love with him. That’s on us. Ted Bundy? That’s on you! Jeffrey Dahmer, that is on Netflix. That is squarely on the shoulders of Netflix.”
“I don’t have answers at this point,” Badgley conceded. “I do, but they’re long. Yeah, it’s weird man.”
Dude, it’s so weird. It’s so weird that a TV show that puts a known hot guy from Gossip Girl as its lead and showcases his journey and internal monologue — including how he rationalises murdering multiple women — would lead to people romanticising serial killers. It’s a crazy world, you guys, and Badgley is just living in it.
Interestingly, in previous years the actor has admonished viewers for romanticising his character. Replying to fans who said they’d happily be locked in Joe’s murder cage, Badgley responded: “You’re supposed to see past my face TO the crazy shit!”
Could it be possible that Badgley, too, bears some responsibility for all of this?!? We couldn’t possibly comment.