True or false? He was named after a tennis ball. He actually hates TikTok. He was conflicted about his role in "You."
This is the truth about Penn Badgley.
This is the truth about Penn Badgley.
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00:00I don't spend time scrolling. I don't really have a for you page.
00:09That is true. My dad was gripping a pen tennis ball and my mom
00:14said he's about the size of that tennis ball and that is that is the end of that story.
00:18That is about how it went.
00:23I didn't get it before and now that I'm on it, I think I get it. I don't like being on TikTok.
00:29As a viewer, but I do like getting on there and having some fun.
00:36Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I definitely was. And I still am. Well, I'm not conflicted still,
00:41but I was I was conflicted enough that I really wasn't sure if I wanted to do it.
00:44If I was just playing him for the length of a film, for instance, that would be
00:49manageable. You know, that's like three months, maybe something like that.
00:52Took the role five years ago, almost. So it's just a long time to be with one character and
00:58a character who is such an unreliable narrator and ultimately, you know, a predator and somebody
01:04who is a really dangerous manipulator because he doesn't even realize how much he's doing it a lot
01:09of times. It's true. Do I sit down and put her record on like I'm not quite at that level. I'm
01:17not I'm not part of the Bardi gang, for instance, but I really I respect her and admire what she's
01:22doing. We're sort of friends. It's actually true because you can't ultimately never feel a
01:32connection with your character. But at the time when I was playing Dan, I think I struggled to
01:35connect with him. I really didn't. I resisted him as as one does in your early 20s. You resist a lot
01:41of things you're a part of being on a show like Gossip Girl when you're when you're 20 years old
01:46and then it not coming to a close until I was nearly 26, you know, and the whole thing,
01:52making us all famous and that kind of stuff is just a phenomenal experience in every way. It
01:57was good, bad and everything in between. I think maybe what I've learned is how hard it is to keep
02:03the craft of acting pure when you're being when you're becoming famous for it, actually,
02:07it's quite challenging. That's true. I started doing voiceovers and radio and like animation
02:15and stuff. Mario Tennis 64. I think tennis and golf. There are people who played this game.
02:21I think it's a fairly popular game or it was. I've never played it.
02:28It's not true. I didn't write it. I sang one. I recorded one, but I didn't write it. Yeah,
02:33I sing and play guitar and piano. I've just always been working as an actor and it's never
02:37really for for a brief period. I had a band and a record and we toured.
02:44I love soccer. In fact, being in England was great because I because I it was just I was
02:50just able to talk about it differently. Did you watch the final of the World Cup? And
02:55who were you rooting for? I think at this point, most of the world was rooting for
02:59Argentina simply simply because of Messi. And it seemed like the fairy tale ending that
03:06no one no one thought was possible for me. Watching Messi win was it was just sort of like.
03:16Is this real now? And that said, France has been always one of my favorite teams.
03:20I love the way they play. Of course, Mbappe is incredible. Thierry Henry used to be one
03:25of my favorite players. That was when I really started watching when he was on Arsenal.