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Penn Badgley got candid about what it takes to make a sex scene come to life onscreen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
He detailed the reality of filming an intimate scene in a new first-person essay, where he recalled, in detail, the process of filming a scene for You<\/em> season 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n For the scene, he recalled he was “humping the air with the camera in my face, but I\u2019m going to be looking straight down the barrel of the lens, something I reflexively never do”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Penn Badgley<\/a> is peeling back the curtain on what it’s really like to film a sex scene.<\/p>\n In excerpt from Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age<\/em><\/a>, which was published by\u00a0 Vulture<\/em><\/a>, the 38-year-old actor took a deep dive into a particular memory from filming a scene in You<\/em><\/a> season 3, which he described as a “fantasy sequence” where his character, Joe Goldberg, is “meant to be humpin\u2019 on his wife, with whom he has become not only bored but also contemptuous.” In the scene, he recalled, the director “has chosen to place the camera directly in front of my face.”<\/p>\n In the moment, Joe is supposed to be imagining the librarian he’s crushing on (Tati Gabrielle) instead of his wife (Victoria Pedretti<\/a>).<\/p>\n “What this means for me, practically speaking, is that the director wants a close-up of my face as my character Joe is deep in dissociative reverie mid-coitus,” Badgley wrote.<\/p>\n