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During a recent conversation with his costar Meghann Fahy<\/a> on the latest episode of his Podcrushed podcast, the You star admitted he was \u201cconsumed\u201d with losing weight for his role as dentist Nicholas Rose<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt did happen very fast,\u201d Badgley said of joining the film, adapted from Sarah Hogle\u2019s bestselling book. \u201cI signed on right before we had to go [shoot the movie]. I was mostly consumed with losing enough weight, so it just made sense for how maniacal this guy was supposed to be about his body.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cThe way he is written on the page is truly, like, I should have had a shredded eight-pack. I should have had a Marvel body. And I had a real-life good body, you know what I\u2019m saying? There\u2019s a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n You…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penn Badgley is opening up about the physical transformation he underwent for his role in You Deserve Each Other. During a recent conversation with his costar Meghann Fahy on the latest episode of his Podcrushed podcast, the You star admitted he was \u201cconsumed\u201d with losing weight for his role as dentist Nicholas Rose. \u201cIt did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2257228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Why-Penn-Badgley-Was-Consumed-With-Losing-Enough-Weight-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257230,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257228\/revisions\/2257230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}