Ahead of the release of his upcoming romantic comedy film, Penn Badgley has opened up about his full-body transformation.
You Deserve Each Other, which Penn stars in alongside Meghann Fahy, is based on the book of the same name by Sarah Hogle. It follows an out-of-love engaged couple who repeatedly prank each other in an attempt to get the wedding called off.
Penn Badgley wanted to lose “enough weight” before his role in You Deserve Each Other
Speaking on Podcrushed on January 29, Penn explained he didn’t have much time to prepare for the role. Or the body transformation it required.
“It happened very fast, like, I signed on right before we had to go [shoot the movie],” he said. “I was actually mostly consumed with losing enough weight. So it just made sense how maniacal this guy was supposed to be about his body.”
“The way he is written on the page is truly, like, I should have had a shredded eight-pack,” Penn said of his character, Dr Nicholas Rose. “I should have had a Marvel body, and I had, like, a real-life good body, you know what I’m saying? There’s a difference.”
Penn continued on to say he’s “never had to lose weight” and “get ripped” for a role in his career thus far. As a result, he found it ironic that he needed to do so for a “f*cking comedy, of course.”
That said, the actor – who is the star of Netflix’s thriller, YOU – revealed he was pleased to finally work on something lighter. “It was a relief to not do something that was at all heavy,” he admitted. “It was so much fun the entire time.”
The countdown is on to see Penn’s transformation in the film…
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