![]() ![]() It’s been a long road for Badgley to get here. The company has secured funding for him to direct his first film - which he can begin whenever “You” comes to an end - and has optioned the David Sedaris story “Jamboree” to be developed as a feature. The “Podcrushed” TikTok account, too, has become another platform for Badgley to create viral content.Īnd Badgley’s plans for Ninth Mode go beyond podcasting. “We’ve always had a five-season plan for the show,” says Sarah Schechter, the chairwoman of Berlanti Productions and an executive producer on “You.”Īs part of being “fully in,” Badgley’s formed a production company, Ninth Mode Media, which has borne the podcast “Podcrushed.” He hosts it with Kavelin and Sophie Ansari, and their interviews with guests such as Lisa Kudrow, Conan O’Brien, Jenna Ortega (who was on “You,” and survived Joe) and Badgley’s wife, Domino Kirke-Badgley, revolve around sometimes painful excavations of adolescence and middle school memories. Though “You” hasn’t been renewed yet, Badgley and the show’s creative team are expecting that a presumed fifth season would wrap up Joe Goldberg’s twisted story. “I think you’ve got to be fully in or fully out.”īadgley is a producer on “You,” and this season, he’s directed his first episode - the season’s penultimate, titled “She’s Not There” - which got him into the Directors Guild. “Things are so digital, so online,” he says. Badgley wants to do more as an artist - producing, directing, creating - and he’s excited about what’s next. ![]() He even stopped acting for a bit in 2016, in favor of being the lead singer of the band MOTHXR.īut he feels different now, and like any savvy actor in the digital age, he’s using this spotlight to leverage new paths for himself. He also starred as the doomed folk singer Jeff Buckley, who drowned at age 30, in the 2012 indie “Greetings From Tim Buckley.” There were years when Badgley just went through the motions. During “Gossip Girl,” he did a few film roles that felt like he was on the right track, with small parts in “Easy A” in 2010 and “Margin Call” the following year. With Joe, Badgley says he’s “finally exerting the kind of performer that I am.”īefore this period, Badgley was less engaged. He used to resist his fame, but he says the character of Joe revived him as an actor. But for Badgley, it serves as an important “signifier,” he says. I mean, man, I don’t know how to do shit!” “I was a tiny bit jealous - I’m like, ‘God, Penn really knows how to work that social media.’ I’m pretty stuck in 2000. Even his “Gossip Girl” castmate Chace Crawford saw it. The video went viral, with Swift anointing it in the comments with an “OMG!!!!□” Headlines followed, rejoicing that Badgley had joined the TikTok generation. And by goofily lip-syncing to Swift’s chorus - “I’m the problem, it’s me!” - he’s showing he can be funny and playful and not that serious at all. Badgley is well aware of his earnest image, mostly projected onto him by the public because of his portrayal of Dan Humphrey, the brooding “Gossip Girl” character he played for six seasons until the show ended in 2012, and now as Joe, the devastatingly devious embodiment of toxic masculinity. 1 slot - and the second batch set to drop on March 9.)īut back to that TikTok. 9 - and shooting into the streamer’s vaunted No. (Netflix has split the 10 episodes of the current fourth season into two parts, with the first five dropping on Feb. ![]() But then, for one reason or another, whoops!, Joe does it again, killing his various partners and the people close to them. His first effort at a TikTok video, set to Taylor Swift’s anthem “Anti-Hero,” was a nod to Joe Goldberg, the character Badgley plays on his phenomenally popular Netflix series, “You.” Joe - who in Season 1 is a Manhattan bookstore manager broken by childhood abuse - is a charming serial killer whose charisma, physical attractiveness and baggage lead women to fall for him again and again. TikTok, though, seems to 36-year-old Badgley like “a place for experimentation - and just to honestly have fun.” So last fall, he and his producing partner, Nava Kavelin, decided to dig in: “Basically, like a couple of old people, we were just going through TikTok, like, ‘What’s going on, on this thing?’” ![]()
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