Though Penn Badgley is grateful for his breakout function as Dan Humphrey, the outsider character seems to have represented a little bit of artwork imitating life.
The Gossip Woman alum just lately mirrored on his starring function within the CW teen drama collection, which ran for six seasons from 2007 to 2012, and the way the function launched him “superficiality of this work” in Hollywood.
“What was that present apart from aesthetic? That was its factor, the best way all of us appeared,” he informed The Guardian. “I didn’t significantly love the superficial superstar facet of the best way I used to be perceived.”
Badgley defined, “There was only a interval the place, popping out of despair and isolation, I used to be leaping willfully into, but in addition being thrust into, this world the place the extra conventionally lovely I appeared, the extra profitable I is likely to be, the extra worth I might need. There’s no technique to get previous the superficiality of this work, and should you recognise that, you possibly can’t assist however recognise the superficiality of our tradition, due to the best way it rewards this work.”
Struggling “physique dysmorphia” as a baby, Badgley felt like resembling the traditional actors he admired “simply appeared like an impossibility.”
Primarily based on the books by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Woman follows the privileged college students of a personal college on Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, the lives of whom are documented on the ruthless titular blogger’s web site.
As Dan Humphrey, Badgley performed the Brooklyn outsider who discovered his manner into the elite clique by way of his romance with Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Full of life). Though each characters had been referenced within the 2021 Max revival, neither Badgley or Full of life reprised their roles.
