Penn Badgley is reflecting on the “battle” of separating his actual life from his Gossip Woman character.
The You star opened up about his time taking part in the function of Dan Humphrey on the beloved highschool drama, which ran on The CW from 2007 to 2012, throughout a Wednesday look on the Name Her Daddy podcast.
Requested by host Alex Cooper if he discovered it troublesome to go away work from home, Badgley replied, “It was a battle… Once you do a movie, you do it as soon as and provides it your all and you then transfer on… Once you do a tv present, you’re doing it continuously due to the character of that present.”
Badgley admitted he discovered it troublesome to separate his display screen persona from his off-camera life as an actor in his early 20s.
“I used to be 20, 21, 22 so I didn’t have the emotional maturity to grasp differentiate myself when it comes to self-worth,” he stated. ”What folks appeared to consider Dan appeared to be what folks considered me.”
Alex Cooper identified that Badgley and Dan’s lives shared a number of parallels, together with the truth that he was dwelling in New York Metropolis and in a real-life relationship with Blake Full of life on the time, as their characters additionally dated on the collection.
Badgley added that “celeb tradition” within the late-2000s throughout Gossip Woman‘s run was fueled by shops “in search of a fast sound chunk.” He recalled typically being requested about his courting life on the time, which led to him feeling “such as you’re continuously needing to show your self in some method, in any other case what are you doing?”
He additionally famous that whereas he was engaged on Gossip Woman, “I had sufficient sense, sufficient intelligence, sufficient self-worth… I wasn’t dropping myself,” however that the dearth of day by day detachment from the function “bothered” him.
