Penn Badgley Reveals ‘You’ Cage Room Used to Be Blair Waldorf’s Penthouse in ‘Gossip Lady’

• Penn Badgley gave a video tour of the units on You following the Netflix sequence’ fifth and closing season 
• Throughout the video, the actor reveals that his character Joe Goldberg’s notorious cage room was beforehand Blair Waldorf’s lavish penthouse on Gossip Lady 
• Badgley starred on the CW teen drama from 2007 to 2012 earlier than You premiered in 2018 

Penn Badgley is letting Gossip Lady followers in on a little bit secret!

Whereas giving a tour of the areas seen within the hit Netflix present You, Badgley revealed to Architectural Digest that Gossip Lady was as soon as filmed on the identical actual levels greater than a decade in the past. He shares the enjoyable tidbit whereas exhibiting off the eerie basement the place his character, serial assassin Joe Goldberg, holds his victims captive in a clear cage. 

“Just a little little bit of an attention-grabbing word… that is the place we shot Gossip Lady,” Badgley, 38, says within the April 28 video tour. The actor performed Dan Humphrey on the fan-favorite CW sequence when it aired from 2007 to 2012.

“This is identical stage the place the Waldorf suites or no matter, the place they reside, it was on this stage,” he continues, referring to the lavish Manhattan penthouse the place Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) lived within the present. 

He then explains that Mooney’s Bookstore, the place his You character Joe Goldberg works, was once Dan Humprey’s loft the place he lived along with his dad Rufus (Matthew Settle) and sister Jenny (Taylor Momsen).  

“The stage with the bookstore was the place the Humphrey loft was,” he says, earlier than including, “so this place is extraordinarily acquainted to me.”  

Badgley continues, “I used to be simply standing outdoors trying on the timber and I assumed, ‘I’ve been these timber for practically 20 years now.’ And I assumed to myself, ‘Have they grown? Do timber within the metropolis, over the course of 20 years, do they develop?’ They have to.”

He provides with a smile, “In order that’s just a bit window into my mind.”

The actor, who spent nearly all of his 20s enjoying Dan Humprey, not too long ago opened as much as PEOPLE about how Joe Goldberg turned a major a part of his 30s. 

“I feel I’ll miss him a little bit bit. He is been a profound expertise for me,” Badgley instructed PEOPLE of his character Joe. “He isn’t an actual individual. So what have I been doing? I have been partaking on this lengthy [journey] my complete 30s.”

“I used to be 30 once I took the position. I will be 39 this yr. Though the present, the best way it got here out, it is really been nearer to seven years. For me, it is like my 30s,” he continues. 

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“I turned a father whereas I used to be on this present. I solely received married simply earlier than I took the position. So I’ve grown lots and I’ve grown with Joe in an odd approach,” he provides, referring to his pregnant spouse Domino Kirke and their 4-year-old son.

The John Tucker Should Die star additionally famous that Joe “taught me lots about what it’s to be a person by figuring out what it isn’t. And I do not imply the apparent issues like, ‘Oh, do not homicide. That is unhealthy.’ That is very clear.”

You’s fifth and closing season premiered on Thursday, April 24, marking the official finish of the psychological-thriller that followers have been following for the final seven years. The brand new season stars Charlotte Ritchie alongside Badgley, in addition to new additions Madeline Brewer, Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews.