Penn Badgley is reflecting on the “wrestle” 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 depart work from home, Badgley replied, “It was a wrestle… While you do a movie, you do it as soon as and provides it your all and you then transfer on… While you do a tv present, you’re doing it consistently 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 mentioned. ”What individuals appeared to think about Dan gave the impression to be what individuals considered me.”
Alex Cooper identified that Badgley and Dan’s lives shared a couple of parallels, together with the truth that he was dwelling in New York Metropolis and in a real-life relationship with Blake Energetic 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 chew.” He recalled typically being requested about his relationship life on the time, which led to him feeling “such as you’re consistently 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 shedding myself,” however that the shortage of day by day detachment from the function “bothered” him.