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Penn Badgley Explains Why People Are So Attracted To His ‘You’ Character

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 10:35

Penn Badgley has opened up about why so many people are attracted to his character in Netflix’s ‘You’ and his theory actually makes a lot of sense.

During an interview on The Today Show, he explained that a lot of viewers have mixed feelings about Joe Goldberg and that some of them can not only halfway ~understand~ some of his actions but are actively rooting for him throughout the series.

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"The whole point is he's meant to garner a conflicted reaction," he said. "I don't see him as a portrayal of a real person, I see him as a representation of the part of us that identifies with him. 

As for why we’re so invested in his story, Penn added that we might actually see ourselves in his character: “The part of us that is a troll; that part of us that is victim blaming; the part of us that is privileged and blind. We're meant to identify with him."

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What’s also interesting about Joe is that he isn’t exactly the smoothest serial killer on record and that social-media just makes it easier for him to explore the darkest aspects of his personality. 

“The whole point is that Joe is actually not a mastermind. He's actually, in some ways, extremely average," he added. 

“It's this really interesting thing where you're seeing the trajectory of a soul, of a man and he's just completely obsessive and compulsive and believing that he's operating by the logic of a true romantic."

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