Penn Badgley reveals enjoyable ‘Gossip Girl’ reality about cage room from ‘You’

Penn Badgley on relationship between ‘You’ cage room and ‘Gossip Ladies’

Penn Badgley simply gave followers a enjoyable dose of TV nostalgia — with a twist of eerie coincidence. Whereas strolling viewers via the set of his Netflix thriller You in a video tour for Architectural Digest, the 38-year-old actor dropped a shocking behind-the-scenes gem: the exact same levels used for his present present have been as soon as house to Gossip Lady.

“A little bit of an interesting note… this is where we shot Gossip Girl,” Badgley reveals, whereas standing within the creepy basement the place his You character, Joe Goldberg, retains his victims in a see-through cage. 

Yep, the identical soundstage that now screams psychological horror used to echo with the dramatic lives of Higher East Facet teenagers.

He went on to level out, “This is the same stage where the Waldorf suites or whatever, where they live, it was in this stage,” referring to the glam Manhattan pad the place Blair Waldorf (performed by Leighton Meester) lived.

However that’s not all — the placement will get much more private. 

“The stage with the bookstore was where the Humphrey loft was,” Badgley provides, connecting the dots between Joe Goldberg’s bookish hang-out and Dan Humphrey’s humble Brooklyn roots. 

For long-time followers, it’s a full-circle second, Dan’s once-comfy household house is now Joe’s twisted looking floor.

Reflecting on the familiarity of the place, Badgley mused, “I was just standing outside looking at the trees and I thought, ‘I’ve been looking at these trees for nearly 20 years now.’ And I thought to myself, ‘Have they grown? Do trees in the city, over the course of 20 years, do they grow?’ They must.”

He adopted it up with a smile and the peerlessly quirky remark, “So that’s just a little window into my brain.”