Penn Badgley returns in YOU season 2
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For EW's latest digital cover, we invited YOU's Penn Badgley to play off Joe Goldberg's dark side. Scroll through to see more photos from the bloody shoot.
Anybody home?
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As Badgley told EW, Joe is "unhinged" at the start of season 2, mostly thanks to the return of Candace (Ambyr Childers), his ex-girlfriend.
She loves me ... she loves me not
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When Joe Goldberg lands in Los Angeles, he meets Love (Victoria Pedretti). "She sees somebody who has also been through a lot," Pedretti says. "She sees somebody who is lost and in pain, and so she feels a connection there."
Stop and smell the roses
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"Everybody thinks it's going to be just another season where he has an obsession and then that person ends up in a glass box," executive producer Greg Berlanti says of season 2. "That's not what we're trying to put out into the universe."
Waiting for ... you
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"If I said to somebody who had binged season 1, 'Do you think Joe would love Los Angeles?' I'm pretty sure they’d know Joe's not a big fan of Hollywood," showrunner Sera Gamble says. "He's not really an afficionado of the green juice movement."
A gift for ... you
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With the move, Joe is leaving what happened with Beck (Elizabeth Lail) behind. "He has a level of self-awareness," Gamble says. "Part of the job for us in season 2 was really about defining where is that line of self-awareness: What is he able to see and admit to himself about what happened with Beck?"
Well, hello there
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"Guys are like, 'You're creepy, bro,'" Badgley says of fan response. "And then women are like either, 'I love you' or 'I'm terrified of you' and often I think it's both."
Will you accept this rose?
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"To me, it's actually all about the fan response," Badgley says of working on YOU. "It's all about what people think about it."