Penn Badgley’s thoughts on sex scenes are very well-known. Ahead of You Season 4, which aired in Feb. 2023, he famously requested “ no more intimacy scenes ” for his character Joe Goldberg. He didn’t exactly get his wish — the show continued to have plenty of NSFW moments — and now Badgley is opening up about what it was like to be “humping” in front of cameras.

On Sept. 25, Vulture published an exclusive excerpt of Badgley’s essay in Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age . The book of essays, written by Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin, is coming out on Oct. 14.

In the snippet, Badgley details filming a sex scene in You Season 3, which required him to look directly into the camera. As he put it, “I look in camera. And I hump my a** off.”

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