Penn Badgley and the new season of You: "I hate my character, he is unreliable and violent"

The actor Penn Badgley suffers for his popular character in the series You (the stalker and murderer Joe Goldberg), ahead of the

on Netflix.

In an exclusive interview with

, the 36-year-old actor anticipates: “If I were Joe, he would say to me 'Why can't I relax?'

The new great challenge for him will be to see himself and be able to say to himself: 'That

is you'”.

Penn Badgley smiles earnestly on the Zoom screen ahead.

He sports a dark beard and slightly overgrown wavy hair, just like Joe Goldberg in the fourth season of

:

.

Badgley is from Baltimore, United States.

But this obsessive and bloody protagonist that he has been playing since 2018 will flee to London after the corpses he left behind.

And he will discover new ones.

The first five episodes of this fourth season will be released this Thursday the 9th and the remaining five on March 9.

The novelty is that Joe Goldberg will not be the initial culprit of the crimes in London.

.

Without having foreseen it, the stellar criminal in

will have transformed into an amateur detective on the hunt for whoever left him secret messages in London.

Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg, in "You."

The murderer becomes an amateur detective in the fourth season.

photo netflix

Who will beat whom?

To put his trauma (and the corpses of the third season) behind him, Joe now calls himself Jonathan Moore and works as a professor of Literature at Oxford.

Thus, Joe-Jonathan is going to meet a select group of rich men and women who will not have time to harass and kill.

Another (or another) is doing it for him.

Will they discover the true identity of Joe Goldberg?

"Try to be a good man"

-Penn, do you think this season is the best of all?

-Mmmm, I think it has the potential to be.

I didn't watch all four seasons one after the other to say so.

I think this fourth season is about to be the best.

But I'm really interested to see what the public thinks.

In civilian

Penn Badgley, in an interview regarding the premiere of the fourth season of "You".

Photo Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP

-What do you love and hate about the way Joe acts in London?

-Joe is always himself.

He all the time he is trying not to be and not to hurt anyone.

To get out of any of those possible situations.

What I appreciate about Joe Goldberg is that he tries, now, to be a good man.

But

.

-Joe is a better detective than a murderer?

-He's a good detective.

He is smart and thinks fast.

But

.

For example, he is clumsy in his way of hiding evidence.

So Joe is probably a better detective than a killer.

He is not good at both things at the same time.

Fascinated with a murderer?

Penn Badgley, in the fourth season of "You", the police series.

Netflix photo.

With the sure success of the fourth season of

, thanks to the morbidity of seeing a stalker measuring himself against another, the questions about the problem of being fascinated with Joe Goldberg will return.

It's not

: it's a bloodthirsty being

.

But he will not have time to repent.

He must solve the mystery of the murderer on the loose in London, just like in a classic Agatha Christie detective story.

The famous “whodunit” (who did it): discover the one who kills the others in a closed group.

Unlike Joe Goldberg, actor Penn Badgley takes it easy.

He hears

's questions and resumes the analysis of the fourth season of

.

“I always get a verbal presentation of the script before I read it,” Badgley reveals.

I think they took the plot to the only place it could go for the show to evolve.

Joe might not be evolving, but the show is moving forward."

-What is your favorite scene of the fourth season?

-I think my favorite scenes are the ones I shared with the actor Ed Speleers, who plays the writer Rhys Montrose, and with Charlotte Ritchie, who plays Kate.

With the two of them I have to do different things, playing Joe, than he himself had ever done.

Ed Speleers is the writer Rhys Montrose, in the fourth season of "You".

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Penn Badgley named the two most original characters -apart from him-, that are added to this season.

seem to have found a new narrative effectiveness in this English detective story in the style of Agatha Christie.

The suspicions and anxiety that the spectators will live will be the guarantee of the serial marathon.

Rhys Montrose (Ed Speelers) is a successful writer whose memoirs lifted him out of poverty.

He will be an inspiration to Joe Goldberg.

He will be delighted every time they talk about literature, morals, London society and these strange rich young men whom he watches and watches with fascination.

What makes Rhys Montrose so interesting?

The other addition, Kate, is played by Charlotte Ritchie (an English comic actress, famous for the

series ).

She will play the romantic interest of Joe Goldberg: a gallery owner and art curator, with short dark hair and a passive-aggressive attitude.

Will Kate be the real shadow assassin?

Charlotte Ritchie and Penn Bedgley, in the fourth season of "You."

He falls in love with her.

Photo: Netflix

Every scene between Penn Badgley and Charlotte Christie is an acting delight

.

The sexual tension between his characters sustains the renewed seductive power of

alongside the police “whodunit”.

And the other friends of the millionaire circle in danger are almost archetypes of idiocy: an artificial influencer, a fake artist, an insecure fetishist, the enigmatic Oriental.

They will all be suspects.

In counterbalance, another new character will also shine, Nadia (played by Amy-Leigh Hickman).

She is one of Joe's literary students, and who advises him on police codes similar to those of Agatha Christie.

Or is it really Nadia who wants to see everyone dead?

What is the motive for the London crimes?

Joe Goldberg will take time to focus the investigation, since he is still in mourning -and in trauma- for the terrible events that he himself had caused in the third season

).

Having murdered his crazed wife Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), he faked his own death and fled to Europe, obsessed with African-American librarian Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle).

Penn Badgley and Amy-Leigh Hickman.

She plays one of Joe's students, Badgley's character.

Netflix photo.

Joe traveled to Paris to stalk her, but it's better not to anticipate what will happen to Marienne.

Since they were following him from the United States, he decided to hide his identity and call himself Jonathan Moore.

Give yourself a new chance.

"I don't want to kill again.

I want to redeem myself, ”reiterates his voiceover of him: that constant low whisper in the ears of the viewers.

that Joe Goldberg will have to face.

-Penn, were you a reader of crime novels?

-No, they never interested me much.

I'm not the type of person for mystery thrillers.

But unlike Joe, I don't believe there is such a thing as a lesser form of literature.

I like mystery, yes, but I prefer less dark mysteries.

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