Penn Badgley on You's Joe Goldberg: "It seems to me that Joe is an allegory for the history of our country, maybe"
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In filming Season 2, Badgley tried to reflect on his character's misdeeds by reading Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. But, Badgley says, “there’s no way that I could understand what it would take for a person like Joe to be redeemed.” So he ended up frequently listening to the rapper Saba. "He’s African-American, in Chicago, witnessing a lot of mental illness and death and murder in his life,” Badgley says. “I started to trace back the reality of white privilege. How many white men in the days of slavery were slaveowners? Or were adjacent to the murder and torture of people because of the color of their skin?” Saba’s music, he says, helped him understand “that the violence of Joe is not that far from the reality of not that long ago," adding: "It seems to me that Joe is an allegory for the history of our country, maybe.”
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TOPICS: Penn Badgley, Netflix, You (Netflix series), Victoria Pedretti
