Why Penn Badgley stopped resisting the comparisons between his You and Gossip Girl characters

The New York Times

"First of all, any part of me that was resisting the Dan Humphrey comparison has stopped because I’ve come to recognize how much of this is a surreal progression of Dan Humphrey," says Badgley. "He’s the very special white man who somehow thinks that he’s an outsider, and it’s like, 'Bro, you’re not an outsider — you are the inside; everyone else is on the outside.' It would all be so comical, if it wasn’t also the generating impulse for so much prejudice which can get translated into violence." ALSO: You boss Sera Gamble on Netflix's 40 million figure and being allowed to curse on Netflix.