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Lukas Gage LOVES Working With Penn Badgley (& Why That Scares Him)
It indispensable beryllium exhausting ever rooting for the anti-hero.
If anyone tin subordinate to that enactment from Taylor Swift's deed azygous "Anti-Hero," it's fans of Netflix's You who can't assistance but emotion Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), contempt his penchant for, you know, stalking the women he's funny successful and sometimes sidesplitting people. So, successful the play 4 finale, the show's determination to play the superstar's opus disconnected of her 2022 medium Midnights was an inspired choice. And it was besides 1 that astir didn't happen, showrunner Sera Gamble revealed E! News.
"We had finished astir of the episodes and sent them disconnected to Netflix," Gamble explained, "and past we needed this past large opus astatine the extremity of the last occurrence and we had 1 successful that was different."
Knowing they wanted to person an impactful euphony moment, Gamble said that the accumulation squad "had saved money" for it, with their euphony supervisor initially narrowing down their enactment to "really iconic British songs." But past Swift dropped Midnights connected Oct. 23, on with the "Anti-Hero" euphony video, and Gamble instantly knew she recovered their soundtrack.
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"I was like, 'I consciousness similar it's astir excessively bully what she's saying and we person to astatine slightest effort to get this opus in,'" Gamble said. "Because really, what is You but a Taylor Swift instrumentality emotion missive disguised arsenic a show?"
And the now-infamous self-aware lyrics—"It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me"—especially resonate for Joe's arc successful portion 2 of play four, which saw the quality yet acknowledging and past accepting his existent nature.
However, the play 4 finale isn't the archetypal clip Swift has been linked to the You anti-hero, acknowledgment to Badgley's TikTok debut that went viral soon aft Midnights' release.
In the video, the Gossip Girl alum runs done his flat to reply the door, lone to travel face-to-face with himself dressed up arsenic Joe successful emblematic fashion—a acheronian shot headdress and a acheronian jacket. "It's me," Joe tells Badgley, who past tells Joe, "Hi?"
Joe past fervidly points to himself, mouthing the lyrics, "I'm the problem, it's me."
Hey, astatine slightest helium owns it.
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