Penn Badgley is dangerously charming in exclusive portraits from EW's YOU cover shoot
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Penn Badgley returns in YOU season 2
For EW's latest digital cover, we invited YOU's Penn Badgley to play off Joe Goldberg's dark side. Scroll through to see more photos from the bloody shoot.
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Anybody home?
As Badgley told EW, Joe is "unhinged" at the start of season 2, mostly thanks to the return of Candace (Ambyr Childers), his ex-girlfriend.
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She loves me ... she loves me not
When Joe Goldberg lands in Los Angeles, he meets Love (Victoria Pedretti). "She sees somebody who has also been through a lot," Pedretti says. "She sees somebody who is lost and in pain, and so she feels a connection there."
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Stop and smell the roses
"Everybody thinks it's going to be just another season where he has an obsession and then that person ends up in a glass box," executive producer Greg Berlanti says of season 2. "That's not what we're trying to put out into the universe."
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Waiting for ... you
"If I said to somebody who had binged season 1, 'Do you think Joe would love Los Angeles?' I'm pretty sure they’d know Joe's not a big fan of Hollywood," showrunner Sera Gamble says. "He's not really an afficionado of the green juice movement."
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A gift for ... you
With the move, Joe is leaving what happened with Beck (Elizabeth Lail) behind. "He has a level of self-awareness," Gamble says. "Part of the job for us in season 2 was really about defining where is that line of self-awareness: What is he able to see and admit to himself about what happened with Beck?"
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Well, hello there
"Guys are like, 'You're creepy, bro,'" Badgley says of fan response. "And then women are like either, 'I love you' or 'I'm terrified of you' and often I think it's both."
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Will you accept this rose?
"To me, it's actually all about the fan response," Badgley says of working on YOU. "It's all about what people think about it."