- LOS ANGELES — For actor Penn Badgley it was difficult to leave his “Gossip Girl” character Dan
Humphrey behind after the show concluded in 2012.
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- In a recent appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast,
Badgley said that it was difficult to “move on” from the role after starring in
the hit series for six seasons.
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- “It was a struggle,” Badgley said, reports variety.com.
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- “When you do a film, you do it once and give it your all,
and then you move on… When you do a television show, you’re doing it constantly
because of the nature of that show.”
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- He added: “I was 20, 21, 22, so I didn’t have the
emotional maturity to understand how to differentiate myself in terms of
self-worth. What people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought
of me.”
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- Badgley added that the “celebrity culture” in the late
2000s didn’t help either.
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- During the peak of “Gossip Girl,” the “You” star said he
was constantly being asked about his dating life, which made him feel like,
“you’re constantly needing to prove yourself in some manner, otherwise what are
you doing?”
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- “Gossip Girl” ran for 121 episodes from 2007 to 2012.
Starring Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford, Kelly
Rutherford, Matthew Settle and Jessica Szohr, the show followed a group of
wealthy New York teens whose scandalous lifestyles are repeatedly disrupted by
an anonymous blogger known only as Gossip Girl.
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- In the show’s final episode, “New York, I Love You XOXO,”
Badgley’s character Dan Humphrey is said to be the notorious Gossip Girl,
citing his outcast status among the elite as the reason for starting the blog.
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- Badgley came to prominence playing Phillip Chancellor IV
on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
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- He featured in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die, Drive-Thru
and Easy A, the thriller films The Stepfather and Margin Call, the biographical
film Greetings from Tim Buckley, and the drama film The Paper Store.
