Penn Badgley Reveals You’s Connection to Gossip Girl

Penn Badgely might be known for playing an outsider, but he shared some insider information.

The You star revealed during a set tour with Architectural Digest that the Netflix thriller series films on the same soundstage where he once filmed Gossip Girl. 

“A little bit of an interesting note,” Penn, 38, said while in the bookstore basement or “the cage,” which is where his serial killer character Joe keeps his victims. “This is where we shot Gossip Girl.” 

And the creepy, dark set that the stage is home to now couldn’t be more different than what it was home to during the Gossip Girl days.

“This is the same stage where the Waldorf suites or whatever, where they live,” he shared, referring to Blair Waldorf’s Manhattan penthouse on the show, “It was in this stage.” 

And Penn went on to share another surprising fact, adding that the home of his own Gossip Girl character, Dan Humphrey, was once in the stage where the bookstore is now.

“The stage with the bookstore was where the Humphrey loft was,” he said, “So this place is extremely familiar to me.”