A Penn Badgley Break

I feel attacked.

Penn Badgley Ten Times

For someone who insisted that his character be in just his underwear for the final episode of his serial killer series, Penn Badgley sure did allow himself to be far far too covered up for this Flaunt photoshoot advertising said same series. (And yes I know that fact even though I have never seen a single second of You -- pop culture osmosis y'all. At least as far as the subject of "actors in underwear" is concerned.) 

This whole shoot is pretty boring honestly (besides Penn being so pretty obviously) but there are a couple shots I liked (mostly that first one) so I will share the whole thing. Y'all try not to fall asleep. And Penn -- bring that same energy you brought to the set when you demanded near nudity to your PR campaigns next time around please! We know you're capable of it. Hit the jump for this shoot (plus a video that at least let's us glimpse that famous chest fur)...

Today's Mood

Exceedingly glad, for everyone's sake, 

that I did not see this in person. (via)

Good Morning, World

Happy Monday from the ever resplendent Travis Van Winkle, seen here covering the new issue of Man About Town magazine (via) -- future co-star of Jake Gyllenhaal in the Road House remake, and former "dude who jerked off in front of Penn Badgley," I did a search through our archives upon realizing that Mr. Van Winkle didn't have a tag here on the site only to realize that I've been posting about him for a full fifteen years ever since he got cast in the (terrible) Friday the 13th reboot and I should probably give the pretty boy a tag already. And so we did! But you should probably hit the jump for the rest of this photoshoot which inspired that first...

Penn Badgley Eight TImes

It is pretty darn cruel of Interview Magazine to put the resplendant fur-monster Penn Badgley in a white mesh tee and then hide the heft of what we're here for behind some foggy glass! Just picture all of those chest-hairs poking through... you're all on notice, Interview Magazine! Anyway it's still a good shoot, as it is Penn, worth sharing. I guess I'm never going to watch his Netflix show You at this point -- it's been on too long, I will never sit down and watch four or five seasons of something at the rate content has become un-keep-up-with-able. Oh well. We'll always have that that scene where Travis Van Winkle got naked and played with himself in front of Penn, at least. And now also these photos! Hit the jump for these photos...

Happy InDePlaidPants Day 2022

For the third year in a row I am giving you people something to actually celebrate on July 4th, since the thought of celebrating "America" these days makes anyone with a sane brain break out in hives -- Happy InDePlaidPants Day! Wherein we instead tip our hats toward a bunch of photos of of attractively styled actors wearing this site's namesake pants o' plaid! Okay okay let's not be "controversial" -- you can also celebrate "America" if you want to. I won't smack the sparkler out of anybody's hands. These two things can coexist. I don't want a bunch of mouth-breathing red-hatters deciding to boycott plaid pants or anything. (As if they'd have the fashion capabilities in the first place.)  We're just here for pictures (and to hate Republicans), hit the jump for the pictures (and just hate the Republicans inside of your hearts)...

Good Morning, World

What better way to wish Penn Badgley a happy 35th birthday this morning than with some birthday suit! No not his -- he's been notoriously stingy in that arena -- but his You co-star travis Van Winkle will do, since Travis (who we just posted some more of last week) did just that during the most recent season (or so I am told, not having watched the show still) (well I guess I have been more than "told" since I have visual proof right here, that I am posting -- listen it's Monday morning after Halloween, cut me some slack). Weirdly I was planning on posting these shots from the episode anyway -- I mean that's not weird, the reasons for that are obvious; what's weird is I was planning on that and then I saw it was Penn's birthday. Kismet! Hit the jump for more of this good sweet stuff...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Travis Van Winkle

Been thinking about Travis Van Winkle a lot this week since...

Ohhhh, this might get to finally watch YOU pic.twitter.com/NC3eHEHId5

— My New Dead Pants (@JAMNPP) October 15, 2021

... I tweeted that image; I still haven't started watching You but with that and with the Scott Speedman news (the news: he's on it) I really probably will soon. It's weird how little Travis I have posted here over the years, although to show proof of his longevity I point you to the first "Gratuitous Travis Van Winkle" post I did in 2008 here and the second one I did in 2017 right here, and now here we are, another four years on poring over him yet again -- for someone who I couldn't tell you what I know him from (the Friday the 13th remake I guess?) he's had lasting power! Then again look at him. No seriously look, I have a few new photos after the jump...

You Talkin' To Me

Getting lots of comments about Penn Badgley's series You on my Scott Speedman post from this morning because apparently Scott, without me knowing it, shows up on the new season of that series -- anyway this offers me a terrific excuse to also share these new photos of Penn (via, thx Mac) as I leave the building a smidge early for yet another press screening. I really should watch You at some point, I know, it checks off so many of my boxes. And is there any way for me to use the word "box" again in reference to what Penn Badgley still does for me without it sounding seriously filthy? Probably not. I am okay with that. Hit the jump for more Penn...

Eli Brown Eight Times

I never watched the original Gossip Girl -- it was on during a period where I wasn't watching a lot of TV -- but I kept up well enough with its cute boys at least; I sure did post enough of Penn Badgley at the time here on the site. Well the trailer for the new iteration of the show, which hits HBO Max on July 8th, has arrived (I'll share it below) and it looks like this adorable fella Eli Brown is the "Penn Badgley" type this go-round and MNPP approves. 

Eli's co-star, the appreciatively skuzzier Thomas Doherty, had managed to swoop in early and grab our eyeballs a couple of times, but watching the trailer (besides all of the bi-action Doherty's party to) it was Eli who got me quickest to googling. Thankfully W Mag had already chatted with him back in April, and I've got their shoot after the jump...

Penn Badgley Eight Times

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The last time I posted a Penn Badgley photoshoot was almost a year ago, right here, and I prefer that one to this one because that one let his chest hair fly. But ya can't knock that beard either, so I'll accept these. I accept! Anyway I still haven't watched Penn's show You even though I know it's become somewhat of a phenom -- I just haven't had the time y'all. It's either that or watch David Lynch's monkey movie fifty times from my sick-bed and I think y'all know where I fall. Hit the jump for the rest of this shoot...
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Penn Badgley Five Times

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If you feel the need to read the interview with GQ 

that is attached to this photo-shoot, click here. The rest of us, 

we'll just stare at the photos here after the jump...

Good Morning, World

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I haven't yet watched this week's premiere of You, Lifetime's rom-com stalker program (for lack of a better phrase) starring Penn Badgley as a furry-chested book-shop clerk (yup they really aimed straight for my heart here) who becomes psycho-obsessed with a girl who comes into his shop. Did any of... you? (That word feels like a pun every time I use it in relation to this show.) I could use some good trash right about now - a show that co-stars John Stamos as a character named "Dr. Nicky" might just do the trick.
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The Lifetime Sexy Psychopath Hour

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I share this trailer for the new Lifetime series You mostly out of a sense of duty - it stars one-time Gossip Girl paramour Penn Badgley as an apparently psychotic book-shop owner! - than I do enthusiasm - it is a Lifetime psycho boyfriend show, of which there have been too many, and it's been a long time since Gossip Girl, Penn. 

But honestly there are moments in between the pablum in this trailer that stick out - maybe it's self-aware and funny? I mean Lifetime did after all recently give us UnREAL, a wonderfully trashy but occasionally more-than-that show that I am one hundred percent addicted to. UnREAL... and speaking of, sidenote: I am so into the bisexual Russian Coke-whore Alexi (Alex Sparrow) this season:

Aaaaaanyway You was co-written by Love Simon director Greg Berlanti which means it's probably akin to his superhero shows on the CW, none of which I can be bothered with. So this is a toss-up for me. What do y'all think? Could it be the new Revenge? That's the best possible outcome. (I miss Revenge so much.)

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Good Morning, World

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I'm going to try to talk about Twin Peaks without spoiling anything but I know what a high-wire act it was for me going through all day yesterday trying to avoid any information, period, so use your judgement here, people. So yeah anyway my boyfriend was pretty sad that we might not be seeing a whole lot of this here Ben Rosenfield chap later in the season, so this one's for him.

I wasn't familiar with Rosenfield but he's been bouncing around for a few years - I guess he was on Boardwalk Empire and he had small roles in A Most Violent Year and in Woody Allen's Irrational Man. I actually have a fuzzy memory of finding him cute in Greetings From Tim Buckley, in which he played the titular character in flashbacks as Penn Badgley moped around as his son and fellow musician Jeff. (That was a bad movie.)

Anyway I know the third and fourth episodes of the show are out there and I might watch them tonight but for now, after only having watched the first two hours, I can say I am so fully on-board with the whole shebang it ain't even funny. I actually saw that complaint a lot - where's the humor? I don't know what show you people were watching I was giggling like a lunatic during these two hours. 

"I am the arm... and I sound like this."

I mean if you can't laugh at a wobbly tree of neural receptors with a mashed-potato face then what can you laugh at? And don't tell me Lynch doesn't know it looks goofy - the absurdity is entirely the point. But I'm not here to lecture people into liking or getting David Lynch - I'm here to say how much I like and how much I get David Lynch. Twin Peaks forced me to turn off my phone, turn off the lights, and slow slow slow myself down to a near hallucinatory state. I was floating in the tank with a separate consciousness for two hours. It was sublime. In summation -- bonus Ben Rosenfield picture!

Father's Day's Ways Not To Die

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"Let me ask you a question, Ray.

Are you interested in buying a house, or in me?"
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Of course Ray is interested in Jerry -- excuse me, "Jerry" -- as we all are, but re-watching this movie this time around all of this scene suddenly seemed coded. And that line especially.

They talk a bunch about bachelorhood and "traditional families" -- just two fellas, strolling around a flowered bedroom in the afternoon, like big straight fellas do.

Methinks that "Jerry"...

... doth protest...

... too much.

Father's Day's here and what better way to celebrate than with The Stepfather (the original of course)? Hit the jump for the rest...

I Am Link

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--- More Like Homicide - Oh goodness this Suicide Squad movie is tearing me right in two. On the good side you've got Tom Hardy in the lead (as somebody named Rick Flagg - I've never read the story but I figured since it is about villains in the Batman universe that Tom was playing Bane again, whoopsie) and you've got Jai "Mmmm Jai" Courtney playing somebody called Boomerang (I s'pose his Aussie accent will come in handywith that name). On the middle side (yes that's a side, shut up) you've got the two ladies - Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Cara Delevingne as Enchantress; middle cuz I don't know them well enough to fall either way. But then the bads on the bad side are very bad, very bad - Will SMith is playing Deadshot and I am super over Will Smith these days, and scourge-upon-humanity Jared Leto is playing the Joker, which..... sigh. RIP Heath. What a world.

--- Violent Win - In case you missed the National Board of Reviews awards yesterday - beyond the part where Alessandro Nivola wisely used them as an excuse to show off his tennis shorts, of course - then head over to The Film Experience where Glenn hit 'em up. The awards I mean, not Alessandro's shorts, unfortunately for Glenn. 

--- Higher Powers - I don't know why I keep posting about this Powers television show (about cops chasing people with superpowers) since it's airing on the Playstation's home network and I don't have a Playstation oh wait right it stars Sharlto Copley I know exactly why I keep posting on it. DH has a group of new pictures from the series and while there's nothing as appetizing at that semi-shirtless shot in the trailer he still looks mighty sharp in his suit there. 

--- Buy A Bat - Since Batman Returns is the best Batman movie I'll never get tired of reading things about it and this one's news to me - apparently there was supposed to be a scene set in a Batman Store filled with meta-memorabilia that someone had opened up in Gotham City at one point in the script; the scene got cut but the set actually was built, and you can see pictures of it over at Slash. It reminds me of the scene in Jurassic Park where the camera pans along all the JP merch...

--- Punk Ass - HBO has picked up Martin Scorsese's series about the music business in the 1970s that will star Boardwalk Empire's Bobby Cannavale, which Marty has co-created with Mick Jagger. Hey remember that time that Bobby walked around totes naked and covered in blood on Boardwalk Empire? let's hope for more of that. 

--- Tell It To Judy - Today's lunch-time reading: hells yeah, a long interview with Judy Greer! Guess she talks a bunch about Ant-Man, or you know she talks about what Marvel will let her talk about with regards to Ant-Man. Oh and speaking of that movie, Evangaline Lilly talked to The Playlist about why Edgar Wright left the movie, and sure enough it's because he wanted his story to stand on its own and not be a cog in the gigantic Marvel Universe Machine.

--- Penn Like Yesterday - Hadn't heard anything about this movie called Periods until right now, but show me pictures of a youthful-looking Penn Badgley (I say "youthful-looking" because he hasn't been looking especially fresh lately, off the screen) and you're gonna get my attention quick like. The Playlist has the trailer; it also stars Zachary Quinto and a bunch of lesser-known folks in a tale spanning all of time, with a lot of bad wigs. I have no idea. But Penn looks cute!

--- Fresh Meat Motel - My like for the show Bates Motel just about plummeted in the second season; I thought it became practically unwatchable. In fact I can't even remember if I finished the season or not. All that generic drug-dealer business about the brother was abysmal, abysmal junk. Just give me Vera Farmiga freaking out for an hour a week, please! Anyway in good news they've hired Blair Witch's Joshua Leonard to co-star the third season; he'll be the new guy in Norma's life. That oughta go well for everybody involved.
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Good Morning, World

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Whatcha up to, Penn Badgley? (via)

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Baby Bird To Ben's Big Bat

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Over the weekend word sprung up that Girls star Adam Driver might be playing the Robin to Ben Affleck's daddy-bat in that Batman vs. Superman movie that Zack Snyder's making next. (Or maybe we're calling Robin "Nightwing" now? Is that cooler? Nightwing just makes me think of being stoned and eating chicken wings at 3 in the morning.) Anyway so Adam Driver. I like him on Girls very much! (And he was maybe the best thing in Inside Llewyn Davis, if you ask me - he popped up for two minutes and was delightful.) He's awfully idiosyncratic for Snyder's Metropolis though - he'll have more personality than Henry Cavill will know what to do with. (Then again I would've said that about Michael Shannon before seeing the movie, and Snyder managed to beat him down into a single dimension of nothing but super-screaming.)

Anyway the next day I read that Adam's not the only name being put out there - I also heard that Ezra Miller (of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Penn Badgley were maybe possibly maybes as well. And since this is becoming a thing, expect a bunch of agents to plant stories with their clients names in the pile today - Justin Bieber! Tom Selleck! Yassir Arafat risen from the grave! Until then, two things - you guys tell me out of these first three names who's your pick for Robin I mean Nightwing. And then we'll celebrate with five more pictures of Adam Driver, hooray!

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