“I actually fought to be as naked as possible in that last sequence because he needed to be as dangerously close to being witnessed finally as a sexual predator that he was,” Badgley told People in a story published April 25.

In an interview, Penn Badgley breaks down the series finale of Netflix's You and why Joe Goldberg's downfall had to happen the way it did.

Penn Badgley made headlines in 2023 when the “Gossip Girl” alum, 38, spoke out against sex scenes and revealed he’d asked the “You” creators to cut back on them. However, in the fifth and final season, which is now streaming, his character, Joe Goldberg, steams up the screen several times.