"Are You Kidding Me": Shenae Grimes Called Out The "Double Standard" In How Penn Badgley Was Praised For Refusing Sex Scenes

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Shenae Grimes has "a bony to pick" with Penn Badgley implicit what she called a "double standard" aft helium was praised for asking to trim his enactment scenes connected You.

In 2023, Penn made headlines aft revealing that he'd asked for less enactment scenes connected the Netflix thriller, saying it was retired of respect for his wife, Domino Kirke-Badgley.

Speaking connected the Podcrushed podcast, Penn explained, "Fidelity successful each relationship, including my marriage, is important to me. It's got to the constituent wherever I don't privation to bash that."

Penn said helium spoke to You creator Sera Gamble aft the show's 3rd play astir perchance reducing the fig of emotion scenes, which had been plentiful up to that point. According to him, Sera “didn’t adjacent bat an eye" and successful the end, determination was "a phenomenal reduction."

At the time, Penn's comments drew mixed reactions. While immoderate criticized him, others praised him for mounting boundaries and having them respected.

But Shenae says watching those reactions unfold felt frustrating.

"I was sitting determination like, are you fucking kidding me?" she said connected her speech bid Lost the Plot.

"When I work astir the applause that helium was getting from the nationalist for speaking up for himself and his narration and respectfully deciding not to proceed with immoderate enactment scenes oregon thing that compromised his boundaries successful seasons of You that were forthcoming, it conscionable benignant of broke my bosom a small bit."

"Because I'm like, fuck man," she continued. "How galore women person tried to talk up for themselves implicit the years successful these shoes oregon person conscionable been brushed past oregon labeled arsenic hard and hard to enactment with oregon conscionable told, 'Tough shit. We'll find idiosyncratic who volition bash it anyway?'"

She added, "I don't person the nonstop statistic, but my conjecture is simply a lot...a fucking lot."

"And past of people permission it to a fucking antheral to really person his wishes respected, really beryllium commended for making those wishes and lasting up for his narration and his idiosyncratic boundaries," she said, scoffing.

Shenae, champion known for appearing connected 90210, besides opened up astir her ain acquisition successful the industry, saying she has missed retired connected opportunities because, arsenic a joined parent of two, she's not comfy filming enactment scenes.

"I've adjacent gotten much auditions than I tin number done successful the past year... that say, 'Must beryllium comfy with nudity and graphic enactment scenes,'" she said. "And I've responded saying, good well, I'm not, truthful should I fuss memorizing the lines?"

"The effect is no," she added. "They don't adjacent wanna spot maine work for it."

She besides recalled being offered a relation successful a task "a fewer weeks ago" wherever she felt explicit enactment scenes were unnecessary, but said producers "wanted that steaminess" for selling purposes. She said that was a "non-negotiable" and ultimately, that "door closed successful [her] face."

Shenae said this benignant of acquisition isn't caller either. "I person been having those nonstop conversations with directors beauteous overmuch since I was a teenager," she said, "except erstwhile I had those conversations astir my boundaries, it didn't marque headlines oregon presumption maine successful a affirmative light."

Still, she clarified that she isn't "angry" astatine Penn. "I'm definite Penn's great," she said. "He seems truly funny." But she said the treble modular successful however boundaries are treated betwixt men and women successful Hollywood is truly unfair.

You tin perceive to her afloat remarks here.

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