Penn Badgley’s real-life fatherhood journey has been vastly different than hisYoucharacter’s, thankfully.
“The funny thing is I was curious what my new fatherhood, how that would influence my experience with Joe and acting with him, and sometimes it was almost not helpful because I was having such a light and joyful experience — still am — and Joe is so petrified,” Badgley, 34, said.
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Actor Penn Badgely turned 35 on Monday, Nov. 1.Jenny Anderson/Getty
“He’s so scared, and of course I can identify with the fear,” he continued, “but he’s just so morbid in his obsessive, sort of like self-preservation, primal instinct that sometimes I almost found it harder as a result, you know what I mean? It really depended on the scene.”
Added Pedretti, 26, “I think not having a child allowed me to just come at it as a character. I think that if I felt like I had to draw from my personal experience at all that would just be … confusing.”
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“I stopped trusting my body and started to accept the fact that I was done,” wrote Kirke, who’s also mom to son Cassius Riley, who was born in 2009. “As a birth attendant, I’ve seen and heard it all. It takes everything I’ve got to detach lovingly from the losses I’ve been present forand be in my own experience.”
“When I was pregnant at 25, I knew nothing. I had no community. I dove in blissfully unaware about birth and its mysteries,” she said at the time. “Now, with 10 years worth of experience to pull from, I treasure my birth community and the knowledge I have.”
source: people.com
