Co-star Penn Badgley on playing a different kind of love interest…
“For a high schooler, I thought he was pretty adult. He has the sense to look beyond the trappings of high school and he knows that they are trappings. He knows there is life beyond and you don’t have to be so concerned with micromanaging your reputation and how others perceive you. That’s what gives him that grounding to do something absurd and otherwise nerdy, like being a mascot. He ends up pulling it off, he owns it.”


