{"id":264604,"date":"2026-01-30T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:55:07","slug":"consumed-with-losing-weight-for-you-deserve-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264604\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Consumed&#8217; With Losing Weight for You Deserve Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/penn-badgley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_penn-badgley_1\" data-tag=\"penn-badgley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penn Badgley<\/a> is opening up about the physical transformation he underwent for his role in You Deserve Each Other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDuring a recent conversation with his costar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/meghann-fahy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meghann-fahy_1\" data-tag=\"meghann-fahy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghann Fahy<\/a> on the latest episode of his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WLJaEq63KfU?si=X4VIUcG8_fxLPGe0\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WLJaEq63KfU?si=X4VIUcG8_fxLPGe0\" target=\"_blank\">Podcrushed podcast<\/a>, the You star admitted he was \u201cconsumed\u201d with losing weight for his role as dentist Nicholas Rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt did happen very fast,\u201d\u00a0Badgley said of joining the film, adapted from Sarah Hogle\u2019s bestselling book. \u201cI signed on right before we had to go [shoot the movie]. I was mostly consumed with losing enough weight, so it just made sense for how maniacal this guy was supposed to be about his body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe continued, \u201cThe way he is written on the page is truly, like, I should have had a shredded eight-pack. I should have had a Marvel body. And I had a real-life good body, you know what I\u2019m saying? There\u2019s a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou Deserve Each Other follows engaged couple, Naomi (Fahy) and Nicholas, who have fallen out of love and try to sabotage each other into calling off their wedding, only to fall back in love in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Gossip Girl alum acknowledged that getting toned for a role was a first for him, quipping, \u201cI never had to lose weight and get kind of ripped for a role, so I was just like, \u2018Of all things [it is for] a fucking comedy, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film also stars Natalie Morales, Justin Long, Kyle MacLachlan, Ana Gasteyer, Hope Davis, Delaney Rowe and Lisa Gilroy. Timothy Busfield was also set to play Bernie, father to Fahy\u2019s character Naom, in the film, but <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/timothy-busfield-edited-out-of-you-deserve-each-other-1236478036\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/timothy-busfield-edited-out-of-you-deserve-each-other-1236478036\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his role was edited out<\/a> following his recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/timothy-busfield-child-sex-abuse-scandal-trust-unraveled-1236472485\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">child sexual abuse allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn Badgley is opening up about the physical transformation he underwent for his role in You Deserve Each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,61918,31584],"class_list":{"0":"post-264604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-meghann-fahy","13":"tag-penn-badgley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}