Penn Badgley channeled his interior Captain America to organize for his newest position.

The Gossip Lady alum has revealed that he took inspiration from an extended line of Marvel actors and hit the fitness center to organize for an upcoming film. However imagine it or not, the position in query didn't require tights, spandex, or any form of superheroics. Badgley was really getting buff for his position as Dr. Nicholas Rose within the upcoming adaptation of Sarah Hogle's You Deserve Every Different.

"It occurred very quick," Badgley instructed costar Meghann Fahy on the Thursday, Jan. 29 episode of his Podcrushed podcast. "I signed on proper earlier than we needed to go [shoot the movie]. I used to be largely consumed with shedding sufficient weight, so it simply made sense for a way maniacal this man was speculated to be about his physique."

He defined, "The best way he’s written on the web page is actually, like, I ought to have had a shredded eight-pack. I ought to have had a Marvel physique. And I had like a real-life good physique, you already know what I'm saying? There's a distinction."

Badgley is ready to star as dentist Nicholas Rose: a secure, unfailingly well mannered and all-around good man who Fahy's Naomi Westfield is days away from marrying. The issue? Each the bride and groom are enduring a severe case of chilly ft after realizing that they really despise each other. So naturally, they start competing to sabotage the marriage, within the hopes of getting the opposite name it off.

Shortly shedding weight and getting buff for a job was a primary for Badgley — and the irony of the venture wasn't misplaced on him. "I by no means needed to shed pounds and get form of ripped for a job, so I used to be identical to, 'Of all issues [it is for] a f—ing comedy, after all," he joked.

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Other than giving Dr. Nicholas the physique he deserves, Badgley stated he additionally ready by placing numerous thought into the connection dynamic between the poisonous couple.

"It was essential to me, like, 'How are we going to make the primary 15 pages work in order that the remainder of it’s easy crusing?'" he recalled. "It’s like, 'Why do these two folks get collectively? Why are they so insanely, loopy aggressive and gained’t surrender this insane recreation, which is the engine of the entire comedic machine [and] the entire story?'"

He identified that if the story didn't make sufficient emotional sense from the beginning, then viewers wouldn't "need to watch previous" these opening moments.

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Along with Fahy and Badgley, the rom-com additionally stars Natalie Morales, Justin Lengthy, Kyle MacLachlan, Ana Gasteyer, Hope Davis, Delaney Rowe, and Lisa Gilroy. Embattled actor Timothy Busfield was additionally set to look within the film, however Amazon MGM introduced plans to digitally take away his character after the actor was charged with baby sexual abuse. Busfield was enjoying Bernie, the daddy of Fahy's character.

You Deserve Every Different, which wrapped filming final yr, has but to announce a launch date.

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