How EW shot Penn Badgley's creepy-sexy digital cover for YOU
Photo shoots, like most creative ideas, don’t usually go according to plan. And that’s usually for the best.” and ended up with “sort of a dementedis uncommonly, unnervingly charming — no matter how many people he kills, right around the corner will be another sweet, almost-but-not-quite cloying romantic moment that makes you swoon.
“We wanted to walk the line between showing Penn as himself while letting his character add some not so subtle twists,” Leibowitz says. “We began with the idea of blood on glass, similar to the cage in the bookstore. From there, determining how to reveal Penn was the key, and we decided on a squeegee for the dramatic lines it created in the composition. We also loved mixing flowers and blood, especially the graphic nature of blood dripping from the flowers.
“Penn’s ability to make subtle adjustments in his character and expression is one of the things that makes him such an incredible actor,” Leibowitz says. “During the shoot, I spoke with him about specific actions and nuanced directions — he nailed all of them.” This was Leibowitz’s first shoot for EW, but he’s well-versed in motion portraiture. “You need more than ‘the moment’ that you capture in a photograph,” he explains, “so as we are concepting each idea, we always look to create a narrative arc within the talent’s actions. The idea is to have a start, middle, and end for each of the moving portraits, just like you would in a longer narrative piece.
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