United Kingdom, Sept. 26 -- Penn Badgley was left "humpin' on the air" while shooting a sex scene on his own amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 38-year-old actor was filming a scene for You season three where his character Joe Goldberg got intimate with wife Love (Victoria Pedretti) but was fantasising about someone else but both social distancing requirements and stylistic choices meant he shot the footage without his co-star being present.

In excerpt from Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age, published by Vulture, Penn recalled: "Mid-pandemic, early 2021: I'm filming the third season of my very popular, very beloved, very, very great Netflix series You, in which there are quite a few intimacy scenes, as we call them in the ...