Ariana Grande’s latest music video for “The boy is mine” gives us the crossover we never knew we needed. And it all got even better with her recent appearance on Penn Badgley’s podcast. crushed podto talk about how the music video came about.
The music video shows Badgley borrowing his role in You – except this time, he’s the one being chased. In “The Child Is Mine,” Grande claims the mayor of Badgley, Max Starling, with a love potion. The music video shows her playing Catwoman (who is very inspired by Michelle PfeifferThe iconic performance of Batman Returns) who stalks and then subdues Mayor Starling using a whip.
But Badgley’s downfall in the music video was very real, according to Grande in crushed podand everything was even easier with the help of his mother.
As Grande explained, “They needed knee pads because of course he’s doing these falls and they’re real falls and we don’t have a mat. And he says we’re doing it, but can we find knee pads? And my mom who always has an 80s look, no matter what it is, she brought out her silicone cutlets that are used for bras… and the silicone ones are the ones that end at your knees.”
After admitting that she was “dying” to tell this story, Grande mentioned that she was the one who glued the “silicone chops” to her knees for the injection.
For Badgley, it seemed to be just another day at work. “We just wrapped some duct tape around my knee and I think we did some on my elbows too. We did them on both elbows so he could really fall,” he recalled.
“I’ve had enough falls to know that the first time you do it, you think you’re fine, but you keep doing it and you get really hurt,” he added.
The fall in question occurs when Grande’s Catwoman captures him in her apartment and uses her whip to literally drag him back into her clutches.
“Those falls were great, intense,” he told Badgley on the show.
The couple also laughed at his apparent fascination with serial killers, considering he cast Badgley in “the boy is mine” and Dahmer Evan Peters stars in the “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait Your Love)” music video.
“The thought in casting Evan Peters was first, is it a serial killer tour?” Badgley joked.
Grande responded with a laugh: “I knew someone was going to say this. I knew someone was going to say, ‘Why the fuck? What is this pattern? Do we need to talk about this pattern here?’”
But she admitted that he is not entirely wrong with his observation. “I got infatuated with serial killers when I was younger, it’s nothing. I mean it,” she said on the show.
Scroll up to see Badgley’s great performance in Grande’s latest music video.
