DailyFinance: Penn Badgley of ‘Gossip Girl’: Investing Is ‘Greek to Me’:

Penn Badgley, who plays a stock analyst in the new film Margin Call, worries about the market. He just doesn’t put money into it.

“I don’t really believe in investing,” the Gossip Girl star tells The Price of Fame. “Whether it’s ignorant or naive or clever, who knows? But I think I was vindicated a little bit with the crash.”

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WSJ.com: In ‘Margin Call,’ Penn Badgley Succeeds in Business Without Really Trying:

Regular readers of the Wall Street Journal readers probably won’t see “Margin Call” as a hardcore business flick. No, there no fistfights, car chases or love scenes. And yes, some of the talk is about risk management, layoffs and business models. But the dialogue is mostly abstract, with no M.B.A. required to follow it. (A running joke in the film, and a handy device to aid the viewers, is that the firm’s top leaders need the complex business stuff explained to them.)

Penn, who plays a young employee at the investment firm in the movie, told Speakeasy after the screening that he didn’t feel a need to brush up on economic theory and the like to play his part.

“My role really didn’t require me to do all that,” Penn said. “I didn’t have to study.”

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MTV Hollywood Crush: Penn Badgley Talks Transformation In Jeff Buckley Biopic:

When it comes to lighting up the silver screen, there’s probably no tougher challenge for an actor than convincingly portraying another, different kind of artist—and that goes double when it’s a musician. Actors looking to convincingly play these roles have to learn to play any number of instruments, vocalize like a pro, trash a hotel room like a rockstar, and—in some cases—suffer epic, drug-fueled, occasionally murderous meltdowns as only a musician is capable of. So Penn Badgley deserves major credit for ambitiously taking on just such a project, joining the ranks of Joaquin Phoenix, Jeff Bridges and Jamie Foxx as he takes on the lead in the musical biopic, “Greetings from Tim Buckley.” And when we sat down with Penn for a chat, he described the experience as not just a challenge, but a total transformation.

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Our host, Hollywood.com uploaded a video of Penn, Stanley Tucci, and Zachary Quinto interview for Margin Call to their channel you can watch below. Thanks to @ChandlerDillon for the heads up!

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