“The bedroom is a state of mind: he has a very specific kind of idea of prey, and he refuses to admit that he is a predator,” he noted. “That was super important, I think, that he wouldn’t meet his end in a cage, as probably people were expecting, but for him to meet his end… The process begins in bed, in a state of undress, where, for the first time, I think you see him engaging in the act and you don’t want it to happen.”
In fact, Penn explained to Tudum that Joe is so fixated on the notion of love that he’d rather die than go to prison because he realizes “there’s no plausible scenario where he gets to have the life and love that he’s fantasized about.”
“I think it really dethroned him there and deconstructed him, and that’s what was important to me,” he told the outlet. “His currency was being this romantic sexual icon, which is what allowed him to do what he did for so long. So I was very happy with that.”
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