December 4, 2022 | 1:47pm

James Scully understands wherefore truthful galore radical person crushes connected his “You” co-star Penn Badgley.

“I spent galore days with him for six months, and each clip I walked into the hairsbreadth and constitution trailer and saw him, I would conscionable suspiration wistfully to myself,” the actor, who portrayed Forty Quinn successful Season 2 of the deed Netflix series, gushed to Page Six astatine the Gotham Awards.

“So, I get it,” helium added. “I understand.”

Scully, 30, did confess to feeling atrocious for the “Gossip Girl” alum, however, arsenic Badgley, 36, has struggled to explicate wherefore radical should not beryllium idolizing a convulsive serial killer.

“I conscionable felt atrocious for Penn due to the fact that helium was like, ‘That’s benignant of expected to beryllium the opposite,’” Scully explained.

“He’s doing each this enactment and I deliberation he’s precise conscious of the illustration he’s mounting for young men. He’s benignant of anxious to clarify that this is the mode you shouldn’t behave.”

Penn Badgley connected  "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"Penn Badgley plays a charming serial slayer successful Netflix’s deed bid “You.”ABC via Getty Images

Nevertheless, helium concedes that Badgley’s charisma is precisely wherefore producers selected him to play the nefarious killer.

“That’s wherefore they hired him,” helium argued. “This idiosyncratic tin merchantability us.”

Netflix precocious announced 2 premiere dates for Season 4 of the intelligence thriller/dark drama series. Part 1 of the play volition debut connected the streaming level connected Feb. 10, with the remaining fractional pursuing 1 period aboriginal connected March 10.

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Scully co-starred successful the 2nd play of "You" alongside Badgley.

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Scully co-starred successful the 2nd play of "You" alongside Badgley.

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Meanwhile, Scully’s vocation is chugging on nicely with a relation successful the ensemble cheery romcom “Fire Island.”

The openly cheery actor, who grew up successful Texas, told Page Six that helium thought helium would person to stay closeted and get joined to a pistillate surviving wherever helium did arsenic a teen.

(Clockwise L-R) Tomas Matos, Bowen Yang, James Scully, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, Zane Phillips, Nick Adams, Conrad Ricamora and Matt Rogers airs  successful  the GreenSlate Greenroom At The 2022 Gotham AwardsScully, on with the remainder of the “Fire Island” cast, won astatine the Gotham Awards. Getty Images for GreenSlate

“I haven’t felt that mode for rather a agelong time, but surely erstwhile I was younger,” helium admitted.

“In mediate school, aboriginal precocious school, I was like, ‘I conscionable person to find a ace understanding, diligent pistillate and we’ll fig it out. I’m precise fortunate that that’s not what happened!”