Penn Badgley Swiped “Silicone Cutlets” From Ariana Grande’s Mom’s Bra To Help Improve His Stunts In “The Boy Is Mine” Music Video

Ariana Grande‘s latest music video for “the boy is mine” gives us the crossover we never knew we needed. And it was made all the more better by her recent appearance on Penn Badgley‘s podcast, Podcrushed, to dish on how the music video came to be.

The music video shows Badgley borrowing from his role on You – except this time, he’s the one being hunted. In “the boy is mine,” Grande stakes her claim on Badgley’s Mayor Max Starling with a love potion. The music video shows her playing Catwoman (that feels very inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer‘s iconic performance in Batman Returns) who stalks, and later, subdues Mayor Starling using a whip.

But Badgley’s tumble in the music video was very real, according to Grande on Podcrushed, and it was made all the more easier with her mom’s help.

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’s like we’re doing it, but can we find knee pads? And my mom who is always in an ’80s shaped look, no matter what it is, took out her silicone cutlets that are used for bras… and the silicone ones are what ended up on your knees.”

After admitting she was “dying” to tell this story, Grande mentioned that she was the one who taped the “silicone cutlets” to his knees for the shot.

For Badgley, it appeared to just be another day on the job. “We just wrapped some gaff tape around my knee and I think we did one on elbows, too. We did them on both elbows so I could really fall,” he recalled.

“I’ve taken enough falls to know that the first time you do it, you think you’re okay, but you keep doing it and you get so badly bruised,” he added.

The fall in question occurs when Grande’s Catwoman captures him in his apartment and uses her whip to literally drag him back into her clutches.

“Those falls were great, they were intense,” she told Badgley on the show.

The pair also laughed over her apparent fascination with serial killers, considering she cast Badgley in “the boy is mine,” and Dahmer star Evan Peters in the “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)” music video.

“Was the thinking in casting Evan Peters first, is it a serial killer tour?” Badgley joked.

Grande replied with a laugh, “I knew someone was gonna say this. I knew someone was gonna be like, ‘Why the fuck – what is this pattern? Do we need to talk about this pattern here?'”

But, she admitted that he’s not completely off the mark with his observation. “I was infatuated with serial killers when I was younger, it’s not nothing. I’m serious,” she said on the show.

Scroll up to check out Badgley’s great performance in Grande’s latest music video.