Chace Crawford could not lose the heart status of the adolescent on which he reached Gossip Girl.
Crawford played the charming Nate Archibald in the show in the early 2000s and became an international crush.
However, its success has become an obstacle in the manner of more complex acts. It lasted years. Now the actor has returned with a completely different role in Boyswhere he plays The deep.
“I felt like I was in the desert for years after Gossip Girl,” said Crawford, 39 Guys podcast. “Because I felt, you know, as tall as that, leaving as a young man, it’s like” Oh, it’s no longer cool. “”
“And I’m in this box now. I’m in this prison of the pretty boy, do you know what I mean?” He said, noting that people thought he had no “range”.
“I think people think … The actors earn a tonne more money and have many more agency than we really do,” he noted.
Following Gossip Girl, The actor had trouble winning a granular role because the frames could not see him in a different light.
“I was probably more difficult with myself than I had to be,” he said.
Things changed when he came across the hearing of the role of superheroes, The deep, In Boyswhich is a dark comedy on the reality of having superheroes.
“I just remember that the hearing hit my reception box, and reading the synopsis, I said to myself, which seems wild,” he recalls. “And then reading this pilot, I said to myself:” Oh, it’s great. It’s so there and original and weird. “”
“In the specific role of The Deep … I know this guy. You know, I know a hundred of these guys, basically. So I immediately felt confident and excited by my point of view on the character,” he spoke.
“It was great. I was so happy to have another job that I was excited and that the character was so different from everything I had done before,” said Chace Crawford.
