Chace Crawford could not throw the state of teenage pinks in which he achieved Gossip Girl.
Crawford played the lovely Nate Archibald in the show of the early 2000s and became an international crush.
However, its success became an obstacle on the path of more complex action roles. This continued for years. Now, the actor has returned with a completely different role in The boysWhere he plays Sea.
“I felt that I was in the desert for years after Gossip Girl,” said Crawford, 39, in the Good guys podcast. “Because I felt, you know, a show as big as it was, leaving him as a young boy, it’s like, ‘oh, that’s not great’.”
“And now I’m in this box. I’m in this jail like CW’s beautiful boy, do you know what I mean?” He said, noting that people thought he had no “rank.”
“I think people think … actors earn much more money and have much more agency we really have,” he said.
Following Gossip Girl, The actor fought to get a sandy role since executives could not see it in a different light.
“I was probably harder with myself than I needed to be,” he said.
Things changed when he found the audition for the role of superheroes, Sea, in The boyswhich is a dark comedy about the reality of having superheroes.
“I just remember that audition by hitting my entrance tray and reading the synopsis, I thought, that sounds wild,” he recalled. “And then reading this pilot, I thought: ‘Oh, this is very great. This is so original and original and strange.'”
“In the specific role of the deep … I know that guy. You know, I know that hundreds of those guys, basically. Then, instantly I felt safe and excited about my opinion about the character,” he sprouted.
“It was great. I was so happy to have another job that was excited and that the character was so different from anything he had done before,” concluded Chace Crawford.
