Chace Crawford recently opened up about a challenging time in his career after Gossip Girl ended — long before he was cast in The Boys.
On Thursday, June 12, the actor, 39, appeared as a guest on the Good Guys podcast, hosted by Josh Peck and Ben Soffer, where he admitted it was hard to break free from being typecast after playing Upper East Side heartthrob Nate Archibald.
“I think people think, first of all, they think that actors make a ton more money and have way more agency than we actually do, depending on sort of where you are,” he explained.
“I felt like I was in the wilderness for years after Gossip Girl. As big of a show as it was, coming off as a still young guy, it’s like, ‘That’s not cool anymore,’ and I’m in this box. I’m in this jail of the CW pretty boy who has no range,” he recalled. “I felt that, and I was probably harder on myself than I needed to be.”
The hit teen drama ran for six seasons from 2007 to 2012. Crawford had a few guest roles on TV shows afterward and starred in one season of the 2015 soap opera Blood & Oil, before it was canceled. However, things changed in 2018 when he landed the role of Kevin Moskowitz, aka The Deep, in Prime Video’s The Boys.
“I was so happy to have another job that I was excited about that the character was so different from anything I had done before, you know,” Crawford admitted.
Crawford said he loved getting into the dark comedy space and was grateful for the show’s success, especially after his career lull.
“That was a lot of fun. That was the first time I really really enjoyed the fan feedback from people in the streets,” he confessed. “It was not lost on me how difficult after kind of those four years of some false starts on some TV shows of like, oh, this could be difficult to find another thing, and I was really, really appreciative when this happened.”
Crawford went on to share that it was nice to experience this “journey” as an adult.
“I was very appreciative of [The Boys] after being on something like Gossip Girl, where not that I took it for granted — it was just so fresh, and I was so young that you kind of inevitably, by the end of it, had taken some things for granted.”
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