Chace Crawford Says He Felt Trapped in 'Pretty Boy Jail' After 'Gossip Girl' Ended

Chace Crawford is looking back at life after Gossip Girl.

The 39-year-old actor starred as Nate Archibald in The CW teen drama, which ran for six seasons from 2007 to 2012.

In a new interview, Chace admitted that he felt trapped “in this box” after Gossip Girl ended before landing a role on The Boys.

Keep reading to find out more…“I felt like I was in the wilderness for years after Gossip Girl, because as big of a show as it was, coming off of it as a still young guy, [I felt like], ‘Oh, that’s not cool anymore,’” Chace explained on the Good Guys podcast. “And I’m in this box now. I’m in this jail of like the CW pretty boy, who has no range. So, I felt that, and I was probably harder on myself than I needed to be.”

He went on to say that he was attracted to The Boys because it was “so out there and original and weird.”

“It was great,” Chace said of his audition. “I was so happy to have another job that I was excited about and that the character was so different from anything that I had done before.”

“But it was not lost on me, how difficult after those four years of some false starts on some TV shows, it could be difficult to find another thing. And I was really, really appreciative when this happened … after being on something like Gossip Girl,” he continued. “Not that I took it for granted, it was just so fresh and I was so young, that by the end of it, you inevitably have taken some of it for granted.”

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