Chace Crawford Explains Why He Would 'Be Terrified' to Re-Watch 'Gossip Girl' Today

Chace Crawford is looking back at his time on Gossip Girl and the show’s last impact.

In a new interview, the 39-year-old actor admitted that he never could have imagined the “cultural relevance” the show would continue to have all these years later.

Keep reading to find out more…“In a way [Gossip Girl has] kind of become almost classic,” Chace told People. “It really was of its time, though. It was just before social media, a little bit ahead of its time in that regard. But in watching, it’s very campy. I forget how kind of campy it was. It’s kind of fun in that way.”

“It’s the music too,” he continued. “Before it aired, they gave me a copy of the pilot to my parents, and my mom and dad probably watched it 20 times. Those songs from the pilot are so ingrained.”

While he admitted he hasn’t “really re-watched any of it,” Chace joked, “I’d be terrified. It’s a bit embarrassing.”

“As a young man, you take yourself too seriously,” he explained. “I think everything’s so precious, and you want to be this Marlon Brando. And I think there gets a point too in a show that’s popular where you get your sense of identity and who you are kind of becomes wrapped up in not just that character or the character’s popularity, but the show.”

“Some actor quoted like, ‘Anyone who gets famous is an a–hole for two years in their own way.’ It can affect people in a really weird way. And it probably made me a bit more paranoid at the time,” Chace continued, noting all the fans and camera phones that would hoard the actors on set.

When asked what advice he would give to his younger self, Chace said, “I would just kind of tell myself to have fun, relax, everything’s going to be okay, and it’s just not holding on too tightly to your career or what you want to do and just have fun with it because you can kind of take yourself seriously.”

In another recent interview, Chace admitted he felt trapped in “pretty boy jail” when Gossip Girl ended.