Former Gossip Girls star Chace Crawford has a great time playing one of the most absurd characters on television, no matter how weird it gets — and it gets pretty weird. In an interview conducted for our recent in-depth feature on The Boys , Crawford looks back at his time so far as poor-man’s-Aquaman the Deep , from his deranged duet with his own gills to his romantic, uh, entanglements with an octopus named Ambrosous (voiced, amazingly enough, by Tilda Swinton). Did you have the slightest idea what you were getting into when you first heard about this role? No! They sent me two scenes.
It was a regular audition. [Showrunner] Eric Kripke was in the room. One scene was a confrontation with Starlight that ended up changing in the first episode.
And the second one wasn’t even in the script — it was just, like, the Deep in his therapist’s office going on this monologue about how lobsters are his only friends in the world [ laughs ]. Before I read the first episode, I read those auditions, and I was like, “Oh God, I know this guy. I just know this guy.
This, like, white-privilege, asshole, insecure guy.” And I remember making Kripke laugh a little bit. And within a week it was done.
Once we started going, they added that [sexual blackmail] scene of me and Starlight at the beginning, which is a big change from what they had. It must have been intense to realize that your character was going to plunge into such dark territory right away. Like, “My God, this is a del.
