Chace Crawford says to model or act more, manage your “business” better
(Los Angeles) Chace Crawford is one of those great looking specimens that creates legions of adoring fans - as well as pockets of envious actors disapproving of his pop idol good looks. Yet, despite his made-for-tv looks, Crawford’s appeal goes beyond his role as Nate Archibald on the CW’s “Gossip Girl”. Crawford has said, ”I was never Johnny Theatre in high school back in Plano, TX. I grew up the son of a dermatologist father and teacher mother. I fell into modeling, and it provided me a chance to break into acting. It was a lot about timing and meeting the right people.”
From Plano TX to Hollywood
On the urging of a friend, he met with a commercial agents who then helped him meet up a theatrical agent. As he made the transition, he made money parking cars. When he started to hit pay dirt with roles with MFTV roles, his once-in-a-lifetime chance came with 2007’s casting of “Gossip Girl”.
Now one of the the CW's golden boys
What is Crawford’s advice for other aspiring performers? “There are a lot of people that try too hard to be the starving actor and try to be psuedo-intellectual and dark - when there is a simpler business side of modeling and acting that needs to be paid attention to and pushed towards. I know there’s a definite range of casting you have to be aware of when you start off… but it becomes bland if you get locked into just one thing. See many agents, read many scripts, entertain many projects.”
Film and more MFTV series up for Crawford
Crawford is next up in Joel Schumackers’ “Twelve” where he plays a Harvard-postponing pot peddler who gets wrapped up in the trappings of the Upper East Side.
Also is his role of reprising Kevin Bacon’s role in “Footloose”, which is still looking for a director.
