Chace Crawford Admits Gossip Girl Is "a Weight on My Conscience"

Us Magazine - August 5, 2008 5:19 PM PDT
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Chace Crawford says he can sometimes get uncomfortable with the racy undertone of his CW hit Gossip Girl.

"Is that a weight on my conscience?" Crawford says in a new interview with London's The Independent. "Well, yes, I think it is. I come from a moral background, and I can see the power of the show, and imagine my old school teachers cringing, or my grandparents thinking, 'Oh, my God,' when they see me, say, having sex on a barstool. But you have to remember, this is not a reality show. It's supposed to be pure entertainment."

See before-and-after photos of the Gossip Girl cast.

He says the show isn't "making an instruction manual telling [teens] how to drink and do drugs, or have sex. We're just laying out how it is.

"My character is very conflicted, and even in the episodes where he's having sex then dumping girls, there's often regret," Crawford says of his role as preppy stud Nate Archibald. "You know, there are repercussions to certain sorts of behavior that come full circle."

Sometimes he says he'll put a limit on how much skin he'll show. Recently, he convinced producers to let him keep his shirt on.

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"I never actually said I disliked having my top off; it was just that on that occasion it didn't make sense," he explains. "Nate was supposed to be waking up, hungover, on his buddy's couch. So why would he be in his boxer shorts?

"I don't actually mind taking my clothes off most of the time it's why I go to the gym," he says. "As an actor, you pick and choose your battles."

Achieving fame so fast "can be a double-edged sword," Crawford admits. "But right now, I couldn't ask for more, and I certainly never complain about it."

He says he laughed off rumors that he and co-star Ed Westwick are having a fling. (Crawford was also romantically linked to JC Chasez, though both vehemently deny gay rumors.)

"It's kind of funny," Crawford tells the paper. "I guess some people assume there's a seed of truth to it. People think where there's smoke, there's fire."

He says he wasn't sure who started the rumors and doesn't care.

"I just don't even want to speculate on that. It's just one of those things that rolls off my back," Crawford says. "There's not one seed of truth to it, so it'll just go away in the end."

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  • IngI
    really adore him !! muacks =))
    report abuseposted September 4, 2008 10:16 AM PDT
  • kat004
    why are their people who just made to make other people feel so hoooooot....and chace damn!!! ur one of them....love yah!!!!!
    report abuseposted August 24, 2008 11:19 AM PDT
  • hatzikcor_01
    i wish i could hug you!!!youre so yummy!!!!!
    report abuseposted August 14, 2008 4:41 AM PDT
  • hatzikcor_01
    i wish i could hug you!!!! youre so yummy!!!!
    report abuseposted August 14, 2008 4:40 AM PDT
  • hatzikcor_01
    chace you making me feel hell when i see you because you are so hot!!!! people who say chace is gay are just insecure!!!
    report abuseposted August 14, 2008 4:38 AM PDT
  • hatzikcor_01
    i cannot believe that they think hes gay. hes sooo not.
    report abuseposted August 13, 2008 7:39 PM PDT
  • Zoraya
    i love him, i want to bang him, chace is so friggin hot, the things i cud do for that boy!! woooo. hot piecec of eye candy he is, just like me!!!!!
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
  • Zoraya
    i love him, i want to bang him, chace is so friggin hot, the things i cud do for that boy!! woooo. hot piecec of eye candy he is, just like me!!!!!
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
  • umr...okay that was weird i do agree he was being a little hypocrite also morals sometimes can make people feel bad...and yeah...anyways he is hot and a cutie but he is not gay you people believe to much in the rumors.............idiotic people believe in rumors,but smart people believe in proof
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 12:01 AM PDT
  • AppointedSon
    Give me a break! At odds?! The young man has sold his soul to the devil. He probably thinks it's okay to continue as long as he has "morals". Yeah right. What morals? He's shown us all who is 'god' is (Hollywood, Power, Money, Sex...).
    report abuseposted August 7, 2008 11:49 PM PDT
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