Chace Crawford has had the unique opportunity to kiss all three of his female costars on The CW's Gossip Girl, but the 22-year-old actor had another woman in mind when he was asked who he thinks his character should eventually end up with.

“I'm thinking Lily van der Woodsen,” Crawford jokingly said in an interview with Fuse TV's The Sauce, referring to the mother of the show's lead female character, Serena (Blake Lively).  "I'm eyeballing that.  That would be great.  I'm thinking that -- the older woman.”

For those who are wondering who exactly Crawford plays in Gossip Girl, the actor appears as Nate Archibald, the teen heartthrob who is involved with Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) in an on-again-off-again relationship, but is secretly smitten with Serena.  He has made his fair share of bad decisions, but “has a little bit of moral backbone.”

“It's good to play that,” Crawford said. “[He is] so conflicted.”

Initially, however, Chace Crawford did not think much of Gossip Girl, admitting that when he first read the script, he thought it was just “typical teen stuff.”

“But after it's been going along, there's such a big ensemble cast, and everyone's starting to develop,” he said.  “More recently, the show's kind of been getting its legs, getting more in-depth and [its] like a family on set, so it's been really great.”

While Gossip Girl is Chace Crawford's first television series, he has appeared in a few film productions, including Loaded and The Covenant.  Next year, he will be appearing in an independent horror/thriller flick called She Lived, starring opposite Haley Bennett (Music & Lyrics).

“It was really fun,” Crawford said of working in the film.  “Haley Bennett plays this sort of psychologically disturbed [character].  She thinks she's thinks she's schizo, but it turns out her parents sold her soul to the devil.  It's like a cultish-type thing.”

Between working on television and film, Crawford said that he prefers the latter.

“I haven't done too many of either, but I really do like working on films more,” he said.  “There's more freedom.  Television feels a little bit restrictive, so far as the dialogue, and there's really no improv.  The scenes are a little bit shorter... So, films are kind of where my head's at… in the future. I love the show though, hopefully that lasts.”

That said, he is planning to spend the coming year furthering his career.  However, there is one thing that he intends to avoid.

“I eat a lot of McDonald's.  It's a problem,” he said.  “Big Mac is my favorite.  I try to eat healthy but they get me.”


-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: The Sauce
(Image Courtesy of E! Online)