Chace Crawford first rose to fame with his role as Nate Archibald on Gossip Girl. Now, the 35-year-old actor is totally killing it as The Deep on the Amazon Primes series The Boys. But, at one point, he came across an opportunity that might have taken him on a very different career path.
In a recent interview on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Chace revealed he was offered the chance to try out to be a Chippendale dancer.
“Blake Lively actually loves this story,” he began, adding, “I’ve never gotten to fully tell it. So yes, I did turn [Chippendales] down.”
“I lived in New York. It’s cold, I liked to work out in the gym in my building and usually no one’s ever up there, except this one guy, he’d always be up there,” he said.
Chace initially thought the guy was a trainer. “He comes up to me one day, a bit of a close talk, super nice by the way, but he’s like, ‘Are you like a model-type? Are you a model?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m kinda like a workout alone, no conversation type,’” he continued. “I’m teasing. He was very nice.”
“He asked me for some headshots, which I, you know, usually carry to the gym, but didn’t have them that day,” he jokingly said. “He goes, ‘I do this bootcamp. Would you like to try out for Chippendales?’”
He “politely declined” the offer, but looking back, he joked that he should have done it – apparently, this all happened before Magic Mike came out.
He even threw out some ideas for a stage name – American Gladiator, Turbo, Nitro, and, Champ Crawdaddy.
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