Chace Crawford Says The Gossip Girl Update Makes Him 'Feel Old'

Ever since we first noticed out that a Gossip Girl update is in the works, we've been desperate for more specifics. Nevertheless if it's specifics you're looking for, you probably shouldn't look to Chace Crawford, the actor who played Nate Archibald in the original CW series. Why? Because on Thursday's (August 1) episode of Watch What occurs Live, the actor mentioned that he has no statistics on the ten-episode streaming show, nor has he been contacted to be a segment of it.


"No one called me! I was really irritated about it," The Boys actor said before breaking out into laughter. "No, I'm teasing. It's great. You know, I might maybe come back and play a father or something." And although he mentioned "it'd be nice" to return in some capacity, he recently told MTV News that he understands nothing about what the show's creators, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, have planned. "I have no intelligence he mentioned. "I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if they're going back to the books or square one, or same characters, different characters. I haven't learned anything. So, you know, I don't know. I know Josh and Stephanie are incredible and that they'll make something amazing."


But despite Crawford's lack of knowledge about the future of Manhattan's elite, the news of the update came as a little bit of a surprise to the 34-year-old — especially since Gossip Girl's final season only ended around seven years prior. Whenever I first heard about it, it just made me feel old," he told Andy Cohen. "I was like, 'Oh my God. They're already remaking our show, that's a lot of fun.'"


On the bright side, Crawford thinks it's fantastic that the next iteration of the show will attract an entirely new demographic — one that grew up consuming content through various streaming platforms. "At the time [the original series aired], it looked like the same age and demographic, yet just almost like a half-generation later, and yes it noticed a different audience [on Netflix]," he told MTV News. "Hats off to them. That's a cool platform... I think they have these cool shows like Euphoria out there and there's far less episodes. You could probably write it more like a movie or more like a, certainly an eight or ten-episode streaming show. So, yeah, it might would be very interesting." We seriously couldn't agree more.