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The Boys star Chace Crawford has revealed he “almost had a panic attack” before taking pictures a sex scene with an octopus voiced by Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton.
Crawford, 38, shot to fame taking part in Nate Archibald in Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012. He has portrayed aquatic superhero The Deep in superhero satire The Boys since 2019.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Crawford recalled the second he discovered that his character not solely speaks to sea animals, however that he would even be required to have onscreen sex with an octopus named Ambrosius.
“It’s so funny and brilliant now, but when that came up, I was like, ‘Oh God, how’s this going to work?’” stated the Texas-born actor.
Describing the filming course of, Crawford defined that he shared his worries with showrunner Eric Kripke: “I was in total denial about it. And then it got 24 hours out from the first day I had to shoot it and I almost had a panic attack.
“I called Kripke – he’s so great. He’s got a million things going on but his door’s always open. So I was worried about the scene. I’m like, ‘How are we gonna do this? What are the angles gonna be? How naked do I have to be?’ He changed one shot for me. And it was great.”
Asked whether or not there had been an intimacy coordinator current in the course of the scene, Crawford replied: “We have one on set. But not with the octopus. But they treated it like, ‘quiet everyone, clear out’ – a closed set.
“But yeah, just the act of picking up the octopus and getting a wet octopus in the bed was so funny and weird. And then it doesn’t come out for a year almost, and you’re like, ‘How is this going to be received?’ But everyone loved it. I saw someone at the gym the other day and he was like, ‘I’m actually going to show you this.’ And it was him in a Deep costume with a pink octopus wrapped around him at Comic-Con or something. Everyone loved it, man. I get ragged on a little bit, but it’s good.”
Last month, Kripke informed Variety that Swinton’s casting within the position of the octopus Ambrosius took place after the writers’ room determined: “We need the classiest, Oscar-winningest, British actress we can get our hands on.”
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“And that’s a really short list. And Dame Judi Dench was unavailable,” Kripke joked.
Crawford informed CinemaBlend he was delighted by the casting. “When they said that Tilda Swinton was doing it, I just started crying laughing because she must have a great sense of humor to want to come and play with us in this insane scene and give life to Ambrosius, finally,” he stated.
“And it makes the scene so much funnier and real,” he added. “She’s got this real beautiful voice, and it’s just hilarious to me.”
Earlier this week, Crawford’s fellow The Boys star Erin Moriarty silenced internet haters who criticised her appearance.
The actor had beforehand referred to as out journalist Megyn Kelly for questioning whether or not she’d had cosmetic surgery, dubbing her feedback “counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic.”
Sharing a new Instagram put up, Moriarty captioned the photograph: “Haters will say {literally everything and anything that pops into their head}. So post it & ghost it. (And sleep tight),” before turning off feedback.
Crawford posted a crimson coronary heart in response.
