Chace Crawford Admits He “Was Worried” About ‘The Boys’ Octopus Sex Scenes: “I Almost Had A Panic Attack”

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More than a decade later, Chace Crawford has made quite the onscreen leap from locking lips with Serena van der Woodsen. The Boys star admitted he “would have” had second thoughts about joining the show if he’d known about his aquatic superhero character The Deep’s sexual relationship with octopus Ambrosius (voiced by Tilda Swinton) on season 4 of the Prime Video series. “It’s so funny and brilliant now, but when that came up, I was like, ‘Oh God, how’s this going to work?'” Crawford told Rolling Stone.

He also detailed how the intimate scenes were devised by showrunner Eric Kripke, recalling being “in total denial about it” the first time he had to film a sex scene with the sea creature in the infamous season 3 episode ‘Herogasm’. “And then it got 24 hours out from the first day I had to shoot it and I almost had a panic attack,” said Crawford. “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.” Crawford noted the show has an intimacy coordinator for sex scenes, “but not with the octopus,” adding: “But they treated it like, ‘quiet everyone, clear out’ —  a closed set.