They sent me two scenes.
It was a regular audition.
[Showrunner] Eric Kripke was in the room.
“The first day I had to shoot it, I almost had a panic attack,” Chace Crawford says of his octopus love scenes as the Deep.Prime Video
One scene was a confrontation with Starlight that ended up changing in the first episode.
I just know this guy.
This, like, white-privilege, asshole, insecure guy.
And I remember making Kripke laugh a little bit.
And within a week it was done.
This is a really big deal.
Oh man, this could be like a negative thing.
I was a little bit nervous.
Cause Im [pressuring Starlight into oral sex] and then Im saving a dolphin.
Im like, Tonally, how is that gonna shift?
Ive talked to a lot of people who say youre their favorite character on the show.Really?
That makes my day.
I called Kripke hes so great.
Hes got a million things going on but his doors always open.
So I was worried about the scene.
Im 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.
Did you have an intimacy coordinator with the octopus?We have one on set.
But not with the octopus.
But they treated it like, quiet everyone, clear out a closed set.
But everyone loved it.
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 its good.
The Deep has done terrible things, but there are moments where we feel empathy for him.
It goes back to the gills thing.
He was teased mercilessly and felt like a total freak.
Its a pathetic self-victimization place for him.
But at least when hes rescuing the animals, hes trying.
He always fucks it up, but hes trying.What have you observed of Antonys process as Homelander?
He is so often called upon to be so scary in your presence.
Its pretty powerful, actually.
Hes taught me a lot, because he takes it so seriously, in the best way possible.
He cares the most out of anyone in the room about nailing it.
To that degree, he can be intense.
Theres an intensity there working with him sometimes.
He always talks about how he has to really memorize the lines in advance.
I see him doing that on set.
Then Ill watch him on his close-up, and then the guns come out.
Hes is on fire when hes in close-up.
So Is the Actor Who Plays Him
Are any of you guys Method between takes?Not at all.
Hes cracking up at his Kiwi accent.
No one on set is Method, and hes not like that at all.
How do you keep from slipping into cartoonishness?They probably save me in the edit sometimes.
I was really nervous, though, because obviously its just me sitting there.
He has to start breaking down and singing You Are So Beautiful to his gills.
And the singing was pretty funny.
There was a guy off-camera singing with me as the gills.
And were trying to harmonize.
Hed be saying to me, like, What show is this, man?
What are we doing?
Or is that less fun, actually?Its less fun.
Its less fun for me.
Hes got his comeuppance a little bit, but hes obviously not redeemed.
So there was an archetype that you were able to draw upon.Absolutely.
So its great to be able to showcase such a different side, a different range.
It dovetails oddly sometimes with whats going on in the real world.
This season, there are more parallels with whats happening, as an election year.
I think some people get it, and some people dont, right?
I think some people dont really understand the satire of it at times.
But thats just what it is.
You cant really control what people want to believe about it.
But yeah, its always been an interesting fun-house mirror to whats been going on.
They were testing a bunch of people that time, probably 10 to 12, maybe more.
But then they were like, Hes on a TV show?
Wait, hes contracted on a TV show?
They had no idea.
That kind of killed it last minute.
But I guess they had a screen-test suit made.I was probably too young at the time, too.
