Henrick Vartanian
Respects to Chace Crawford for making bold moves and taking a very active role in steering his career. He is headed in very interesting directions.
Remember, due to production schedule issues on “Gossip Girl,” the heartthrob backed out of the lead role in the remake of “Footloose” leaving the character made famous by Kevin Bacon.
Then, last week, The TV hunk submitted his own name for an Emmy, as leading actor in a Drama (“Gossip Girl”). We can roll with that. But how about his acting efforts and new choices?
Last year the 25-year-old played a drug dealer with a heart, in Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve” in which both him and his co-star 50 cent were quite impressive. Sorry we can’t say the same thing about the entire film.
He then signed on for a role opposite Katie Holmes in the upcoming romantic comedy, “Responsible Adults,” where the two actors get wrapped up in a cougar-pray type of a romance.
Now, in a report by L.A. Times, Mr. Crawford is going political. He is looking to take on the role of an accused South African murderer in the independent film “The House Gun,” the screen adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Nadine Gordimer.
Also attached to the project is actor Pierce Brosnan as Crawford’s father. Details about the film deal are still hush-hush, but it looks like the folks at Anchor Bay Films who brought us the last year’s “City Island,” are behind this production.
The plot for “The House Gun”: Harald Lingard (Brosnan) and his son (Crawford) are placed at the center of a shooting that kills a housemate. The family hires a black defense lawyer, during post-apartheid South Africa.
No word yet on who will play the lawyer.
Worth noting that Chace Crawford can easily ride on his devilish good looks, making serious coin, by aiming at roles in franchise movies, or finding roles closer to his Gossip Girl image, but the moves the man is making tells us he wants to make his presence known, hopefully becoming what Hollywood legends are made of.
CW’s Gossip Girl official site: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl
BNH pick: check out another great movie by Anchor Bay Films, directed by Shawn Ku: “Beautiful Boy” starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.