Chace Crawford Reveals His Favorite Scene From 'The Boys'

Chace Crawford stopped by The Rich Eisen Show and got the question every actor on a long-running cult show eventually gets. What is your favorite scene from The Boys.

His answer went all the way back to Season 1, and it is the kind of memory that explains why he, and a lot of fans, love this show.

Crawford described sitting in a van that the crew was rocking back and forth in a warehouse somewhere. The interior was being shot like a serious action sequence. In the back of the van with him was an animatronic green dolphin, the dolphin he was supposed to be saving from Oceanland. He was spritzing it down with a spritzer. The crew was working the bit. Crawford was sitting there thinking, what kind of show are we making.

He could hear people laughing at video village. He was having a great time. But he genuinely was not sure if any of this was going to land with an audience.

Then they shot the exterior. The sequence ends with the dolphin getting ejected through a windshield and run over by a semi. Crawford, driving an ambulance, described the whole thing as ridiculous. He compared it to The Fugitive, but with the dolphin.

That scene became his favorite in the run.

Rich made the obligatory disclaimer that no animals were harmed in the making of the bit, and then leaned into why The Boys works. No show, Rich said, makes him say holy you-know-what out loud more than this one. He wanted to know where the writers come up with this stuff.

Crawford agreed. Gory, graphic, hilarious. He talked about having to call his mother before certain episodes aired, specifically Episode 3 of Season 3, to tell her she might want to fast forward. His family eventually settled into a workaround. They would just skip ahead to his scenes. The Deep was fun. The blood and gore was a little more than they could handle.

Rich pulled the character into focus. The Deep, he said, is what you get if Aquaman were a sex addict with no moral compass. Crawford added a touch of Zoolander to the formula and they were both off.

That layer is part of what makes the satire work. The Boys is set in a world where the superheroes are also celebrities, contracted to cities, marketed like movie stars. The Deep, by virtue of being The Deep, has to live both lives. Crawford pointed out that some of his favorite material is the in-world commercial work the show built around the character. The Deep selling soy sauce. The Deep doing Lifetime movies. A D-list actor who also happens to be a superhero.

Amazon's marketing, Crawford said, played into all of that, and it was really fun.

The segment was short, but it captured why The Boys keeps fans hooked. The dolphin scene from Season 1, in Crawford's telling, is the bit that signaled this was not going to be a normal superhero show, and it is still the one he points to first.