Chace Crawford has never rewatched Gossip Girl

Chace told People: "In a way (Gossip Girl has) kind of become almost classic. It really was of its time, though. It was just before social media, a little bit ahead of its time in that regard. But in watching, it's very campy. I forget how kind of campy it was. It's kind of fun in that way.

"It's the music too. Before it aired, they gave a copy of the pilot to my parents, and my mom and my dad probably watched it about 20 times. Those songs from the pilot are so ingrained."

The Boys star added: "I haven't really rewatched any of it. I'd be terrified. It's a bit embarrassing."

Chace admits that, with the benefit of hindsight, he would play the part differently if he got the chance to do it again.

He explained: "As a young man, you take yourself too seriously. I think everything's so precious, and you want to be this Marlon Brando. And I think there gets a point too in a show that's popular where you get your sense of identity and who you are kind of becomes wrapped up in not just that character or the character's popularity, but the show.

"Some actor quoted like, 'Anyone who gets famous is an a****** for two years in their own way.' It can affect people in a really weird way. And it probably made me a bit paranoid at the time."

Crawford states that he would tell his younger self to "relax" more about his acting career.

He said: "I would just kind of tell myself to have fun, relax, everything's going to be okay, and it's just not holding on too tightly to your career or what you want to do and just have fun with it because you can kind of take yourself seriously."

Chace also reflected on the huge tonal difference between Gossip Girl and the much darker teen drama Euphoria.

The actor said: "And now the bar is in a different place.

"It's Euphoria, which is very dark. I watched every episode of Euphoria. I loved it. But that's such a different show than Gossip Girl. It's definitely a lot of fun. It's campy, and it's just a blast that people still connect with it and still see us out in the world and come up and say hi."