These days, when the name Chace Crawford comes up, his role as The Deep in The Boys – which just finished airing its latest season on the 2024 TV schedule – probably comes to mind first. However, he’ll always and forever be known for his role in the Gossip Girl cast as Nate Archibald too. Now, we’re getting a blast from the past as Sweet Magnolia’s JoAnna Garcia Swisher opened up about working with Crawford, and how her trip to New York City to make out on screen with him led to a life plot twist that involved her now-husband, Nick Swisher.
Now, when you look at the relationships in Sweet Magnolias , Garcia Swisher plays a pivotal role in them. She’s one of the show’s leads, and at the end of Season 3 her character Maddie is still with Cal. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of Gossip Girl relationships , her role as Bree Buckley didn’t play a big role at all seeing as she was only in four episodes.
However, it ended up being a life-changing job for the actress, because that’s how she met her husband. She dished about this cute story with She Knows , explaining: So when I first got asked to do Gossip Girl, I thought ‘Who doesn’t want to go spend the summer in New York City making out with Chace Crawford?' But plot twist, I ended up making out, well I did make out with Chase Crawford onscreen, but I made out with my husband because this is where I met Nick [Swisher]. For a bit of context, JoAnna Garcia Swisher appeared in four episodes (specifically, the firs.