Zac Efron: Ecstatic For Chace Crawford!

Chace Crawford strolls into Ill Sole Restaurant for dinner on Monday (June 1) in Los Angeles, Calif.

Zac Efron gave his approval for Chace to replace him in the upcoming Footloose remake. “I’m ecstatic for him,” Zac told Access Hollywood on Sunday at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards when asked about the Gossip Girl star taking the role he left vacant.

“We’re both in very different places and it just happened to work out,”he continued. “I think it’s gonna work out for the best.”