And then we worked together on Euphoria and I was sort of another actor trying to be a writer. I was in Assassination Nation, directed by Sam Levinson, and met Phoebe, who was his writer’s assistant. There seems to be a wide net of former HBO cast and crew who continue to work together how did you come to collaborate for your upcoming movie? And now for season three, I’m literally writing Mike every day like, hey, remember me! It got cut because it didn’t work with the show, but I didn’t care because I got a free trip to the Four Seasons. When Jennifer is with the gays in Palermo, she originally opens a door in the villa and sees a shot of me doing drugs that turns out to be an illusion. We lived in Hawaii for so long you start to get used to it.įred and I did a scene for season two. I think maybe the Four Seasons in Taormina was cooler: It’s Italy, but I was also only there for a week or so. Who do you think had a better experience: the first cast of White Lotus in Hawaii or the second cast in Sicily? I’ve had to use my own money before to cover that sort of thing. But the amount of money I was getting to supposedly cover living in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, was tough. I was really struggling to find an apartment in London, and then my friend Suki Waterhouse happened to be out of town. What people don’t realize about a lot of filming situations is that you’re sort of thrown in. The White Lotus and Euphoria are prestige television with seemingly luxury budgets, but did anything feel different about doing a Netflix show? I told him I was hoping to pursue acting and he told me about Emily having dropped out of college to do the same so it felt a little bit like knowing someone. He was the nicest guy ever, he was so complimentary of me even though my paintings were probably horrible. She was a few grades older, but her dad was my painting teacher. Emily Ratajkowski actually went to my high school. I didn’t have a single friend here, but I did vaguely know of people who had moved here. They let me do commercials in San Diego until I was old enough to figure out if I really wanted to do it. I sent out headshots and met with a bunch of agents behind my parents’ back when I was 9 - I literally googled ‘child agencies in L.A.’ - but they all called my mom. What was your experience getting into the business?Īs a kid I really wanted to act. There’s nothing sexy about a director telling you you’re thrusting weird. Those scenes are so mechanical in their filming, anyways. I want to keep a sense of truthfulness, too: If there’s a scene where I’m having sex with my boss, it’s gonna be pretty fucking weird if I have clothes on. I’m not begging to take my clothes off, but I’m comfortable with it. I guess I’m a little more European in my thoughts on nudity right now. It can’t be a half rim job, or a half golden shower - although we did use a water machine with yellow food coloring.ĭo you have any shyness to get over, in that regard? I didn’t think it was going to be hot for people. With that scene, and in The White Lotus, I wasn’t doing it to be sexy, but for comedic value. I’ll say it was my idea to wear the googles. It probably makes sense to ask, first, if you have anything more to share about that golden shower scene. “But looking back, I do think I felt I had to wash that part of my life away.” He recently spoke to THR about the next phase of his career. “In the moment itself, I don’t think it was an intentional reaction to what happened,” he says. We’re sitting over flat whites in a cafe near his apartment, a purchase he allowed himself after his breakout on The White Lotus - and, shortly after he went viral for a director’s crass hot-mic judgment of his rental (“These poor people live in these tiny apartments”) during a Zoom audition. Gage, who grew up in Encinitas, California, is discussing his flourishing career with an eye toward the past. “I track everyone I want to work with in a notebook, and I found a page from three years ago about how I loved Legion and wanted to work with Noah Hawley,” he says with awe. Next month, he’ll premiere Down Low - a dark comedy he co-wrote with Euphoria producer and friend Phoebe Fisher - at SXSW, and immediately after this interview, he’ll fly to the set of Fargo to shoot a recurring role. In You, Gage plays a haughty London trust-funder who becomes a nemesis of Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg. Lukas Gage Confirms Relationship With Chris Appleton, Says He's "Very Much in Love"
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