“Accountability is horny, and possession is the way you run away from victimhood.” What a soundbite.
Lukas Gage is on my display screen—as he so usually has been over the previous few years, along with his roles on all the things from Euphoria, You, and The White Lotus to Overcompensating, Street Home, and Smile 2. This time, nonetheless, he’s speaking to me: eye masks in place, laptop computer on his lap, and hair barely matted—the latter in an I’m-just-vibing-at-home manner, fairly than within the someone-spent-20-minutes-fluffing-it type that Hollywood heartthrobs like him are likely to put on.
We’re discussing his new memoir, I Wrote This for Consideration, out October 14, although it appears like I’m FaceTiming a good friend. In full transparency, I’m not not: Gage and I’ve recognized one another for a while now. We met just a few years in the past, whereas filming the ultimate episode of HBO Max’s Gossip Woman reboot. Gage was then simply breaking out, his buttocks having not too long ago gone viral after a scene in The White Lotus with Murray Bartlett.
On Gossip Woman, I used to be to interview Gage, who was taking part in himself, as he walked into the present’s model of the Met Gala. We have been launched exterior his trailer just a few moments earlier than strolling on to the set. I keep in mind a captivating, chill, enjoyable man who informed me to chill out and warranted me I’d do nice. Don’t get too connected to the traces, he stated, “’trigger I gained’t!” I listened and we had a enjoyable time.
Of all of the issues that made it into his memoir, our day collectively didn’t. However that’s honest sufficient—Gage has lived a life. I Wrote This for Consideration is hilarious, painful, and reflective, protecting his seek for a way of self as a younger homosexual boy, his relationship with medication and ego, and eventually getting into maturity. Above all, it’s a narrative of queer self-invention, of what it takes to make one thing of oneself.
