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The 27-year-oldThe White LotusandEuphoriaactor is making fame fun again.
Lukas Gage enters, drinking water out of a champagne flute.
He pops a bottle of champagne.
There doesnt have to be a political, social statement for everything.
The 27-year-oldEuphoriaandTheWhite Lotusactor is gaining a reputation for his outlandish, unencumberedenergy.
Then he was in the news forcrashing Paris Hiltons 2021 weddingto Carter Reum.
(Everyone was having a f*cking blast.
I did a shot with [The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills] Dorit Kemsley.)
Recently he appeared in a cozied-up bed selfie withVanderpump Rulesstar Katie Maloney, sparkingdating rumors.
It drew an eclectic crowd.
But according to Fisher, nobody outshines Gage.
He walks into a room, and hes the room, she says.
Gage didntmeanto crash Hiltons wedding after-party, he explains.
A friend invited him without any context, and he was mortified.
I still pick at myself and strive too much for perfectionism, he says.
Gages lack of inhibition has allowed him to use his characters sexualities in intentional, fresh ways.
It made more sense in my head as a character.
It stars Gage as a masseuse developing a relationship with a closeted gay client.
This year hell also appear inFargoas a married man who dreams of being a pro golfer.
Im totally OK with getting nude but when I get [DMs] like, Show us your hole.
When are you getting rimmed again?
Im like, I dont think we should just be nude to benude.
I want it to be important to the storytelling.
He started trying on a variety of identities and images, hoping one might gain him acceptance.
I tried to be in a band called Reckless Youth.
I have a picture of me with black hair and nail polish playing the drums.
I was like a surfer, stoner kid.
I was always just trying to find out who the f*ck I was.
I had my audition [forAssassination Nation].
I was so prepared, I was so excited.
I was like, Is there anything else?
He was like, Who are you?
I think the casting director ran out and grabbed him to come read for another role.
So people are immediately drawn to him.
(The warmth, the hard body.
It was just like coming home, she says.)
They were like, Wait, the scripts lit.
Why dont we just take it out?
So, yes, nudity was important to the storytelling.
I want to break that stigma too.
We dont just always have to be these doe-eyed twinks.
It can be the other way around.
And I just feel even more lonely now.
It helps to be surrounded by fellow ambitious up-and-comers, like comedian Megan Stalter andEuphoriaco-star Maude Apatow.
They dont have this thing in the back of their heads telling them they cant do something.
Theyre just like, If I want to do something, I dont care what it is.
Music, writing, acting, producing, whatever, Gage says.
Gage and Stalter coped by inventing a fortune-telling game.
It opened us up to befriend these people that we hadnt met.
Having Gage as her perma-plus-one has been lifesaving in this business, Stalter says.
Its so rare to meet someone whos that talented but also just wanting to have a fun time.
Were theater kids as adults.
We just do weird sh*t for fun.
So many people were like, Why are you [taking] a limo bus to Chilis in wigs?
And I was like, Because its f*cking funny.
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