Lukas Gage
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dak Shepherd. I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hi. We have an actor with an incredible story and we're blessed with his memoir, which is I wrote this for attention. Today we have Lucas Gay John and, you know, wild story, right?
Really wild. And he was very open with us and it was really lovely.
Yes. Incredibly vulnerable. He was in The White Lotus, Euphoria, You, Fargo, Smile Too. And he has a new movie out now on Netflix, Voicemail for Isabel.
Great movie. Great movie? I was going to say that. Great movie.
Great. Please enjoy Lucas Gage.
He's an obnoxious man.
Love your outfit.
You smell really good. Do I smell good? Yeah, you do. You do. Was I so weird to you at that barbecue on Sunday? Oh, no. Let's start with me apologizing to you. No, I apologize. I feel weird. No, pull your microphone. Let's start. This is already exciting. So you and I were both at a party. Yeah. On Sunday.
How did Lukas Gage navigate his early acting career?
You want to out who it was? We love him. Oh, Phineas. Okay. Phineas's party. Yeah. And you were there and we said hi to each other and you said, oh, I'm doing the show this week. And I said, I know I'm really excited. Yeah. And then I was like, I got to get the fuck away from this guy immediately because I don't want to talk to you and discover a bunch of fun stuff about you and then have to replicate that today. And then I left the party. I was even talking to Ryan. Do you know Ryan Hansen? Do you know that actor? I know who he is, but I saw you with him. Yeah. We then were together the rest of the day and I was just the whole day. I was like, I'm so worried that Lucas thinks I'm a dick, but I just was so like, I don't want to blow our wad.
I'm really glad you made that move because then, yeah, this whole episode would have just been repeats.
That's what I felt, though. I was spiraling that I felt like I was being a dick to you. Oh, no. You talked to Kristen a bunch, right? Yeah. Kristen was great. She was so lovely. And then I was like, I need to like make up for being so weird about like that. I was holding a taco and I didn't shake your hand because I had a taco in my hand. Oh no, I didn't notice any of that. I was hyper aware that I didn't want to blow my load before our podcast. And then I realized later. It was very mutual. Okay, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm so glad. I was neurotic about the fact that you're like, what a dick. Like, hey, I'm doing your show this week. And I'm like, cool. See you later. That's what it felt like. No one wanted to just say, like, we shouldn't talk because we're going to have to save it.
Everyone felt too scared. I probably should have just said that. I don't even know that I connected what my impulse was until after the fact. Okay. Like, I don't even know if in that moment I knew. I don't think I did either. Yeah. I thought about it later. I was like, maybe that's why I was so awkward with him. I was so aware. And I feel like I have this weird parasocial relationship with you guys because I've listened to your podcast. Oh, that's so nice. Oh, we love that. Oh, that's so flattering. It's a weird kind of balancing act of like, do I talk to them before? Do I tell them that I'm, I don't know.
I love that.
I'm glad we had the same experience. Yes. And you know, what's really funny, Lucas, is that we've had guests arrive like really early and they've been neurotic about not wanting to talk to me. And I have said to them, don't worry, we'll have plenty. Like, you don't need to worry about blowing. Even Letterman kept going like, oh,
Let's get inside. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. He is. Letterman was like worried we were going to blow stuff.
Well, he's the master of conversation.
Of course.
So he knows.
Yeah. He knows. But also it's Dave Letterman. I bet we'll be fine. Yeah. It's nice to know even he has those anxieties. Isn't it comforting? That is comforting. Yeah. All of us are terribly insecure. So insecure. Well, your wife made me feel a lot better about it. I talked to her about my insecurity about it. She told me that she had a very nice chat with you. She was lovely. yeah and i think she told me she said like oh well don't worry dex will make sure you're fine you didn't say that and i will she was very sweet and then she was like crocheting the coolest thing i've ever seen in my life oh i know she's making like a bandana thing point yeah it's like really intricate though i know she'll also do that like on a roller coaster right there's no place she won't be yeah she could be on the back of a motorcycle and she would be doing it i really
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–1:18
2
How did Lukas Gage navigate his early acting career?
1:18–5:46
3
What traumatic experiences shaped Lukas's identity?
5:46–11:21
4
How did Lukas's relationship with his family impact him?
11:21–1:03:00
5
What emotions does Lukas express about love and acceptance?
1:03:00–1:03:23
6
How does Lukas describe his experience with attention and acting?
1:03:23–1:03:41
7
What challenges does Lukas face regarding his identity?
1:03:41–1:03:59
8
How does Lukas's perspective on relationships change over time?
1:03:59–2:09:31