Giving her full assist! Lukas Gage’s mother is aware of about her son’s well-known intercourse scene on season 1 of The White Lotus — and he or she couldn’t be extra proud.
“That’s a great ass. Get that money,” Gage, 27, recalled to Variety in a Thursday, March 16, interview of his mom’s response. “‘Get that bag and be committed.’ My mom’s cool. She’s like a cool little hippie lady. With nudity, I think we both share sort of a European vibe.”
The Euphoria actor, who starred on season 1 of the HBO sequence as staffer Dillion, made headlines in July 2021 when an episode featured him receiving a golden bathe from costar Murray Bartlett, who portrayed lodge supervisor Armond.
Gage then revisited the intimate act for his function on the fourth season of You — which premiered in February — when his character, Adam, cheats on his girlfriend Lady Phoebe (Tilly Keeper) after struggling to come ahead about his innermost needs.
Gage informed Variety on Thursday that he’s acquired loads of assist from followers after his look on each hit reveals — however others aren’t fairly as enthusiastic.
“We have a couple people from the golden shower community that are very grateful that it’s being shown on screen, and they have some haters who are yucking some people’s yum,” he defined. “Everyone should feel heard and feel seen. I never wanted to make anyone feel scrutinized or like the butt of the joke. I just believe that everyone should embrace all their kinks and everything that they love about themselves and not feel ashamed.”
The California native added that the “goal” of his work onscreen is to assist folks really feel “connected” and “seen” by the characters he performs.
“At the end of the day, you hope that the stories do more than just entertain. Maybe it’s just being entertaining for the sake of being entertaining, or maybe it’s an escape from whatever hard time they’re having in their life, but to be seen in these characters, to feel like you can connect and like somebody else gets it —‘I’m not alone out there’ — that at the end of the day is the greatest gift that I can have in this job,” he stated. “ It’s the greatest compliment that I can get on anything that I’m playing.”
When it comes to his sexuality, Gage has typically been candid. When a social media troll posted a critique about Hollywood’s sample of casting heterosexual actors for queer roles in June 2022, the Moonshot actor shortly fired again.
“If Hollywood can stop hiring non LGBTQIA+ actors like @lukasgage to play LGBTQIA+ characters, that would be great,” the Twitter person wrote on the time. “He has played 4 so far. 1 was enough.”
Gage, in the meantime, responded, “U don’t know my alphabet.” When the unique poster inspired the Queer as Folk alum to “enlighten the whole world” of his sexual identification, he replied, “No,” with a crimson coronary heart emoji.
The Supergirl actor has by no means publicly specified his sexual identification, however he has performed a number of LGBTQIA+ characters through the years. Earlier this month, celeb hairstylist Chris Appleton confirmed that he and the Love, Victor alum have been relationship.
“Listen, I’m very happy [and] very much in love,” Appleton, 39, gushed throughout a Wednesday, March 15, look on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I feel very grateful to be able to share my time with someone very special. Love is a really special thing and, I think, meeting someone that you connect with is very special.”
After a photograph of the pair flashed on display screen, the Color Wow director added: “That’s Lukas [when we were] in Mexico.”
The You star and Appleton first sparked romance hypothesis once they posted photos whereas on trip collectively on the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort in Mexico. They later walked the crimson carpet collectively at Vanity Fair and TikTok’s A Night For Young Hollywood get together in Los Angeles on March 8.
However, when discussing his relationship standing with the New York Times in an interview printed earlier that week, Gage opened up about his want to preserve the main points of his love life non-public.
“If they want to think that, they can,” he informed the outlet. “I’m a pretty open book about most things in my life, but I have a problem with the culture of everyone needing to know everybody’s business and nothing can be sacred. It’s a weird line that I’m still trying to figure out.”
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