Lukas Gage is not any stranger to taking over dynamic TV roles that put him in a compromising place.
In a brand new interview with Variety, Lukas opened up about his kinky, queer, sex-positive roles and the way it’s all about illustration and the liberty to embrace ourselves really.
The 27-year-old actor did not tackle all these sex-positive roles by chance. “My hope is that [the communities] really feel seen they usually don’t really feel judged they usually really feel prefer it’s an area of intercourse positivity and sexual identification positivity.”
Whereas it is not for everyone, Lukas is all the way down to convey visibility to the kink neighborhood. “We’ve a pair folks from the golden bathe neighborhood which can be very grateful that it’s being proven on display screen, they usually have some haters who’re yucking some folks’s yum.”
“Everybody ought to really feel heard and really feel seen. I by no means wished to make anybody really feel scrutinized or just like the butt of the joke. I simply imagine that everybody ought to embrace all their kinks and every part that they love about themselves and never really feel ashamed,” he added.
Along with his racy intercourse scenes in Euphoria, The White Lotus, and now Season 4 of You, he not too long ago premiered a brand new raunchy queer comedy, Down Low, at SXSW — and it is clear he is not afraid to push the envelope.
With Down Low particularly, he feels it is “a narrative about selfishness versus selflessness and embracing one’s true self earlier than it’s too late.”
“I grew up with some folks whose dad and mom got here out later in life,” he mentioned, speaking about sexually repressed adults. “I really feel so fortunate at the place I’m at proper now, the place folks no less than are attending to a extra accepting place, that it’s embraced to be who you’re and to find and discover, whereas these folks that I grew up with, their dad and mom by no means bought to.”
“They have been suppressing all these emotions for therefore lengthy after which they get into the later finish of their life they usually’re like, ‘Shit, I didn’t stay my life authentically and embrace myself and love myself.’ It’s all about doing all that stuff earlier than it’s too late.”
Younger, queer, kink, or ambiguous, Lukas is all for it if folks see themselves in his characters. “That’s the aim,” he included. “On the finish of the day, you hope that the tales do extra than simply entertain.”
“Folks say to me, ‘Why are you at all times in wacky conditions and loopy stuff?’ But when I’ve a child saying, ‘I felt seen in that and I really feel linked to this character,’ if I’m a part of that dialog, then that’s an honor and an enormous praise.”
Learn the complete interview here.
