"The following year, Gage appeared in the first season of The White Lotus: in one scene, his character Dillon is caught by a hotel guest standing stark naked in the manager's office, while said manager performs anilingus on him. I thought: I don't have too much to do in the show so I'd better put my mark on it big, he says with a smile today. I wanted to give people something to remember me by — and I did!"
"Gage specialises in characters whose lives are messy and chaotic — just like his own. That life is all laid on the line in his memoir, which — here comes another self-deprecating joke — is titled I Wrote this Book for Attention. Although comically entertaining, its subject matter is anything but. We start with Gage's feelings of rejection and abandonment by his father, then move on to drug use, sexual abuse, family dysfunction, addiction, personality disorders, shame, unstable relationships and heartbreak."
"What we don't get all that much of is the glitz and glamour of stardom. Gage readily admits he is at the start of his career. He has no great reserves of wisdom to share on success. So what was the purpose of writing a memoir? I think it's cathartic for me to share my story, he says over a video link from New York."
Lukas Gage first gained attention after a 2020 audition leak captured a director judging his living arrangements on an unmuted call. He then appeared in The White Lotus in a striking scene that he credits with making viewers remember him. He often plays chaotic characters that mirror his own life. He describes rejection and abandonment by his father, drug use, sexual abuse, family dysfunction, addiction, personality disorders, shame, unstable relationships and heartbreak. He acknowledges being early in his acting career and says sharing these experiences felt cathartic during the writers' strike.
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