Lukas Gage
7/6/20262 hr 10 min
Lukas Gage (I Wrote This For Attention, Voicemails for Isabelle, and The White Lotus) is an actor and author. Lukas joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in a chaotic family in San Diego, surviving a brutal hate crime as a teenager, and being sent to a troubled teen wilderness program. Lukas and Dax talk about navigating Hollywood as a closeted actor, the surreal experience of getting married on The Kardashians, and Conor McGregor fracturing a disc in his back while filming Road House. Lukas explains how a BPD diagnosis changed the way he understood himself, how shame and secrecy can distort identity, and what it means to stop performing for other people's approval.
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First 90 secondsDax Shepard· Host0:00
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
Monica Padman· Host0:04
Hi.
Dax Shepard· Host0:05
We have, uh, an actor with an incredible story and, um, we're blessed with his memoir, which is I Wrote This for Attention. Today we have Lukas Gage on. And, uh, you know, wild story, right?
Monica Padman· Host0:18
Really wild. And he was very open with us, and it was really lovely.
Dax Shepard· Host0:21
Yes. Incredibly vulnerable. Uh, he was in The White Lotus, Euphoria, You, Fargo, Smile too, and, uh, he has a new movie out now on Netflix, Voicemail for Isabel.
Monica Padman· Host0:35
Great movie.
Dax Shepard· Host0:36
Great movie?
Monica Padman· Host0:37
Just wanna say that. Great movie.
Dax Shepard· Host0:38
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Monica Padman· Host1:24
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Dax Shepard· Host1:27
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