Lukas Gage didn’t anticipate to stroll thus far. It’s Monday afternoon and he’s spent the morning camped out at Simon and Schuster in Midtown Manhattan, doing press for his upcoming memoir “I Wrote This for Consideration.” However the day earlier than, a brief stroll in his downtown neighborhood snowballed right into a day of traipsing across the metropolis with buddies, and he clocked over 20,000 steps.
Though sometimes based mostly in car-centric L.A., Gage is presently dwelling in downtown New York by mid-October whereas he shoots a movie for Neon, the movie manufacturing and distribution firm that’s launched “Anora,” “Parasite,” and “Assassination Nation,” which Gage was forged in. Whereas he can’t disclose particulars of that mission, he is able to reveal some secrets and techniques in his debut nonfiction ebook, which covers habit, household, psychological sickness, his foray into Hollywood and romantic entanglements.
“The preliminary chapters that have been offered have been extra present-day stuff that was taking place. The sensationalized head-turning chapters,” says Gage. “The viral video and the marriage.”
Early within the pandemic, the easygoing 30-year-old actor lit up social media after posting a video from a Zoom audition through which the director, considering he was muted, expressed judgement about Gage’s “tiny condominium.” Gage’s response? “Give me this job so I can get a greater one.”
Whereas he didn’t get that job, the actor did ebook “The White Lotus” and whereas filming the primary season, and with encouragement from castmates, he posted the video.
And the marriage in query was his a lot scrutinized 2023 marriage to ex-husband Chris Appleton, officiated by Kim Kardashian. The breakdown of the connection coincided with Gage’s borderline character dysfunction prognosis.
After these first chapters grabbed the writer’s curiosity, Gage turned the clock again to his childhood in San Diego and wrote his method to the current day. After ending the primary draft of the memoir, he solicited suggestions from household and buddies and acquired encouragement from writer and confidant Colleen Hoover.
“ Colleen Hoover was an enormous motive why the ebook is occurring,” says Gage. “She was like, it’s a must to do it. It’s important to write it, and it’s a must to do it in your personal voice. You possibly can’t use somebody to do that. That is your story.”
Gage, a self-described lover of the memoir style, is drawn to the sense of connection that emerges from the vulnerability of sharing deeply private moments on the web page. “ The locations the place I’ve felt like, ‘Oh god, am I oversharing? Is that this gross or is that this gratuitous, or is it simply too revealing?’”
Household and buddies instructed Gage that they linked most to those components.
These early reads by family members have been revealing. Family and friends instructed Gage the writing helped “perceive you so significantly better, and I do know why you’ve achieved a few of the issues that you just’ve achieved,” he provides. “It makes extra sense to them of who I’m and what led me into the place I’m at.”
Gage additionally discovered a bit about himself alongside the way in which. “I used to be actually laborious on my youthful self,” says Gage, who shares unstable childhood experiences together with being despatched to a wilderness reform camp and watching his brother wrestle with habit.
The content material is heavy however instructed with a lightweight hand and a little bit of self-deprecating humor. Gage additionally needs readers to be entertained. “I had a lot disgrace about my upbringing for some time and felt like I needed to maintain that half hidden as a result of I wasn’t going to work or folks would suppose I used to be a legal responsibility,” he continues. “Wanting again on it, I could possibly be far more empathetic with [myself], and love that child, and be so grateful that he was a little bit impulsive and brash and a little bit bit wild and took possibilities.”
Since “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” Gage has gone on to star within the fourth season of “You,” and movies together with “Companion” and “Smile 2.” His upcoming initiatives embrace the “Jail Break” sequence reboot for Hulu, in addition to a slate of rom-coms, notably the anticipated Netflix adaptation of romance author Emily Henry’s “Individuals We Meet on Trip,” out in early January. He has seen the movie, and sure, he loves it. “It gave me that sense of nostalgia of outdated rom-coms that I grew up loving,” says Gage, who can even star in upcoming Netflix rom-com “Voicemails for Isabel” with Zoey Deutch.
These newer appearing experiences are lacking from the memoir as a result of the fact of writing a couple of life that’s nonetheless being lived means the final web page is simply that: a spot to cease.
“ I’m not closing a chapter and reflecting on this life that I’ve had. I’m simply starting, and I’m gonna proceed to have slip-ups,” says Gage. “However there was an actual space of development, that didn’t really feel like a refined completed ending. It felt like a ‘To be continued.’”
