Lukas Gage On Portraying Intercourse-Constructive Characters On TV

In a brand new interview with Selection, Lukas opened up about his kinky, queer, sex-positive roles and the way it’s all about illustration and the liberty to embrace ourselves actually.

The 27-year-old actor did not tackle all these sex-positive roles by chance. “My hope is that [the communities] really feel seen and so they don’t really feel judged and so they really feel prefer it’s an area of intercourse positivity and sexual id positivity.”

Whereas it is not for everyone, Lukas is all the way down to deliver visibility to the kink group. “Now we have a pair folks from the golden bathe group which might be very grateful that it’s being proven on display screen, and so they have some haters who’re yucking some folks’s yum.”

“Everybody ought to really feel heard and really feel seen. I by no means needed to make anybody really feel scrutinized or just like the butt of the joke. I simply consider that everybody ought to embrace all their kinks and all the pieces 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 lately premiered a brand new raunchy queer comedy, Down Low, at SXSW — and it is clear he isn’t afraid to push the envelope.

With Down Low specifically, 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 mother and father 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 at the very least are attending to a extra accepting place, that it’s embraced to be who you’re and to find and discover, whereas these those that I grew up with, their mother and father by no means received to.”

“They have been suppressing all these emotions for therefore lengthy after which they get into the later finish of their life and so they’re like, ‘Shit, I didn’t reside 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 purpose,” he included. “On the finish of the day, you hope that the tales do extra than simply entertain.”

“Individuals say to me, ‘Why are you all the time 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.”