White Lotus’ Lukas Gage Shares Mom’s Reaction to NSFW Sex Scene

Giving her full help! Lukas Gage’s mother is aware of about her son’s well-known intercourse scene on season 1 of The White Lotus — and she or he couldn’t be extra proud. 

“That’s an amazing ass. Get that cash,” Gage, 27, recalled to Selection in a Thursday, March 16, interview of his mom’s response. “‘Get that bag and be dedicated.’ My mother’s cool. She’s like a cool little hippie girl. With nudity, I feel we each share form of a European vibe.” 

The Euphoria actor, who starred on season 1 of the HBO sequence as staffer Dillion, made headlines in July 2021 when an episode featured him receiving a golden bathe from costar Murray Bartlett, who portrayed lodge supervisor Armond. 

Gage then revisited the intimate act for his function on the fourth season of You — which premiered in February — when his character, Adam, cheats on his girlfriend Girl Phoebe (Tilly Keeper) after struggling to return ahead about his innermost wishes. 

Gage instructed Selection on Thursday that he’s obtained loads of help from followers after his look on each hit exhibits — however others aren’t fairly as enthusiastic. 

“We now have a pair folks from the golden bathe group which are very grateful that it’s being proven on display screen, and so they have some haters who’re yucking some folks’s yum,” he defined. “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 consider that everybody ought to embrace all their kinks and every little thing that they love about themselves and never really feel ashamed.”

The California native added that the “aim” of his work onscreen is to assist folks really feel “related” and “seen” by the characters he performs. 

“On the finish of the day, you hope that the tales do extra than simply entertain. Perhaps it’s simply being entertaining for the sake of being entertaining, or perhaps it’s an escape from no matter laborious time they’re having of their life, however to be seen in these characters, to really feel like you may join and like any person else will get it —‘I’m not alone on the market’ — that on the finish of the day is the best present that I can have on this job,” he stated. “ It’s the best praise that I can get on something that I’m taking part in.” 

In terms of his sexuality, Gage has usually been candid. When a social media troll posted a critique about Hollywood’s sample of casting heterosexual actors for queer roles in June 2022, the Moonshot actor shortly fired again.

“If Hollywood can cease hiring non LGBTQIA+ actors like @lukasgage to play LGBTQIA+ characters, that will be nice,” the Twitter consumer wrote on the time. “He has performed 4 thus far. 1 was sufficient.”

Gage, in the meantime, responded, “U don’t know my alphabet.” When the unique poster inspired the Queer as Folks alum to “enlighten the entire world” of his sexual identification, he replied, “No,” with a crimson coronary heart emoji.

The Supergirl actor has by no means publicly specified his sexual identification, however he has performed a number of LGBTQIA+ characters through the years. Earlier this month, movie star hairstylist Chris Appleton confirmed that he and the Love, Victor alum had been courting. 

“Hear, I’m very blissful [and] very a lot in love,” Appleton, 39, gushed throughout a Wednesday, March 15, look on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I really feel very grateful to have the ability to share my time with somebody very particular. Love is a extremely particular factor and, I feel, assembly somebody that you simply join with could be very particular.”

After a photograph of the pair flashed on display screen, the Colour Wow director added: “That’s Lukas [when we were] in Mexico.”

The You star and Appleton first sparked romance hypothesis once they posted photos whereas on trip collectively on the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort in Mexico. They later walked the crimson carpet collectively at Vainness Honest and TikTok’s A Night time For Younger Hollywood celebration in Los Angeles on March 8. 

Nevertheless, when discussing his relationship standing with the New York Instances in an interview revealed earlier that week, Gage opened up about his need to maintain the small print of his love life non-public. 

“In the event that they need to suppose that, they will,” he instructed the outlet. “I’m a reasonably open guide about most issues in my life, however I’ve an issue with the tradition of everybody needing to know everyone’s enterprise and nothing may be sacred. It’s a bizarre line that I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine.”