February 11, 2023
Actor Lukas Gage – from Salad Tossing to Golden Showers
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Lukas Gage is no stranger to controversial sex scenes, witness his salad-tossing scene with Murray Bartlett on the first season of "The White Lotus."
This week the 27-year old actor is giving it his all with a fetish scene on Netflix's "You," which returned for its fourth season on Thursday. In it, Penn Badgley, who plays the show's obsessive protagonist Joe Goldberg, has moved to London where he has changed his identity as a professor and infiltrates a group of incredibly wealthy socialites. "Among them are Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), Lady Phoebe Borehall-Blaxworth (Tilly Keeper), and Adam, a rich American expatriate played by 27-year-old Gage," writes the Independent.
"Early on in the fourth season of the hit series, Joe discovers that Adam has a specific fetish, which means that he enjoys when members of his staff urinate on his face. Unbeknownst to Adam, Joe witnesses him in the act during episode two of the series."
"I did not know that I was going to get peed on in 'You' when I took the part," he told the Hollywood Reporter with a laugh. "I'm not, like, asking my agents to send me only roles where I'm half naked."
He is, nonetheless, been receiving plenty of roles. "Next month, he'll premiere 'Down Low' – a dark comedy he co-wrote with 'Euphoria' producer and friend Phoebe Fisher – at SXSW, and immediately after this interview, he'll fly to the set of 'Fargo' to shoot a recurring role. "I track everyone I want to work with in a notebook, and I found a page from three years ago about how I loved 'Legion' and wanted to work with ['Fargo 'creator] Noah Hawley," he says with awe," adds THR.
Asked if he had any input into the 'golden shower' scene, Gage said "I'll say it was my idea to wear the goggles. With that scene, and in 'The White Lotus', I wasn't doing it to be sexy, but for comedic value. I didn't think it was going to be hot for people. But I did want to go as far as possible. It can't be a half rim job, or a half golden shower – although we did use a water machine with yellow food coloring."
Did he have any issues with the nudity? "I guess I'm a little more European in my thoughts on nudity right now. I'm not begging to take my clothes off, but I'm comfortable with it. I want to keep a sense of truthfulness, too: If there's a scene where I'm having sex with my boss, it's gonna be pretty fucking weird if I have clothes on. Those scenes are so mechanical in their filming, anyways. There's nothing sexy about a director telling you you're thrusting weird."
He also explained that he had a cameo on Season 2 of "The White Lotus," but it was cut before the episode aired. "Fred [Hechinger] and I did a scene for season two. When Jennifer [Coolidge's character] is with the gays in Palermo, she originally opens a door in the villa and sees a shot of me doing drugs that turns out to be an illusion. It got cut because it didn't work with the show, but I didn't care because I got a free trip to the Four Seasons. And now for season three, I'm literally writing Mike [White] every day like, hey, remember me!"