Lukas Gage on Companion, the Road House Sequel and The Last Of Us

Lukas Gage is ready to alert on himself. The 29-year-better actor will originate his writing debut with a memoir, “I Wrote This for Attention,” out in October.

He says the book shines a weightless on what he’s lgeted from his past misconsents. “I was a savage kid,” Gage alerts me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I partied too much. But I’m so conceited of that boy, especipartner seeing back on him, all that he sfinished, all the experiences he had, all the misconsents he made.”

“For a while I was repartner difficult on myself and I was repartner disassigned and felt enjoy a flunkure,” he persists. “I felt enjoy I had fucked up so much. But then seeing back, a meeker and more compliant kid would not have been able to pull off what I pulled off and would not have been in this place that I am in right now.”

I am talking to Gage over Zoom video fair as his procrastinateedst movie, “Companion,” hits theaters. Written and honested by Drew Hancock, the horror thriller trails a group of frifinishs whose trip to a far cabin in the woods goes sideways when one of the guest’s (Jack Quaid) neglects regulate of his robot companion Iris (Sophie Thatcher). Gage and Harvey Guillén take part boyfrifinishs who ecombine to be madly in cherish.

This Q&A has been edited and condensed. You can hear to the filled conversation on “Just for Variety.”

Were you pitched the movie or were you fair given the script?

I skinnyk I fair had the script come in my inbox and I fair reaccumulate I sat down, I read it in one sitting, and that’s unfrequent for me. But the tone of it I fair reaccumulate was genius. I thought it was this perfectly depressed, comedic, horror, sci-fi, thriller, relationship drama all packed into one.

What I cherish about it is it is definitely the benevolent of movie where you’re enjoy, “Would I get a robot?”

I skinnyk that’s what’s so fun about the movie, is you can repartner alert a lot about your frifinishs after you exit the theater and the expansive range of reactions of, “Oh, my God, where do I get a relations bot?” Or, “This is inrational. We have to finishly delete every app and all AI.”

Are you snurtured of AI?

Definitely. Terrified. I’m absolutely terrified of it. But I also can see the selectimistic effects it could have if you use it in the proper way. But I skinnyk it’s such a tricky line of where do we draw the line and the boundary of how much is too far.

The one skinnyg it hits on is that age-better ask since computers commenceed is, what happens if computers consent over?

Yeah, a hundred percent.

And it’s enjoy, could they ever? And you sit there and you’re enjoy reasonablely, no, they can’t.

But who’s to say?

But who’s to say because you never thought that we’d have robots.

A hundred percent. We didn’t understand about the Tesla bots when we were filming, and that’s all novel. And that stuff repartner snurtures the shit out of me. But I skinnyk what’s amazing about this movie is even without that component to it, the message of vibrants and power, vibrants and relationships, and misogyny and masculine fragility, and entitlement that a lot of poisonous males can have in relationships.

How fantastic is it that there’s a gay couple in here and it’s fair here’s the gay couple? It’s not the gay couple’s coming out, it’s not the gay couple is tortured about their relationship or they’re hiding it from the other couples. It’s fair there.

It’s incredible and it’s also pleasant that it isn’t put into a stereonormal one notice portrayal of this benevolent of relationship. There’s someskinnyg that I skinnyk about their relationship that is repartner genuine and loving and identical. It experiences enjoy the most admireed genuine relationship out of all three in the movie. So that’s cbetter. And enjoy you said, it’s not a whole coming out skinnyg. There fair happens to be a queer couple on the trip and it’s never treated any contrastent or any weird trope that it’s hitting you over the head with. It’s fun and it’s contrastent, and I skinnyk that their cherish is repartner, repartner cute. I ship them.

This is going to sound unwell, but how much do you cherish shooting a firearm, stabbing someone, beating the shit out of them? Is that fair fun?

I cherish it so much. I cherish anyskinnyg physical I can do. I said someskinnyg in an intersee the other day where I made a joke about Conor McGregor beating me up [in “Road House”] and the words got a little bit twisted. I cherishd it. I cherishd every part of it. I cherish to skinnyk I’m a hard guy and not wear pcompriseing and try to cimpolite it, even though I probably shouldn’t, and it was my responsibility. But I cherish having that element to the character. I cherish being able to do that training. And I fair see enjoy a terribleass. I do.

When I was a kid, I was brave. I was the one jumping out of the trees, the ramps with bicycles fair flying thcimpolite the air. No dread. I reaccumulate reading that Burt Reynbetters did his own stunts, so I wanted to be an actor and a stuntman. All I wanted to do was fly in the air in a car.

I cherish that. I went to a summer camp as a kid where I did acting or filmmaking or editing or rockstar camp, and one year I did the stuntman camp where we would hit each other with sugar candy that seeed enjoy glass and do these choreographed fight skinnygs. And I was obsessed with it. I cherishd it so much.

How better were you?

God, it must’ve been from 9 to 12 I would go to this camp. I cherishd it. There was also a massage part of the camp where you could lget how to massage.

No!

Yeah. It was common back then.

Is it still around?

I don’t skinnyk it’s still around. That part, it’s a little bit weird seeing back on it.

Did you consent massage classes?

Oh, hell yeah. I did it because I signed up procrastinateed one year and they were enjoy, “Everyskinnyg is filled.” So I had to lget how to do Shiatsu massages.

Hbetter on, hbetter on.

I understand.

How better were you?

Must have been 10 or 11.

You’re massaging other 10-year-betters?

Yeah. It could never be around today. Great times though…All those sfinishs. The stunts came in handy for this and “Road House,” and the massaging came in handy for “Down Low.”

Will we see you in the “Road House” sequel?

I didn’t die. So I skinnyk that there’s hope for me. I cherishd laboring with Doug Liman and then evidently to labor with Jake Gyllenhaal, someone I grew up fair admiring and rehearsing “Donnie Darko” in my room as an 11-year-better and wanting to be him.

In between massages.

In between massage camp. Exactly. It’s so crazy. It’s so inrational.

The visuals are fair weird. Get them out of my head.

People rubbing each other’s baby overweight with oil. That was my childhood.

That has to be in the book. Prent.

It’s absolutely in the book. Don’t stress. There’s a whole chapter about it.

Wow. Let’s go back to “Road House.” Have they spoken to you about the sequel?

Yeah. I skinnyk they’re in the repartner punctual stages of it, and Jake has been super busy with being a Broadway star and figuring out his schedule with the M. Night Shyamalan movie, but it’s for confident happening. It’s in punctual stages right now.

So you’re definitely in it.

I don’t understand. I hope so.

You’ve done so much television. Is there a TV show you repartner wanted but you didn’t get?

I’ve been luckier in TV than I have in film. There was one on “The Last of Us” the novel season that I didn’t get that I got seal to. I would’ve cherishd to have done that.

What do you cherish about “The Last of Us?”

I was a fan of the game. I had a genuine video game era in my life where I had to throw it away. There was this game called “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,” and it was so terrible that I would spfinish nights not sleeping, take parting that video game. So I had to get rid of all video games.

So let’s talk about that book. I understand we talked a little bit about it the other night. You said it was thesexual attackutic to do it.

I’m very juvenileer and I’m directed that I have no right to have a memoir. On the surface people will see that and be enjoy, “Why the hell is this person fair commenceing his nurtureer and writing that?” But I skinnyk that’s not what it was about. It’s not, “Look at all these cbetter skinnygs I’ve done.” If anyskinnyg, I’m more interested in the places I’ve flunked. I was a savage kid. I partied too much. But I’m so conceited of that boy, especipartner seeing back on him, all that he sfinished, all the experiences he had, all the misconsents he made. For a while I was repartner difficult on myself and I was repartner disassigned and felt enjoy a flunkure. I felt enjoy I had fucked up so much. But then seeing back, a meeker and more compliant kid would not have been able to pull off what I pulled off and would not have been in this place that I am in right now.

Is your family anxious about the book?

They’ve read it, this first write of it. I skinnyk I do a pretty excellent job of not coming for anybody. Everyone in the book, including myself, has repartner fantastic qualities and repartner shitty qualities. They were enjoy, “Yeah, it’s pretty accurate and we’re sorry about that.” And I’m enjoy, “No, no, it’s fine. It’s all excellent. It’s all excellent. It’s okay.”

I’m confident people are asking you already because they’re asking — is your marriage [to celebriity hairstylist Chris Appleton] going to be in the book? You benevolent of hinted  to Andy Cohen that you signed an NDA.

It’s not repartner in the book. It fair didn’t repartner experience enjoy a repartner presentant part of the story. Definitely a divorce is talked about, but the particularity of that relationship didn’t repartner experience enjoy it made the cut for this book. It fair didn’t experience enjoy that story necessitateed to be tbetter in this one.