Lukas Gage reveals how he realised he was homosexual (Getty/ Gilbert Flores)
Useless Boy Detectives star Lukas Gage has opened up on how he realised he was homosexual – and it’s completely iconic.
Whereas we’re all (maybe too) acquainted with Lukas Gage’s whirlwind engagement-marriage-divorce with Chris Appleton, the actor has not often spoken about popping out as homosexual, having criticised public hypothesis about his sexuality earlier than he publicly addressed it final yr.
Showing on the 7 Could episode of the Search Remedy podcast with Hacks author Pat Regan and The Lovebirds actress Catherine Cohen, Gage revealed that he solely realised he was homosexual whereas hooking up together with his neighbour.
The story begins with Gage revealing that he auditioned for The Little Mermaid when Sofia Coppola was hooked up to direct a dwell motion model of the flick. In the course of the course of, he was requested to inform a narrative wherein he felt weak, and the next story ensued.
“I believe I used to be nonetheless sort of closeted on the time that we interviewed,” he mentioned. “[So] I used to be like, “I’m a bit of surfer stoner boy from San Diego. So the audition was like, you need to learn a set of sides after which discuss a narrative,” he continued. “They [asked], ‘What was a weak factor that occurred to you? What was one thing that was arduous for you, or a secret you have been hiding?’
“I instantly begin bawling, and I discuss how I’m sleeping with my neighbour and hiding it from all people… my entire household. I used to be like 19, 20.”
Gage, who’s arguably greatest identified for being rimmed by Murray Bartlett in The White Lotus and being urinated on in You, defined he and his neighbour “would hearken to data and play PlayStation collectively.”
“I simply stored coming over to his house (…) and after like a month or two, he was like, ‘All proper. Nicely, I’m going to kiss you now.’ After which we dated for 3 years.”
The star then recounted one other story, including that he “wished he knew [that he was gay] earlier”, however {that a} earlier girlfriend helped him determine it out in a very iconic method.
“I sort of switched from actually wanting consideration and being an consideration whore to additionally being deeply insecure and shy as nicely. It was like a bizarre factor for a very long time. It was a back-and-forth,” he started, earlier than explaining in full:
“I actually… I swear I’m not making this up… I want I knew earlier. However I had girlfriends that I used to be obsessive about until I used to be like 18 or 19, after I met my neighbor [laughs]. I beloved them, oh my god. There was one particularly, she had a decrease again tattoo that mentioned ‘belief no b*tch.’ So iconic.
“She was like 15 and I used to be 16. ‘Belief no b*tch’ with a cash signal after the b*tch. She was forward of her time. She regarded like Lindsay Lohan. (…) I didn’t deserve her. I used to be so obsessed together with her.”
The girlfriend, Gage recounted, was the one which gave him a delicate nudge in the appropriate path.
“One time after we have been having intercourse, she was like, ‘I believe you could be homosexual,’” Gage recalled. “She was like, ‘You’re positively bi, perhaps homosexual.’”
Gage (infamously) married superstar hair stylist Chris Appleton in a star-studded wedding ceremony that includes Kim Kardashian and Shania Twain in 2023, earlier than divorcing six months later.