‘I Definitely Had the Impulse to Lie’: Lukas Gage on His New Memoir, ‘I Wrote This for Attention’

“Accountability is sexy, and ownership is how you run away from victimhood.” What a soundbite.

Lukas Gage is on my screen—as he so often has been over the last few years, with his roles on everything from Euphoria , You, and The White Lotus to Overcompensating , Road House , and Smile 2 . This time, however, he’s talking to me : eye mask in place, laptop on his lap, and hair slightly disheveled—the latter in an I’m-just-vibing-at-home way, rather than in the someone-spent-20-minutes-fluffing-it style that Hollywood heartthrobs like him tend to wear.

We are discussing his new memoir, I Wrote This for Attention , out October 14, though it feels like I’m FaceTiming a friend. In full transparency, I’m not not : Gage and I have known each other for some time now. We me