Josh Lucas Admits His Good Looks Sometimes Got Him “Dismissed” In Hollywood
deadline.comIt’s not so easy having movie-star good looks. At least that’s according to Palm Royale‘s Josh Lucas, who admitted that he often found himself typecast or just straight-up written off in Hollywood because he was almost too easy on the eyes. “I was thoroughly dismissed for it, frankly,” Lucas told Chloë Sevigny in a conversation for Vanity Fair. “It was like, ‘Oh, you’re an LA TV guy.
You’re a pretty boy LA TV guy.’ I couldn’t break through that door. And then it’s frankly always been a bit of a, ‘Oh, you’re a Sweet Home Alabama guy.’ I consciously—and probably did very difficult damage to my career—was trying so hard to fight against that.
I did a thousand independent movies that nobody saw. I tried to be Sean Penn in all of them.” “It’s funny to now go to [Palm Royale] and have people be like, ‘Oh, you’re funny!'” he continued. “I can’t tell you how much I yearned for years to go back and do that.
It’s actually the place I think is the most interesting and rewarding and difficult from an acting standpoint.” In Apple’s Palm Royale, Lucas plays Douglas Darby Dellacorte-Simmons, the black sheep of a high-society family who is supposedly the only heir to grand dame Norma Dellacorte (Carol Burnett).
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