For Lukas Gage, Attention Is Great, But Accountability Is Even Better

Lukas Gage knows he’s an easy target. “I have an energy that people don’t totally get on board with at the beginning or don’t believe is real,” he says. As an actor — he first broke out on Euphoria and the first season of The White Lotus — he’s often played the punchable-face archetype. “People see me on talk shows or on that reality show [Keeping Up With the Kardashians, more on that later], and it can feel very ‘pick me.’”

So when he decided to name his memoir I Wrote This for Attention, he knew exactly what he was doing. The book, which started out of a strike-induced desire to channel energy into a creative project, covers all the topics he knows people want to hear about. Mainly: his very public whirlwind romance (and equally whirlwind divorce) with celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton and the time that a…