It’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.” Related Stories News Chloë Sevigny Found Christian Bale's Acting Process "Very Intimidating" In 'American Psycho': "I Was Just Kind Of Confused" News Kristen Wiig On Her 'Palm Royale' Character Maxine: 'We Wanted To Make Her Likable Even Though She Was Doing Things That Were Not That Likable"- Contenders TV “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-socie.
