About seven years ago I was living in Los Angeles, and I was on a sailboat that got caught in a really bad storm.
Always do something different. Always different things.
And as an actor, I think New York is so much more of a storm. It's so much harder; it's so much riskier.
And that guy, director Leos Carax, one of the greatest directors in the world and no one in this country knows him.
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.
Because I've been working so much, I've started to feel my friendships and life dissipate a bit, and that's really scary.
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
I didn't research my character because Ang wanted everyone's versions of their characters to be as truly fresh as possible.
I ended up spending a lot of time with a dialogue coach and spending a lot of time, a ton of time, studying romantic comedies, which I think usually suck.
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
I grew up in South Carolina where that was pretty common just to run around naked.
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.
I have Wonderland, and that same week I have this children's movie called Secondhand Lions coming out.
I just feel like I really want to be someone who literally disappears in the role.
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
I think there are moments in life where... violence and pulses of rage, and all these things that happen in life, are actually really, really rare, really built-up moments.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
I waited on a day-by-day basis to get fired because this isn't what I do and I don't know how to do it very well.
I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.
I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
I'm from Arkansas, and I was raised mainly in a little town in South Carolina, south of Charleston.
I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.
Knowing what it means to sometimes have a ton of money, and sometimes have no money and have to come up on-the-fly with something.
My instincts are not comedic.
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.
My suspension of disbelief wasn't great, and sometimes I didn't play as freely as I think I'm doing now; more, and better, and consistently.
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
Our job is to create atmosphere.
So I think it's very hard for a family particularly, to give over to watching you play a wide variety of characters.
So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.
There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.
This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.
Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.
Yeah, but still, there's a big difference between a lovely nature and a dark nature.
You know, I'm really fascinated by the transitions that happen when a father - It's almost - disturbingly, I would say - like alpha male relationships in a dog pack.
As of 2005, Josh resides in New York City.
Josh attended Kopachuck Middle School in Gig Harbor, Washington.
Josh's parents are named Don and Michelle Maurer.
Josh Lucas won statewide drama competitions in his junior and senior years of high school.
The movie Stealth was a major financial disappointment, grossing $31 million on a budget of $130 million.
Josh is an ambassador for YouthAids.
In 1994, he moved to NYC where he studied voice, movement, speech and acting.
Josh spent six months reading and forcing himself to understand Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov.
Josh started acting in High School plays.
In January 2005 Josh appeared as The Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway with Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, and Christian Slater.
Josh has three siblings, one brother named Devin, and two sisters.
Parents were hippie activists, who moved more than 30 times before he was 13.
Filmed his part in the movie Wonderland (2003) in seven days.
Josh attended Gig Harbor High School in Gig Harbor, Washington for his final year of school in 1989.
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