Director Caught Trashing Actor’s Apartment During Awkward Zoom Audition

November 22, 2020, 8:29 am

One director is looking like the world’s biggest jerk after he failed to mute his mic while trashing an actor’s apartment during a Zoom audition.

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Lukas Gage shared a 30-second video of the awkward encounter to Twitter on Friday.

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While the video only shows Gage, a man with a British accent can be heard complaining to someone else about the frame the actor has set up for his audition.

“These poor people live in these tiny apartments, like I’m looking at his background and he’s got his TV—“ he says.

When Gage realizes what’s going on, he interrupts the director to stop him from embarrassing himself further. He also does his best to play the whole thing off, telling the director that he should give him the job so he can get a better apartment.

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At the end, the director apologizes and says he’s “mortified,” before they presumably get on with the audition.

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It was a painful 30 seconds to watch, and was undoubtedly an even more painfully awkward 30 seconds to live through, and now fellow actors and entertainment industry professionals are showing Gage their support.

Yes I’ve been wondering whom the director was addressing. I doubt it’s his assistant because there’s a sense he’s speaking to someone also highly affluent who would share the horror at a tv in the living room

— Lipin Toh (@LipinToh) November 22, 2020

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Actors are often (not always but often) treated like garbage and taken advantage of because “we’re just lucky to have a job” and “we’re gonna take the job anyway” etc etc. It’s very fucked up. https://t.co/z8YbVScAW3

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 21, 2020

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And people had some less-than-kind responses for the director.

Yeah, holy shit who is this guy? What, is he afraid he’s going to catch the “poor” through a computer screen? Imagine being offended that your eyes must look upon a small apartment smh. Fuck.

— julianwelton (@julianwelton) November 20, 2020

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And we wonder why students are reluctant to share their screens. Amazing how badly people can suck. : /

— Elli England (@MissElli_FCProf) November 21, 2020

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Of course, there’s also the part where the apartment itself actually looks pretty nice.

Gage has amassed a variety of credits over the past few years, including roles in American Vandal, Euphoria, and the upcoming Angelyne limited series, and it seems apparent that he’s been able to get a decent place for himself thanks to that consistent work. If this director saw the apartments most 25-year-olds living in Los Angeles or New York can afford, he may just faint.

If that apartment is in LA he might as well be paying $2000 or more for it.

This director must be super extra rich or something. That apartment seems pretty ok for a young actor.

— JC Mounduix (@JCMounduix) November 21, 2020

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The TV is mounted that is a sign of luxe living in my book

— Kaitlin Reilly (@reillytweets) November 21, 2020

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Seriously! I’m like what… is there supposed to be a sweeping window with an ocean view behind him?

— Jillian Richardson (@thatjillian) November 21, 2020

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Doing everything over Zoom has made things difficult for all of us, and it’s not like we can all just pop down to the local coffee shop for a casual mid-pandemic meeting with a different backdrop. It would be nice to imagine that people have learned to be more understanding and less judgmental after we’ve all lived like this for over eight months, but Gage’s video proves some people will hold onto their condescension until the whole world crumbles around them. What a choice.

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*First Published: November 22, 2020, 8:29 am