CraveOnline: Is there a part you’ve had that was directly related to “someone saw how awesome I was in X-Men: First Class?”
Lucas Till: [Laughs] No! Yeah, right…
You were! You were good in X-Men.
Well, thanks man! I appreciate it. Especially because I feel like you’d be an X-Men fan.
Well, I mean I’m wearing a Galaxy Quest t-shirt. So I’m in the target demo.
There you go. Yeah. Alright. It takes one to know one. Yeah, I really appreciate that because I was such a fanboy on set. I think I annoyed other people, because I was like, [whispers] “Dude, we’re in X-Men bro. We’re in X-Men…” [Laughs]
That’s how I would be.
Yeah, and I wanted to do things that were… I kind of getting pissed because some of the things the character, basically the pre-visualizations… which I actually liked the incarnation that they did, in the end, but when I’m sitting there as a kid, I’m practicing the Kamehameha from “Dragonball Z.” I’m doing all this stuff, shooting powers out of my hands and arms and chest, whatever, and then it ended up being hula hoops [in X-Men: First Class]. It’s kind of like… [facepalm]. And then it turned out fine. There was an arc. My power had an arc. It was almost like my power was a character. That was fun. So much fun.
The only thing that confused me was I thought you were supposed to be Cyclops’ brother, and now you’re going to be, like, 40 years older than him.
Yeah, yeah, who knows what they’re going to do with that. Me and you, both.
A movie I think I have an interesting relationship with is Hannah Montana: The Movie…
[Laughs] Yeah? I would think it would be a non-existent tie…
No, no.
There is something there…
I have to see everything, and that’s one where you had the Liam Hemsworth role, in this movie [Paranoia], where you had to be, again, just “God, he’s hot.”
[Laughs] Right, yeah?
“Dibs on that.” Don’t you show up with a horse…?
I do.
Like on the cover of a romance novel.
[Laughs] Yeah!
Do you look back on that with absolute fondness?
Absolutely, yeah. I mean, certainly there’s… I think I may have just lost a movie because I was in that movie….
They thought it skewed your demographic?
Yeah…
Some Guy on the Other Side of the Room: You still got a shot.
Yeah, but just in case. If I don’t get that, I hope this interview makes it out there somewhere! [Laughs]
You can write it off.
It used to piss me off because I was a little insecure about the fact that… I was just being a dick. That has only opened doors for me. It’s only done great things, really. Every now and again I get a little smart, sly comment about it…
“Ha, ha, you were in a popular movie that everyone of a certain age and gender really, really liked.” Wait… what?
Yeah, no, no. “My sister really likes you, can I get your autograph?”
There you go.
No, it was such a good thing, and I had such a blast doing it. I was seventeen. I was treated so well. Only good things, man.
It’s just interesting that the youth demographic now is so Disneyfied in certain ways, that actors from those films… Look at what Vanessa Hudgens is doing right now, with Spring Breakers.
Yeah, yeah.
It seems like you can either work gradually and take a risk or you have play a serial killer.
Yeah, you have to dive off the diving board. Yeah.
