Lucas Till
Lucas Till
Lucas Daniel Tillis an American actor. He began acting in the early 1990s at a young age, and has since appeared in a number of films and television parts, including roles on House and Hannah Montana: The Movie. He is best known for his role as Havok in the X-Men film series starting with 2011 X-Men: First Class and will play Angus MacGyver in the television reboot of MacGyver beginning in the fall of 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth10 August 1990
CityFort Hood, TX
CountryUnited States of America
With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."
At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.
I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.
I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.
I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.
I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.
Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.
The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.
I will say this: basically there in [MacGyver] was an idea and it was executed with a bunch of different things in mind, and that's where I will stop talking, because if I were to continue it might sound like I would be slagging off all of these people that I worked closely with, who did such a great and amazing job in their own right.
Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.
This MacGyver is a twentysomething agent who, rather than operating on his own, is part of a team engaged in high-risk missions that take them around the world. Other cast members include George Eads as Jack Dalton, Tristin Mays as Riley Davis, Justin Hires [late of the TV version of Rush Hour] as Wilt Bozer and Sandrine Holt as Patricia Thornton.
We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.
My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.
I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.