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
What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.
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.
Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare.
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 took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.
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.
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.
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.
I really love doing action and I go for it.
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.
All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.
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.
On the first one, X-Men: First Class, it would be James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult and I. I'd basically inhale, there would be a red flashing light, and then the stuff at the end of the hallway would just blow up. It really felt like I could do those things, but, sadly, I can't. It was a lot of fun; I got to play a superhero that I was familiar with since I was a kid. It doesn't really get much better than that.