Lukas Gage "Tiny Apartment" Video

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Lukas Gage "Tiny Apartment" Video refers to a viral video of an unidentified film director caught on a video call recording mocking actor Lukas Gage's apartment.

Origin

On November 20th, 2020, actor Lukas Gage published a video of a Zoom call with an unidentified director. In the video, the director can be heard saying, "These poor people live in these tiny apartments like I’m looking at his, you know, background and he’s got his TV and his, you know."

Gage responded, "I know it’s a shitty apartment. That’s why give me this job so I can get a better one."

Gage later posted the interview on Twitter. He captioned the video, "psa if youre a shit talking director make sure to mute ur shit on zoom mtgings." The tweet received more than 9 million views, 285,000 likes and 32,000 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below).

psa if youre a shit talking director make sure to mute ur shit on zoom mtgings pic.twitter.com/PTgMZcRhEw

— lukas gage (@lukasgage) November 20, 2020

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People responded positively to the video. Actor Zelda Williams shared the video and wrote,^[1] "Since @lukasgage is going viral on film twitter for being the graceful, quick-thinking sweetheart he is, I’d like to add for any (non-asshole) director’s looking that he’s also a delight to work with, funny, talented and a blast on set. Hire this man!" The tweet received more than 14,000 likes and 800 retweets in less than one week (shown below, left).

Director Judd Apatow tweeted,^[2] "As a young man I would have dreamed of an apartment like this one. Look at that sweet flat screen! The guitar! The moldings!" The tweet received more than 18,000 likes and 500 retweets in less than one week (shown below, center).

Twitter user @itskeyon tweeted,^[3] "yeah i think I would’ve cried this is so mean." The tweet received more than 30,000 likes and 1,200 retweets in less than one week (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the video, including Yahoo,^[4] NBC,^[5] Deadline,^[6] NME,^[7] Mashable ^[8] and more.

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