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"FacebookPinterest\n\nJosh Lucas is not afraid to suffer for his art. That inch-long scar next to his right eye? Consider it a souvenir from Poseidon, courtesy of Kurt Russell and one wayward metal flashlight. In true Hollywood style, Lucas was rushed off-set not to the ER but to a plastic surgeon.\n\nPoseidon is not Lucas's first taste of Hollywood excess. He was the It boy a few years ago, thanks to high-profile roles in movies like A Beautiful Mind, Sweet Home Alabama, and Hulk, plus The Deep End, an indie film in which he proved he warranted the attention. But he kept working\u2014too many films in too few years, a mistake he now recognizes. \"Actors are violently competitive,\" he says. It's what sent him to Australia to shoot drivel like Stealth. He got hurt there, too: a concussion. \"It's still a concussion to this day,\" he says with a smile, finishing a glass of scotch at a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.\n\nAn unyielding commitment to one's calling is a tendency that runs in Lucas's family. He was raised by antinuclear activists\u2014his father once actually tied himself to railroad tracks. The fact that Lucas decided to become a Hollywood star didn't exactly jibe with his parents' sensibilities. \"They genuinely felt that television was one of the ways society was destroying itself,\" he says. Lucas has retained some\u2014though not too much\u2014of his parents' spirit. On the set of the $150 million Poseidon\u2014for which director Wolfgang Petersen built a five-story section of a cruise ship on the Warner Bros. lot\u2014Lucas requested recycling bins. \"I'm like, &#145;Yeah, Warner Bros., I want fucking recycling bins!' \"\n\nLucas doesn't have another project lined up after Poseidon\u2014intentionally. \"Right now there is a small group of people who've suddenly come into favor: Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix,\" he says. \"But I'll wait for the filmmaker that I want, who wants me.\" He cites David Fincher and Oliver Stone.\n\nA few days after this interview took place, NBC called, asking Lucas to appear in the penultimate episode of Will &amp;amp; Grace! Well, David Fincher probably isn't watching NBC, anyway."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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