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Lukas Gage hyped up his castmates at his latest red carpet appearance.
During the premiere event for his newest film, the Netflix rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, in Los Angeles on Jan. 6, the 30-year-old actor hijacked his costars’ interviews to shout out high praise about each of them.
But while speaking with PEOPLE in an exclusive conversation on the red carpet at The Egyptian Theatre, the Smile 2 and The White Lotus star delivered quite the compliment about costar Emily Bader.
“I knew that Brett Haley was directing, who I’m such a fan of, and then Emily Bader, who is the biggest star in the world — the world doesn’t know it yet, [but] after this movie, she’s going to be,” Gage said of Bader, 29.
“She and Tom [Blyth] are so incredible,” Gage added of the pair, who play traveling friends-to-lovers Poppy and Alex in the romantic comedy.
Meanwhile, Netflix’s Tudum site described Gage’s character, Buck, as a wild child who meets Poppy and Alex during a camping trip.
“[Buck has] ditched the finance life in favor of late-night skinny dipping and mind-altering substances in the backwoods of Canada — as well as a terrifying memento mori tattoo,” the Tudum description said of Buck.
Gage told PEOPLE at the premiere that “it’s so crazy to be on something with such a huge fan base and you want to give it justice and you want to make sure that your portrayal of this character is what people envision in their head when they read the book.”
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People We Meet on Vacation is based on the 2021 book of the same name and the first of author Emily Henry’s novels to be adapted into a film.
People We Meet on Vacation — starring Blyth, Bader, Gage, Jameela Jamil, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Alan Ruck and Molly Shannon — is available to stream on Netflix.
