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. Lucas Till More Quotes by Lucas Till More Quotes From Lucas Till 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. Lucas Till talkingjobsideas Life's a climb, but the view's great. Lucas Till climbsclimbingviews Hard work always wins in the end. Lucas Till hard-workendswinning 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. Lucas Till visionreadingideas Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare. Lucas Till proud-of-yoube-proudproud I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect. Lucas Till work-outtryingway I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good. Lucas Till I'm not a big fan of guitar face. You know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye and it's really humiliating. You know some people have that really embarrassing guitar face? I remember thinking about this when I was doing the DJing, because... you do have to focus, and that's what happens, it's your focus face. But you're in a movie, so you should probably lock it up. Lucas Till guitareyethinking I don't really like to watch myself. Lucas Till watches My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer. Lucas Till smarttechnologymom Havok ended a chapter of my life and I get to start a new one with MacGyver. Lucas Till macgyverchapters 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. Lucas Till jargontalkingdrama 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. Lucas Till weekjumpingaction 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. Lucas Till blowfunkids I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone. Lucas Till phonescommunicationhate 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. Lucas Till agentsriskteam 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. Lucas Till impossible-thingsmoonmoving 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. Lucas Till dadkidsyears The producer and writers [ of X-Men: Apocalypse ] were kind of feeling me out with, "Are you okay with the fact that you die?" and I was, like, "Yes." That's something that people would talk about, so I thought it was cool that I died. Havok was in three movies and then I get to be remembered. Lucas Till feelingsmenpeople I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch. Lucas Till wantwatches
