| Nickname: "Mr.
Go-Get-Em" or "Gramps" |
| Born: November
23, 1984, in Springfield, Missouri, USA. |
| Trivia: Came
in 5th at the 52nd MSHSAA Speech & Debate Championships
in 2003. |
| Funny: His
favorite dance as a kid was the Hokey Pokey. |
| Cool: Lucas
also went to Guatemala on an annual basis with his family
as a part of a missions’ team for six years. |
| Role Model: Actor/writer
Christopher Guest. |
| iTunes: At
one point in early 2006, Lucas had three songs on the
top 10 iTunes downloads. At that time, six of the top
10 were from the soundtrack to HighSchool Musical. |
| Music: Lucas
played drums for a local church and initiated a men’s
acappella singing group at Kickapoo High School. |
| Dance: Memorized
the entire “Get’Cha Head in the Game” dance,
even though his character in “High School Musical” (2006)
wasn’t involved in the sequence. |
| Kiss: Was
offered a role on “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”,
but when the script called for him to kiss co-star Ashley
Tisdale, the role went to another actor, Zac Efron, due
to the brother-sister dynamic established in “High
School Musical”. |
| Movie: Lucas
landed his first commercial two months after moving to
LA, and his first movie, “Halloweentown High”,
came just a few months after that. |
| Church: While
in Rogersville, Missouri, he regularly attended Harmony
Baptist Church, where he was a part of the children’s
and youth groups. |
