Isabel Lucas Heels

Isabel Lucas Heels

By Mark Jacobs

Photographed by
Craig McDean

October 23, 2011

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My family laughed when they heard I was going to be in Transformers. I learned a lot and got to experience Michael Bay’s mayhem. Isabel Lucas
Actress Isabel Lucas was raised on Aboriginal land in her native Australia, and also in Switzerland, before being discovered at a flea market in Cairns, Australia, not far from the Great Barrier Reef. She entered the star market in 2003 at age 18, playing Tasha Andrews on the infamously beachy Australian mega–soap opera Home and Away , a virtual feeder for Australian acting talent, and it wasn’t long before her elevated cheekbones and unusual backstory were routinely exciting Hollywood casting agents. She landed roles in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and in the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific , and relocated to Los Angeles.
Nevertheless, Lucas says she didn’t know what an agent was until she was approached by one, and she was never interested in being photographed—by glossier magazines or the tabloids that have fixated less on her performances than on her personal life, particularly after she was identified as her Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf’s passenger when his truck flipped in 2008, famously crushing his hand. The earthy 26-year-old, though, isn’t a reluctant star-on-the-rise and, in addition to acting, has been busy focusing on other projects: She has worked as a community volunteer in Namibia for two months and in 2010 hiked Mount Kilimanjaro with Elizabeth Gore, Jessica Biel, Alexandra Cousteau, and Lupe Fiasco to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis; she also made international news in 2007 when she joined a wet-suited Hayden Panettiere and about 30 surfers in the water off the coast of Japan to protest dolphin hunting.
This month, Lucas co-stars in Immortals, a lavish 3D production directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Kellan Lutz, and Mickey Rourke, in which Lucas plays a young Athena—a goddess, naturally. She, though, naturally has more Topanga Canyon leanings, and looked the part at last spring’s Coachella festival alongside her boyfriend, musician Angus Stone of the folksy duo Angus & Julia Stone. She prefers flats to heels, but wears both astoundingly well.
MARK JACOBS: I understand you grew up with a lot of animals.
ISABEL LUCAS: We had horses, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, turtles, lizards, quails, budgies, mice . . . I’m trying to remember everything. I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It’s where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience. I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years. My best friend was Aboriginal.
Jacobs: What did your parents do that they could offer you that kind of experience?
Lucas: Dad was a farmer, and when my older sister Nina and I were born, he became a pilot. Mom worked with autistic children. We ended up moving for Dad’s work. We spent a lot of time in nature, but we did live in cities like Melbourne as well. When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom’s side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That’s where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean. We had a paddock, and I would take the horses to swim in the creek.
Jacobs: Cut to Michael Bay teaching you to run in high heels.
Lucas: [ laughs ] In between, I spent a good amount of time just traveling. I’ve spent months living in Africa and India. So it’s not like I was sheltered when I started living in America. But my family laughed when they heard I was going to be in Transformers . I learned a lot and got to experience Michael Bay’s mayhem. It was a very colorful experience.
Jacobs: You got your start on Home and Away. What should Americans know about the show?
Lucas: It’s a TV drama that’s been running for something like 25 years. It’s a well-oiled machine and a great beginning for a lot of young actors—Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, and Guy Pearce have all cycled through it. It’s based in a small town next to a beach where a lot of the kids are surfers. It’s very typical Australian.
Jacobs: And now you’re also one of its successful graduates. Are you a huge deal in Australia?
I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean. Isabel Lucas
Lucas: I don’t think so. It wouldn’t be very eloquent of me to say, “Yeah!” [ laughs ]
Jacobs: Would you be stopped in a market?
Lucas: It’s on in everyone’s living room at seven o’clock every night, Monday through Friday. So people just recognize you whether they watch the show or not.
Jacobs: Were the bodies on the Immortals set completely absurd? I imagine it was something like an Olympic Village.
Lucas: Um, yeah. Gosh. Henry Cavill was training for months before doing this film and the gods as well. All except for me. It wasn’t Tarsem’s vision for Athena to be muscular so I didn’t have to train physically for Immortals , but the guys definitely did. I just had to train for the choreographed fights at the end of the film. All that masculinity! Freida Pinto and I were pretty much the only females in the cast, and it was good for us to have that feminine bonding energy.
Jacobs: What is the key to embodying a Greek goddess?
Lucas: Growing up, my mom would actually read to my sister and I about the Greek goddesses, so I revisited a lot of those mythological stories. Athena was a very powerful woman, but Tarsem really encouraged me not to play her with that serious, stoic type of energy that we know from history. He wanted her to be cautious and gentle, a lot more feminine, which surprised me at first.
Jacobs: Tarsem was interviewed with you at WonderCon wearing a T-shirt that read, “I’ve been media trained.” What does that shirt tell us about him?
Lucas: That’s Tarsem in a nutshell. He has a really wonderful sense of humor. Actually, there are a lot of words that people would use for his humor . . . But everyone loved him, just adored him. We are all encouraged on films like this to go to media training, so he had to go, too. He literally is like a big child who is just full of passion and imagination. He would crack jokes nonstop and run around and hug crew members all day long. He’s really an amazing spirit.
Jacobs: You are in the tabloids. How do you deal with that kind of attention?
Jacobs: I mean, listen, when I did my research, you know, I would read about things that Shia LaBeouf supposedly said, or there’s that weird video of you and Adrian Grenier in the street with paparazzi in your face with cameras. I mean, there’s all that stuff.
Lucas: It’s definitely a very different culture from what I grew up with. It’s something I’m trying to adjust to and accept with grace. It sometimes intimidates me and makes me feel a bit like a fish out of water. But living in L.A., I’ve also had really wonderful, beautiful experiences and met really wonderful, beautiful people. All in all, I feel like I’ve grown a lot and it’s been a really good experience for me.
Jacobs: Whose careers do you admire?
Lucas: Daniel Day-Lewis and Cate Blanchett, definitely. I also love Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard—French actresses. I’m really drawn to European films.
Jacobs: Why did you decide to be an actor?
Lucas: I didn’t actually decide. I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.
Lucas: I was 17 and totally focused on art. I wanted to study fine art or philosophy or just travel. Initially, my agent asked if I was interested in modeling, and I said no. Then she asked if she could take me for lunch with mom and dad the next day [to discuss acting]. We did, and I was interested. It felt like a very serendipitous encounter. About half a year later, I auditioned for Home and Away. I genuinely didn’t have any expectations of actually getting the job, but then I did, and that was for three years and three months. Afterwards I took time to travel, but I started to realize that I missed that creative outlet—the playing and the interaction and the creativity and the writing a diary for your character. I started to realize that this is something I really feel compelled to explore. I gave myself time with it. I said in my mind, I’ll give myself five years and wholeheartedly commit. Actually, I’m just past the five years now.
Mark Jacobs is a Los Angeles–based writer and creative consultant.

Published on August 12, 2008 05:40 PM

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Adrian Grenier and his girlfriend, Transformers 2 star Isabel Lucas, have split on the heels of her car crash while driving with costar Shia LaBeouf, a source tells PEOPLE.

The pair broke up about three weeks ago, right after the accident that left LaBeouf with a crushed hand. “It wasn’t working out,” says a source. “Adrian saw her with Shia and that was kind of it – the crash, their hanging out. He obviously didn’t appreciate it.”

Lucas, 22, was the passenger in LaBeouf’s car. She was treated for minor bumps and bruises at the hospital and released.

Lucas’s rep confirmed to PEOPLE that the actress “is single.”

According to reports, Lucas had been dating Entourage star Grenier, 32, for several months.

A rep for Grenier wasn’t immediately available for comment.

• Reporting by JENNIFER GARCIA and MARLA LEHNER

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10 Things You Didn’t Know about Isabel Lucas
There are pretty faces aplenty in Hollywood and saying that they’re all alike is something that some folks would say just to avoid having to pick one out from the crowd. Isabel Lucas is one of those pretty faces to be honest but she’s able to be picked out from a crowd largely because like everyone else she has her own set of skills and personality that she can fall back on while still getting the job done and showing people that she is talented enough for consideration. She’s a bit quiet sometimes and not quite as forcible in her manner but that does set her apart from other people still since it makes her a wild card that you don’t know that much about and could possibly be surprised by. Just thinking that she’s different than the rest is enough to invite arguments from either side of the line since as it is with anyone else it’s a yes sometimes and it’s a no when it comes to other matters. She’s unique in her own way.
Here are a few things you might not have known about her.
She does come off as a very quiet person even on film since she’s not the kind of woman that goes out there and raises her voice all that often. Some women do this because their character demands it and others do it to be a little more noticeable. Isabel however remains who she is on camera and off.
People that love animals often have a lot more compassion and are a very understanding bunch since let’s face facts and say that animals require a lot of care and a whole lot of patience. Isabel has more than a few animals that she cares for and all of them are important to her.
You could say this was where the wheels started to come off in a way since the first Transformers was a treat and was something that was visually stunning to the audience. The second one was something that a lot of people knew nothing about since the stories of the Fallen were not something that the average movie fan would have researched before going to see the movie, and the number of Transformers was still pretty limited since the cost of creating as many as there were was enormous.
This is pretty ironic considering that they were both riding in a car during the time the movie was shooting. But of course the car they were riding in at the time of the film was under control the whole time and there was no danger. This time however Shia LaBeouf, who was driving, sustained a serious injury to his hand, but Isabel was relatively unharmed.
She’s been riding for years apparently and has gotten quite good at a few tricks. There’s definitely a bond needed between the horse and the rider in order to have enough trust that everything will go just fine on the course.
The manner in which she looks at acting is quite interesting really. She doesn’t sweat auditions since to her they’re just another small moment in the world of acting. Even if she does or doesn’t get the part she doesn’t let it faze her.
This is a great way to look at life honestly since worrying over rejection is an easy way to prevent oneself from seeing another way towards success. If we all were to dwell on rejection more than anything else then no one would ever move forward in life.
Despite not being given a lot of consideration by many people this was still an interesting film and an interesting take on Greek mythology. She played Athena, daughter to Zeus and one very deadly warrior when the fighting started. But of course she and her fellow gods felt the need to circumvent her father’s authority from time to time.
A lot of people cried foul when this remake was made since Red Dawn has been deemed one of the many movies that absolutely did not need a remake. But that doesn’t stop filmmakers from trying after all, and to be honest the film wasn’t a total flop.
When she and a couple of her fellow celebrities tried to disrupt the fishing in Japan, in an attempt to save the dolphins, they were forced to make haste to the airport and leave the country so that they wouldn’t be arrested.
She might be quiet, but she speaks up when she feels the need.
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