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"We ladies have a tendency to make generalizations about hot guys: they&amp;#39;re conceited, they&amp;#39;re jerks, they&amp;#39;re dumb, etc. In this installment of &amp;quot;The Handsome Man Interviews,&amp;quot; we continue our quest to find out what actually goes on inside the mind of a handsome man. (SPOILER ALERT: Handsome men are people, too.)\nPinterestFacebookI met Luke in college through my friend Julie. He likes activism and photography. He sort of looks like a movie husband. He lives in Pittsburgh but happened to be back in New York for a weekend, so I bought him brunch and made him talk about his face. He had a kale salad that I recommended, and I was really hungover.\nMe: Do you consider yourself handsome?\nLuke: Yeah, I mean, I&amp;#39;m confident. It&amp;#39;s for other people to decide. My grandparents say I am. But things stick with you. I was 6&amp;#39;1&amp;quot; and 150 pounds in 6th grade, and it was surprising later on to hear it.Me: When did it occur to you?\nLuke: I think when you&amp;#39;re from a small town, you don&amp;#39;t really think about it as much or realize it. And then I came to New York, I was visiting NYU with my dad, and we were walking around the East Village, and I guess some guy was checking me out. My dad was like, &amp;quot;That guy looked at you like you were a piece of chocolate cake.&amp;quot; But everyone likes something different. I tried to date a girl once but she liked skinny blond guys.\nMe: My heart bleeds. Do you think there are certain expectations of you because of how you look?\nLuke: Hmm. Yes. I&amp;#39;m pretty nice, not mean or bad-boyish. I&amp;#39;m not gonna walk up to a girl at a bar and be like--\n[douchbaggish head-motion]\n&amp;quot;Yo, what&amp;#39;s up.&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m going to be nice. And I think that surprises, I mean disappoints people sometimes.\nMe: Have you ever acted like a d*ckhead to girls because you&amp;#39;ve just been tired of proving you&amp;#39;re not and that&amp;#39;s what some people expect?\nLuke: I think\u2026 no. Never intentionally. I&amp;#39;m kind of neurotic and overly self-aware about things and that maybe prevents it. I think I&amp;#39;ve done bad things to girls, but out of confusion or stupidity, never with like...\nMe: Malice?\nLuke: Right.\nMe: Do you think people treat you different because of how you look?\n__Luke:__No, not really. But I could be the idiot. I just think in a second or two, once someone&amp;#39;s personality comes out, it just sort of goes away.\nMe: Do you ever wish you looked different?\nLuke: No, but it can get a little frustrating to\u2026 look a certain way. I&amp;#39;m drawn to a lot of offbeat, alternative stuff, and when I&amp;#39;m doing activist stuff, people think I&amp;#39;m a cop. If I put on a suit and walked into a bank, I would look like an investment banker. To a lot of people, I look like someone who bullied them in high school, or was mean to them. So I have to fight through that.\nMy dad told me once, &amp;quot;Sometimes men aren&amp;#39;t going to like you, just on sight.&amp;quot; That happens too. But you want to connect with people, and obviously this is not the worst problem to have, it just happens sometimes.\nThen there&amp;#39;s another common thing, where guys will say &amp;quot;Check out that chick&amp;quot; at a bar or probably something worse or more offensive, like I&amp;#39;m in some kind of secret club with them.\nMe: Because you&amp;#39;re a guy? Or a good-looking guy?\n__Luke:__Both, maybe. But I don&amp;#39;t engage in that, really, because growing up, my mom was a tough son of a gun. So I always feel like she&amp;#39;d jump out from behind a tree and hit me or something.\nMe: Does the way you look cause tension with your guy friends? Do they tease you?\nLuke: Um\u2026 sometimes. [Mutual guy we know] used to call me Squarejaw McBoston. There can be tension. Guys sometimes say, &amp;quot;It must be easy for you, blah blah blah.&amp;quot; My high school friends used to say that I only got things because I look the way I do.\nMe: That&amp;#39;s mean.\nLuke: Well, it&amp;#39;s true sometimes. I have a host job at a restaurant because I have an OK face. I&amp;#39;m aware of stuff like that and opportunities I have. It&amp;#39;s a Catch-22 because if you don&amp;#39;t take those opportunities, people say you&amp;#39;re lazy and you take things for granted, and if you do, you&amp;#39;re privileged because you have stuff handed to you and take it.\nMe: Does that bother you?\nLuke: More when I was younger. Oh, here&amp;#39;s a thing I was verklempt about once: In middle school, I took an acting class over the summer, and there was a staged production of The Breakfast Club, and I was really excited to be the badass guy, with the gloves, who was that--\nMe: Judd Nelson.\nLuke: Yeah, in my mind I&amp;#39;m Judd Nelson. And I was psyched, and I raised my hand, and then the teacher said &amp;quot;Yeah! You&amp;#39;d be great as the athlete.&amp;quot; Which I understand more now that I&amp;#39;m older, but I was upset at the time.\nMe: How many girlfriends have you had?\n__Luke:__What&amp;#39;s the operating definition?\nMe: That you called them your girlfriend.\n__Luke:__Oh.\n[counts on hands]\nSix.\nMe: Do you feel like you&amp;#39;re in a relationship more often than not?\nLuke: Yes.\nMe: How often did you hook up with girls in college?\n__Luke:__Haha, I... I mean, People thought I did more than I actually did. Maybe once every couple months.\nMe: Months? Do you feel like you had to try to pick up girls?\nLuke: Sure.\nMe: Do you think girls try to husband you up? You kind of look like, in a movie, the &amp;quot;dead flashback husband&amp;quot; or something.\n__Luke:__No, but yes. My high school girlfriend said I was someone she wanted to marry. And another girl said I was &amp;quot;nice and sweet,&amp;quot; but she wouldn&amp;#39;t date me.\nMe: That is dumb. OK, we&amp;#39;re done. Wait, also, your cheekbones are off the chain. What is your family&amp;#39;s stock?\nLuke: Swedish, Ukranian, Polish and Spanish.\nThanks, piece of chocolate cake! What do you think, guys? How can the Yiddish slang not win you over?\nMore interviews with handsome men:\nThe Handsome Interviews: Meet Sam, who Thinks He Looks Like Gumby\nThe Handsome Interviews: Meet Mark, a Handyman who Happens to Be Quite Attractive\nPhoto: Courtesy Luke"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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