“Good morning,” says Luke Macfarlane cheerily as we log on to our Zoom call. For me, it’s late afternoon on a crisp autumnal day, while Luke is calling in from sunny Los Angeles. Clad in a dark baseball cap, he confesses, “I just literally woke up and jumped on.”
Not that you’d guess this from his appearance — the 42-year-old Canadian actor and star of Bros looks as handsome as ever, with kind eyes, a warm smile and a scruffy beard that’s giving off hot-daddy vibes. He doesn’t just look good, either; as I discover during our hour-long conversation, he’s charming, sensitive, and thoughtful, too. We don’t even talk about Bros — the film he’s promoting — for 20 minutes. First, we discuss our feelings about needles (despite fearing them, Luke has just had dry needling to treat a gym injury). We also touch on Luke’s brief turn in the musical comedy series Smash a decade ago (“It was so fun. I worked with Debra Messing before she worked with Billy. She didn’t remember that”) and even Luke’s skills as a carpenter.
A quick look at his Instagram will show you he’s quite the woodworker. From longbows and screen doors to babies’ cribs, I dare say Luke can make just about anything. After his enthusiasm for it was kindled at a young age, he’s carried on the hobby in LA. “It’s a passion,” he says. “As an actor, what we make is so ephemeral. So, doing something that’s permanent is very satisfying.” Luke finds his hobby therapeutic, in that it allows him to shut himself off from the world.
“It’s also a time capsule,” he confides. “I’m always thinking about my father. When you cut open certain woods, they have
