{"id":175977,"date":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175977\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","slug":"michael-madsens-son-luke-says-hes-following-in-late-dads-acting-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175977\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Madsen’s Son Luke Says He’s Following in Late Dad’s Acting Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Madsen
\n Son Luke Ready to Carry On Dad’s Acting Legacy<\/p>\n

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Michael Madsen<\/strong><\/a> left one heck of a legacy in Hollywood when he died last month — and now his son\u2019s ready to pick up his father’s acting torch.<\/p>\n

TMZ caught up with the late actor’s son Luke<\/strong>, who says he was always on and off about acting — but after his dad passed, all those memories of running around movie sets came flooding back and reignited his passion for the craft.<\/p>\n

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Luke also tells us which of his dad\u2019s iconic roles he\u2019d want to step into, and shares a key memory with his dad that, yep, is also movie-related!<\/p>\n

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Check out the full video — ’cause the budding star brings it back to his dad\u2019s impressive resume, talking about how he wants people to remember him following Michael’s cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Luke also shared what it was like hearing from Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/a> at the funeral.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s obviously a tough time for Luke — but with his dad\u2019s legacy behind him and a strong support system at his side, it feels like this is just the beginning of something huge for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Madsen Son Luke Ready to Carry On Dad’s Acting Legacy Published August 25, 2025 3:09 PM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[104,185,171,14839,50,26767,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-175977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hip-hop","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tmz-hip-hop","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092947479720879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}