The motion filed by the defendants sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against DA Lucas Babin for allegedly violating "the principles of due process and fairness" in his legal pursuits against Netflix and the makers of Cuties.
Lucas Babin. Huh. That name rang a bell, like a hazy memory clouded with alcohol and denial.
We really weren't prepped for what we found. Yes, Babin, the Tyler DA suing Cuties, is the same Lucas Babin who appeared as that uncomfortably sensual rocker in School of Rock.
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Lucas Babin, right, flirts with Joan Cusack in the 2003 film School of Rock.
screenshot from YouTube
According to his Internet Movie Database page, Babin started acting in bit parts around the start of the new millennium on shows such as the MTV sex anthology Undressed and HBO's Sex in the City as "Model at the Party." He even played "Lover on the Beach" in a music video for a song from the thankfully short music career of Paris Hilton.
Apparently, Babin did pretty well with his modeling life. According to a Texas Monthly feature in 2000, he made "up to $7,000 a day" posing for fashion giants such as Gucci and Versace.
He later found his way to Brazil where he scored regular roles on soap operas such as the 2005 series América on which he played Nick in a string of 65 episodes. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any clips of him from the soap opera, and it's killing us because South American soap operas are insane. The storylines give zero fucks about what anyone thinks and they extend far over the edge of reality.
"The character I played was an American bull rider," Babin said in a video interview with Pastor Jordan Wilson of Church in the Country. "We went off on location. I don't know if y'all know this but Brazil is a big rodeo country. They got some serious riders down there. ... I was around all these guys with skull rings and their Wranglers and bulls and horses so it was a lot like Texas, actually."
Babin started a family and got his law degree from the University of Houston in 2014. Four years later, he ran for Tyler County DA and won the seat, replacing retiring DA Lou Ann Cloy, according to state bar and voting records. Sometime last year, a Twitter user with an eye for faces spotted Babin, who just filed the Netflix indictment over Cuties and recognized him as Spider from School of Rock.
Does that mean we'll one day be saying "the U.S. representative who played Spider from School of Rock?" Gulp.