Drew Starkey Says He Was Pulled Over While Filming Driving Scene for “Lucky” (Exclusive)

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• Drew Starkey got his own thrill on the set of his new Apple TV thriller

• The Lucky star tells PEOPLE that he and Anya Taylor-Joy’s stunt double Hayley Wright were pulled over while filming a driving scene for the new series due to a misunderstanding

• “I was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize that they were going to throw cops in this section of the scene,’ ” Starkey says

Drew Starkey was certainly lucky to get out of that one.

The Lucky star, who plays Cary Masterson in the Apple TV thriller based on the Marissa Stapley novel of the same name, is looking back at his “favorite memory” from the action scenes on set — which he tells PEOPLE just so happens to be the time he had a hilarious misunderstanding with authorities.

Starkey, 32, recalls co-star Anya Taylor-Joy’s stunt double Hayley Wright “tearing it up” while filming a driving scene for the show, as the pair “burst” out of a garage door and onto a “beautiful, long beach.”

The shot was filmed with a “long lens,” meaning no crew members were in the immediate area, Starkey explains. “She’s tearing up the sand and we get down to our end mark, and we see lights behind us and I look at the ground. I was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize that they were going to throw cops in this section of the scene,’ ” he says. “And Hayley was like, ‘I think we’re getting pulled over.’ And we were.”

Drew Starkey attends the premiere of Apple TV’s ‘Lucky’ in Los Angeles, Calif. on July 13, 2026
Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Apple TV/Getty

At that point, a police officer approached the vehicle, “walked up to the driver’s” side and asked what they were up to. “He’s like, ‘There [are] no cars allowed on the beach.’ She’s like, ‘We’re filming a movie. We’re so sorry,’ ” Starkey recalls of Wright’s response. “And he looked around and he was like, ‘Where are the cameras?’ “

Eventually, PAs ended up “sprinting” over and things were taken care of.

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Taylor-Joy, 30, adds, “So that’d be the worst thing you could ever say to a police officer. He was like, ‘Oh, sir, sir, sir. No, what you just saw, it’s not real. It’s film.’ “

“You’re imagining this,” Starkey jokes.

While no cast members actually broke the law during the show’s production, both Starkey and Taylor-Joy star alongside Annette Bening as criminals with a familial connection in Lucky. Taylor-Joy, 30, plays the titular con artist, Lucky Armstrong, whose “multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways,” per a synopsis, leaving her on the run from both the FBI and a few adversaries. It marks the actress’ debut as an executive producer and follows her latest string of box office hits, including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Dune: Part Two.

“The main difference that I find between movies and limited series or television shows is just the sheer amount of hours that you are allowed with a character,” Taylor-Joy says. “There are certain stories that do best in a limited screen time, and that is a wonderful thing to do for film. But there are other stories that just feel like they benefit from having time unpeeling the onion.”

Fitting “the entirety of the seven hours” of Lucky in a film format would’ve made it an “entirely different thing,” she says. “But I always approach the work the same. I never show up to work thinking I’m making a television show today or I’m making a movie,” Taylor-Joy explains. “It’s the same interior work and it’s the same passion and the same love.”

New episodes of Lucky arrive every Wednesday on Apple TV through Aug. 19.

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