Showing all 92 items. He is Scottish, but is of partial Irish ancestry. He has also mentioned that, because of this, his family does not have a tartan. First stage role was in Coriolanus. Poked in the eye with a wooden stake during rehearsals for the play. Later he played Tullus Aufidius in the Coriolanus film. On the first day of shooting his film debut in Mrs. Brown , he had to run naked into a freezing sea and, as a result, developed hypothermia.
Was once rumored to be the next James Bond after Pierce Brosnan. Was confirmed for a role in Mindhunters , but chose to drop out of it because of his prior commitment to Timeline The filming schedules of the two films overlapped.
Jonny Lee Miller with whom Butler co-starred in Dracula stepped in to take his Mindhunter role. Was at one time the lead singer for a Scottish rock band named Speed, although music eventually became his second love after acting. Had the rock-and-roll voice that Andrew Lloyd Webber always wanted to hear as the Phantom. Jokes about preferring the mask side of his face to the regular side of his face.
He has quickly gained a reputation as one of the nicest actors around, as he always takes time to socialize with fans and hangs out with crew members as much as co-stars on film sets. Because, if so, I'm leaving right now". He has a legal degree from Glasgow University, but gave up on that career after being fired from a law firm just one week before he was qualified to practice law.
Was chosen as the most attractive man of by Hello! Prefers to be called Gerry. He does this because he notices that many people especially Americans struggle with pronouncing "Gerard". Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the Sexiest Stars in film history Is constantly trying to quit smoking employing the use of hypnotism, patches, lasers and most general methods. He did quit for six months while filming , but started again towards the end of filming.
He is a huge fan of Glasgow Celtic Football club. He played for them in , in a charity match against Manchester United. He was rescued after a surfing accident on December 18, in northern California. He and three others were filming a scene for Chasing Mavericks when they were hit by a freak set of waves.
He was held underwater and dragged over a rocky reef until he was rescued by a safety worker on jet-skis. He was hospitalized for minor injuries and released. His name is not pronounced, like the typical Gerard, with a long "A". It is pronounced like 'chair-errd'.
During production of The Phantom of the Opera , it took him four hours to get fitted with his makeup and prosthetics. He stated in an interview, before finally quitting drinking at age 27, that his wild drinking antics would involve smashing bottles over his own head, running in front of cars, and he once woke up in Paris, miles from where he'd been at a party, covered in gashes and blood and, to this day, he has no idea what happened in that incident.
Worked in a variety of jobs including a waiter, a telemarketer and a demonstrator of how toys work at fairs between acting roles. Before his final year of law school, Butler took a year off to live in California. He mostly lived in Venice Beach, working at different jobs, traveling often, and, according to him, drinking heavily, at one point being arrested for alcohol-related disorderly conduct.
The role eventually went to Ben Affleck. Was unable to book a professional acting job for the first two years of his career. Aside from singing in a band in college, he had no prior Musical experience before being cast in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera Revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in October that he is the first person in the history of the Scottish legal system to be fired before qualifying as a lawyer.
Gerard Butler won the lead role in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla on the basis of his shredded eight-packs abs that he famously showed off in the global hit Asked why Ritchie cast Butler in the lead role, product Susan Downey said, "Guy saw Gerry in , and just fell in love with his abs and decided to cast him in our movie.
On his new acting career: "[During] some of the most miserable periods of my life, people thought I was very happy.
And now that I'm actually happier, I don't have to show it. I'm more comfortable with myself. In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy. You've got to move on and it's a shame because there's a part of you that thinks, 'I was so attached to that movie and its success and what it meant to me. I heard some backroom chatter about another movie. I don't know if it would be a sequel or a prequel but I haven't read anything.
I can't see it myself, the idea in general. I'm not sure which way they would go with that. When Russell Crowe did Gladiator , he didn't come back and do another one. Like mine, his character died. On solitude: I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way. On acting: Just make them feel something, because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?
It's embarrassing. Sometimes I finish a movie and I get used to a certain lifestyle and when that stops I get a bit lost for about a week. Often all I want to do is travel and just get the hell out of there. But I'm actually boring really. I saw this movie [ How to Train Your Dragon ] and thought "wow, I would really like an animated kid". I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule.
I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course. You just hear the Scottish voice and you can hear a man with a set of heavy feet that are connected to the ground.
When they smile, they really smile. When they stare, they really stare. There is just something burning about them. On the last time he drank alcohol at age 27 I was in Camden England and I had a crazy experience with these two sisters whom I was friends with from Glasgow, and we'd been out one night, and one of the sisters just went nuts.
I don't know what it was. She just lost her mind and the other sister was freaking out and crying and saying, 'I don't know what's wrong with her' and I remember thinking: 'How many of these crazy situations do I have to get into? This is not who I am or where I should be'. I woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror and didn't recognize myself. I didn't recognize my face, and I didn't recognize my soul. I went: 'Who is this? What's happened to you? I missed that opportunity. A week later, they fire me.
Humiliated but determined to finally pursue his dream of acting, Butler moved to London, England, the next day and worked odd jobs while trying to get his career off the ground. While working as a casting assistant for the play Coriolanus , he ran into the play's director, Steven Berkoff, in a coffee shop and begged for a chance to read for the lead role. He says of the experience: "I gave it everything. Afterward, the casting director came up to me almost in tears.
She said, 'You're the best he saw in two days! I'd gone from handing out pages to getting the lead role. During the film's shooting, he was picnicking with his mother near a river and heard screaming from a boy who was in trouble. He immediately dove into the river and saved the youth from drowning, winning a Certificate of Bravery from the Royal Humane Society as an example of his courage and caring. After acting in a series of largely forgettable films, in , Butler finally got his break with the role of the Phantom in Joel Schumacher's on-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Phantom of the Opera.
It was a demanding role that required the actor to sing most of his lines. Even though Butler had been the lead singer of a rock band during his time in law school, he was incredibly nervous about auditioning for the part: "I'd had maybe four singing lessons when I went to sing 'Music of the Night' for Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was perhaps the most nerve-wracking experience I ever went through.
But I got the role. Some people thought I did a great job, but others thought it was sacrilegious. Though Phantom did not hit blockbuster gold, it got Butler recognized in Hollywood, and four years later he landed the lead role, as King Leonidas, in , the testosterone-infused historical epic about a small legion of Spartan soldiers defeating the enormous Persian army. To look believable as a warrior king, Butler trained every day for four months in the most intense workout regimen of his life, giving him an incredible physique in time for the shoot: "You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped—the history of that is all in your eyes," he said.
Butler's role in was a huge boost to his career profile. Since appearing in , the actor has starred in several romantic comedies such as P. And his career isn't showing any signs of slowing down. Despite all of his success, Gerard Butler still retains the breezy attitude of a guy who rolls with the punches and has a down-to-earth sense of humor. During his time in university, Butler was also the director of the law society and graduated with honors.
It was quickly identifying I could go out and have a life of traveling, craziness, adventure, partying, women, and all the other stuff that go with that including a feeling of abandonment. A week before he was due to complete his traineeship, he moved to the Edinburgh Film Festival and noticed a stage production of Trainspotting, an experience that formed his disappointment with the law and his desire to be an actor.
Though Phantom did not draw blockbuster gold, it got Butler acknowledged in Hollywood, and four years later he settled the lead character, as King Leonidas, in , the testosterone-infused historical story about a small legion of Spartan soldiers winning the enormous Persian army. Menu Home. Table of Contents. Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler With His Mother. About Author Team WoodGram we are team woodgram, who researches all actual biodata from a different authorized source and put it all together for our visitor.
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