Austin Butler cleans certain false ideas surrounding his actor approach.
Butler was called a method actor, but he does not stop using this term during the description of his process, no matter how it is “obsessive”. His so-called method The reputation of actor began with the filming of Baz Luhrmann’s film in 2022 Elvis, Which earned him an nodal appointment. The role was so intense that it led to the emergency transport of Butler to the hospital due to the closure of his body the day after the shooting. He also hired a dialect coach because he could not shake the Elvis accent to spend three years preparing to represent the king of rock ‘n’ roll.
At the New York City premiere of Flying Earlier this week, Bikerideurs Star said The Hollywood Reporter What he thinks of his reputation as a method. “I have never used the word” method “. I think this word is launched a lot.
He continued, explaining that even if he likes to learn to play and admire many actors who go to the method: “It’s more than I just like to immerse myself.”
In the latest film by Darren Aronofsky, which takes place in 1998 in New York, Butler plays Hank Thompson, a former baseball player of the Star high school who turned to the bartender in the Lower East Side after his baseball talents are interrupted due to a car accident. However, his life turns around when he decides to take care of his neighbor’s cat (Matt Smith) (Aka Tonic the Cat) while he is out of the city.
The actor made his own stunts, especially on the run of people who follow him with cars, beaten on several occasions and slammed in a wooden table. He also admitted that, even if his roles could become devouring, he finds his foot.
“Sometimes, when I’m really afraid, I can become incredibly obsessed. And when I really like something, I can become incredibly obsessive, and it can mean that I have no balance outside of that,” said Butler. “And therefore, less than using this word of [method] It’s more about trying to understand how to learn to balance life and realize that I want to understand the people I love and live the best life I can. »»
The additional members of the whole include Zoë Kravitz, who plays the love interest of Butler, Yvonne and Regina King, who embodies the detective Romanesque, the bosses of the crime played by Nikita Kukushkin and Bad Bunny, and violent killers played by Liev Schreiber and Vincent d’Onofrio.
Butler made great efforts to give life to his character, so much so that he said to Castmember Nikita to “give me a stronger kick”, during a fight scene.
Despite these extreme lengths, from Onofrio said THR He did not fear for his young co-star.
“He definitely knows what he does, this child. He knows how to manage dramatic scenes. He can manage comedy, he can manage action. I did not worry Austin for a second.”
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