Post by Dianne on Nov 25, 2008 21:49:01 GMT -5
Thanks to Galena for the interview... Hallo Mr. Butler gerardbutler.forumcommunity.net/
www.923krock.com/pages/1420414.php#fri
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DJ: Gerard Butler, are you there sir?
Gerry: Yes, yes…
D.J.: Yes, yes, yes…… Welcome to the Opie and Anthony Show.
Where are you calling from?
Gerry: Um, probably about a hundred yards away, New York.
D.J.: New York?
Gerry: Yes Chelsea.
D.J.: Can you come up and just hang with us we have omelets and everything.
Other D.J.: A few blocks away…
D.J.: Yeah, why don’t you come up?
Gerry: I don’t know, because I um… uh… That’s a very good question but I just ate my own omelet and I’m really… I’m sitting here eating oatmeal as well but next time, I’ll eat it with you guys.
D.J.: Are you having some haggis or whatever they call it?
Gerry: Ha, ha, ha, ha…
D.J.: Yeah, ha, ha.. Oh wow, sorry.
Other D.J.: You eat haggis at two o-clock in the morning.
D.J.: What is it?
Other D.J.: It’s like, it’s got oats and a bit of beef in there and stuff and it’s cooked in a sheep’s gut. You can eat it in different – haggis pizza.
D.J.: Oh really?
Other D.J.: Awe, good stuff.
DJ: Good stuff aye?
Other DJ: <mumbles> I live off the stuff.
DJ: Yeah sure…yuck… Hey Rolland said you were a big fan of our show and when I read this email I was like WOW, or is Rolland blowing smoke up our butts? I bet you never even heard of us. What does Rolland know?
Gerry: No, I’ve uh... I’ve totally heard of you guys and I’ve listened to you guys and I’ve even watched your little kind of animated pieces on my Ipod.
DJ: That is freaking me out right now.
Other DJ: You know what we learned on Rolland’s last day that he isn’t full of crap. That’s amazing.
DJ: That’s exactly what he wrote. I got to call out Rolland today but really you watch this stuff on the Ipod?
Gerry: Yeah I do, but listen; maybe he is full of crap because he knows how too…. He also said those guys are huge fans of yours, you have to come on this show…
DJ: Well it’s true.
Gerry: <Mumbles> so <garbled> either
DJ: Oh, uh.. uhh… we’ll get to the new movie but uhh of course.
Other DJ: Rock-n-Rolla
DJ: But I’ve watched 300 and it’s got to be freaken 15 times.
Other DJ: Yeah.
DJ: The movie is fantastic.
Other DJ: And the movie is all him, and it looks great but its watching that guy be all intense.
DJ: Oh my God, if I may just watching the language. Hey you know you don’t take any guff in that movie.
Other DJ: No, let me tell ya.
Gerry: Well that’s because I eat haggis.
DJ: <laughs> Haggis…
Jim Norton: Hey, hey Gerard, it’s Jim Norton. So Ludicrous has had…
DJ’s together: Ah HA!!! He didn’t say, “Oh Jim!”
Jim Norton: So Ludicrous was also in this film coming up?
Gerry: He is, yeah. Which film we talking about – Rock-n-Rolla, yes he is. Ludicrous is in every film I do at the moment. I just finished another movie Game and Ludicrous was in that as well. So I think that he’s following me around.
DJ: Do you have too, do you have to uh, uh…keep the shape you were in, in 300 for these other roles?
Gerry: The second one Game which is kind of an action flick I had to get into shape for but I never have had too or ever will get into the shape I was in for 300.
DJ: That was ridiculous like to watch that – it’s like any guy who watches that just goes, “I suck as a human being I, I do not have the body you are supposed to have as a human being.” Those are like every one of the 300 were cut like that.
Other DJ: Crazy.
Gerry: Can I say any guy that watches the film 15 times definitely…
DJ: Let me tell you something, your abs there sweetie… that’s like uh…
Gerry: That’s a huge compliment.
DJ: 300 sets of abs and if you do the math that’s uh…
Other DJ: 20…..1800 abs.
DJ: Now its all about the <Mumbles, garbled>
DJ: So what was that like, it had to be every day for what 15 minutes?
Gerry: Not 15 minutes, I’d say about 12, 12 minutes.
DJ: 12 minute workout. What, what, what did you use that little thing called thigh master…. An abversizer , one of those things. The boflex, Abs of steel.
Other DJ: It’s not abs anymore it’s the core, you have to work the whole core.
DJ: Please… whatever.
Gerry: It was actually just a whole body suit made of foam latex.
DJ: Oh that was it, that’s makes me feel a little better.
Other DJ: Gerard, I got to tell you nothing but props for beating up that paparazzi guy.
Gerry: Oh… Thank you.
DJ: <laughs>
Other DJ: He probably doesn’t want to talk about it. But you know these guys tend to get a little uh, a little too much.
DJ: What, what, would you hit a guy.
Other DJ: I might have… But what kind of stupid paparazzi…
Gerry: I still have cuts on my knuckles from that incident.
DJ: He tried to punch you in the fist with his face didn’t he?
Gerry: Yeah, yeah, he attacked me with three of his teeth. Were one of you guys going to say, “What kind of guy would chase home the guy from 300, that’s what I was thinking.
DJ: Who the hell would get after this guy and try to give him hell like that and being and ass.
Other DJ: The Paparazzo was chasing the limo and well you know you were going to have none of that…To bad Diana couldn’t fight like you.
Gerry: Well there was nowhere else to go but go out the back of my car…
DJ: So you got out of the car and punched the guy in the mouth.
Other DJ: Do you know how many people in Hollywood probably wanted to do that. You probably just had enough. They hassled you enough times and you probably thought, “The next guy who does this I’m going to punch him in the face or was it just a complete reaction in the moment?
Gerry: It was very much a reaction in the moment, but if I was to look back on it then um… yeah I think it was a build up of… But I was being chased and he was going…and I was going round blocks and I didn’t want to go home I didn’t want him following me home so he just wouldn’t leave me, he was going through red lights…ummm… just to keep up with me. So eventually it starts to get a little bit claustrophobic and I guess, I guess the brave heart came out in me. Brave heart or 300, what am I talking about?
DJ: Brave Heart, whatever.
Gerry: So that’s what I just said Brave Heart. I didn’t get many advantages to answer that question because any court case that was pending is now going to go against me.
DJ: Yeah they’re going to make us give up this tape…
Gerry: Well actually charges were dropped can you believe it? The prosecutor threw out the charges because of that very reason…
DJ: So that means another guy is going to be punching the paparazzi now they’re a bunch of vultures.
DJ: Well they do this thing now, I saw them doing it to Seal where they yell at you like fans so that can’t be charges with harassment, “Hey Gerard, big fan, love your stuff.” And this way you can’t say they are harassing you because they’re acting like fans.
Gerry: Yeah, a lot doesn’t even bother with that because they know they can get away with murder so sometimes it just goes straight into the taunting. Because you know for them I guess… By the way it’s not fair to lump everyone in the same boat because some of them are awesome guys but some of them are just out to make a buck and not by the regular photographs. The photographs that are worth more to them are the ones when you’re having a melt-down.
DJ: Yeah that’s what they want.
Gerry: And then they’re like, “Yeah, yeah, we did it! We <mumbles> Awesome!
DJ: Some of that footage is fun to watch when you guys do the melt-down but you know when you’re a fan of the person then you’re on their side for punching the paparazzi in the face so…
Gerry: Yeah…
DJ: I got to ask you, how good did it feel in that second when the fist connected and the anger at the paparazzi in general I mean that must have really felt wonderful and vindicating just in that split second.
Gerry: Well it was three punches you know so each one felt good and a foot in the car that caused an extra.. which caused an x-ray about a week ago…
DJ: You mean you kicked his car?
Gerry: Yeah, yeah, I kicked his car is all..I um…. I had to go for an x-ray because I thought uh… I had a sore toe for about four days and then I trained on top of it and the whole thing swelled up. And literally maybe God was on my side because I got away with it, but then my toe swelled up and I don’t think he was a good guy and I’m the one in the wrong because I got a broken toe but um..
DJ: You were the right, you were right.
Other DJ: yeah.. How did somebody not just back down from the look, like you probably could have done that slow over your shoulder look and given them the eyes and the guy would just run away or something. How do you sit there and get punched by this guy? Jeeze…
Gerry: I tried it and then I realized my windows were tinted.
DJ: Leonidas drives with tinted windows… who knew…
Time to wrap
DJ: Oh Man, he is obviously doing a phone tour but we had… uh..
Gerard Butler obviously in Rock-n-Rolla it’s in theaters today, Today’s opening day?
Gerry: Yeah umm… Today’s gone wide; I think it goes into about 800 theaters.
DJ: The trailer looks cool.
Other DJ: Hey Gerard, I know you have to leave but just for the audience what is the movie about really quickly so we get that out?
Gerry: It’s a Guy Richie, so if anyone knows Guy Richie with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I don’t think I have to explain anymore. It’s hard to explain a plot of a movie like that. It’s a lot of fun, its hilarious cool as hell movie.
DJ: He’s a friend of the show Guy Richie…Right on man… You got to stop by because there is so much else we’d like to ask you and we could have a lot of fun man.
Other DJ: yeah it was nice having you on.
Gerry: I would like too definitely, and is this Roland’s last day?
DJs: Yes we hate that it is…yeah unfortunately it is…
Gerry: He is the coolest guy by the way I have to say, I like Roland a lot.
DJ: Will Farrel said he was the nicest guy ever. Roland is the 300 pounds.
Other DJ: I couldn’t image two different bodies standing together.
Gerry: He sands me the coolest emails once in a while which I have..Like he’s walking around, “How ya doing? Sorry about the paparazzi thing I hope..” They are not so unlike any other email but they are just so nice you go, “What a great guy!”
Other DJ: Roland is a Kook!
DJ: Yeah, yeah, he is a little nutty.
Gerry: That’s what I’m trying to say.
DJ: I saw Rock-n-Rolla three times it’s awesome so…hey take care man, good luck with the movie.
Gerry: Thank you guys it was good talking to you.
DJ: alright Gerard, we’ll get you again, Gerard butler everyone…
www.923krock.com/pages/1420414.php#fri
Hope this link still brings up the interview.
DJ: Gerard Butler, are you there sir?
Gerry: Yes, yes…
D.J.: Yes, yes, yes…… Welcome to the Opie and Anthony Show.
Where are you calling from?
Gerry: Um, probably about a hundred yards away, New York.
D.J.: New York?
Gerry: Yes Chelsea.
D.J.: Can you come up and just hang with us we have omelets and everything.
Other D.J.: A few blocks away…
D.J.: Yeah, why don’t you come up?
Gerry: I don’t know, because I um… uh… That’s a very good question but I just ate my own omelet and I’m really… I’m sitting here eating oatmeal as well but next time, I’ll eat it with you guys.
D.J.: Are you having some haggis or whatever they call it?
Gerry: Ha, ha, ha, ha…
D.J.: Yeah, ha, ha.. Oh wow, sorry.
Other D.J.: You eat haggis at two o-clock in the morning.
D.J.: What is it?
Other D.J.: It’s like, it’s got oats and a bit of beef in there and stuff and it’s cooked in a sheep’s gut. You can eat it in different – haggis pizza.
D.J.: Oh really?
Other D.J.: Awe, good stuff.
DJ: Good stuff aye?
Other DJ: <mumbles> I live off the stuff.
DJ: Yeah sure…yuck… Hey Rolland said you were a big fan of our show and when I read this email I was like WOW, or is Rolland blowing smoke up our butts? I bet you never even heard of us. What does Rolland know?
Gerry: No, I’ve uh... I’ve totally heard of you guys and I’ve listened to you guys and I’ve even watched your little kind of animated pieces on my Ipod.
DJ: That is freaking me out right now.
Other DJ: You know what we learned on Rolland’s last day that he isn’t full of crap. That’s amazing.
DJ: That’s exactly what he wrote. I got to call out Rolland today but really you watch this stuff on the Ipod?
Gerry: Yeah I do, but listen; maybe he is full of crap because he knows how too…. He also said those guys are huge fans of yours, you have to come on this show…
DJ: Well it’s true.
Gerry: <Mumbles> so <garbled> either
DJ: Oh, uh.. uhh… we’ll get to the new movie but uhh of course.
Other DJ: Rock-n-Rolla
DJ: But I’ve watched 300 and it’s got to be freaken 15 times.
Other DJ: Yeah.
DJ: The movie is fantastic.
Other DJ: And the movie is all him, and it looks great but its watching that guy be all intense.
DJ: Oh my God, if I may just watching the language. Hey you know you don’t take any guff in that movie.
Other DJ: No, let me tell ya.
Gerry: Well that’s because I eat haggis.
DJ: <laughs> Haggis…
Jim Norton: Hey, hey Gerard, it’s Jim Norton. So Ludicrous has had…
DJ’s together: Ah HA!!! He didn’t say, “Oh Jim!”
Jim Norton: So Ludicrous was also in this film coming up?
Gerry: He is, yeah. Which film we talking about – Rock-n-Rolla, yes he is. Ludicrous is in every film I do at the moment. I just finished another movie Game and Ludicrous was in that as well. So I think that he’s following me around.
DJ: Do you have too, do you have to uh, uh…keep the shape you were in, in 300 for these other roles?
Gerry: The second one Game which is kind of an action flick I had to get into shape for but I never have had too or ever will get into the shape I was in for 300.
DJ: That was ridiculous like to watch that – it’s like any guy who watches that just goes, “I suck as a human being I, I do not have the body you are supposed to have as a human being.” Those are like every one of the 300 were cut like that.
Other DJ: Crazy.
Gerry: Can I say any guy that watches the film 15 times definitely…
DJ: Let me tell you something, your abs there sweetie… that’s like uh…
Gerry: That’s a huge compliment.
DJ: 300 sets of abs and if you do the math that’s uh…
Other DJ: 20…..1800 abs.
DJ: Now its all about the <Mumbles, garbled>
DJ: So what was that like, it had to be every day for what 15 minutes?
Gerry: Not 15 minutes, I’d say about 12, 12 minutes.
DJ: 12 minute workout. What, what, what did you use that little thing called thigh master…. An abversizer , one of those things. The boflex, Abs of steel.
Other DJ: It’s not abs anymore it’s the core, you have to work the whole core.
DJ: Please… whatever.
Gerry: It was actually just a whole body suit made of foam latex.
DJ: Oh that was it, that’s makes me feel a little better.
Other DJ: Gerard, I got to tell you nothing but props for beating up that paparazzi guy.
Gerry: Oh… Thank you.
DJ: <laughs>
Other DJ: He probably doesn’t want to talk about it. But you know these guys tend to get a little uh, a little too much.
DJ: What, what, would you hit a guy.
Other DJ: I might have… But what kind of stupid paparazzi…
Gerry: I still have cuts on my knuckles from that incident.
DJ: He tried to punch you in the fist with his face didn’t he?
Gerry: Yeah, yeah, he attacked me with three of his teeth. Were one of you guys going to say, “What kind of guy would chase home the guy from 300, that’s what I was thinking.
DJ: Who the hell would get after this guy and try to give him hell like that and being and ass.
Other DJ: The Paparazzo was chasing the limo and well you know you were going to have none of that…To bad Diana couldn’t fight like you.
Gerry: Well there was nowhere else to go but go out the back of my car…
DJ: So you got out of the car and punched the guy in the mouth.
Other DJ: Do you know how many people in Hollywood probably wanted to do that. You probably just had enough. They hassled you enough times and you probably thought, “The next guy who does this I’m going to punch him in the face or was it just a complete reaction in the moment?
Gerry: It was very much a reaction in the moment, but if I was to look back on it then um… yeah I think it was a build up of… But I was being chased and he was going…and I was going round blocks and I didn’t want to go home I didn’t want him following me home so he just wouldn’t leave me, he was going through red lights…ummm… just to keep up with me. So eventually it starts to get a little bit claustrophobic and I guess, I guess the brave heart came out in me. Brave heart or 300, what am I talking about?
DJ: Brave Heart, whatever.
Gerry: So that’s what I just said Brave Heart. I didn’t get many advantages to answer that question because any court case that was pending is now going to go against me.
DJ: Yeah they’re going to make us give up this tape…
Gerry: Well actually charges were dropped can you believe it? The prosecutor threw out the charges because of that very reason…
DJ: So that means another guy is going to be punching the paparazzi now they’re a bunch of vultures.
DJ: Well they do this thing now, I saw them doing it to Seal where they yell at you like fans so that can’t be charges with harassment, “Hey Gerard, big fan, love your stuff.” And this way you can’t say they are harassing you because they’re acting like fans.
Gerry: Yeah, a lot doesn’t even bother with that because they know they can get away with murder so sometimes it just goes straight into the taunting. Because you know for them I guess… By the way it’s not fair to lump everyone in the same boat because some of them are awesome guys but some of them are just out to make a buck and not by the regular photographs. The photographs that are worth more to them are the ones when you’re having a melt-down.
DJ: Yeah that’s what they want.
Gerry: And then they’re like, “Yeah, yeah, we did it! We <mumbles> Awesome!
DJ: Some of that footage is fun to watch when you guys do the melt-down but you know when you’re a fan of the person then you’re on their side for punching the paparazzi in the face so…
Gerry: Yeah…
DJ: I got to ask you, how good did it feel in that second when the fist connected and the anger at the paparazzi in general I mean that must have really felt wonderful and vindicating just in that split second.
Gerry: Well it was three punches you know so each one felt good and a foot in the car that caused an extra.. which caused an x-ray about a week ago…
DJ: You mean you kicked his car?
Gerry: Yeah, yeah, I kicked his car is all..I um…. I had to go for an x-ray because I thought uh… I had a sore toe for about four days and then I trained on top of it and the whole thing swelled up. And literally maybe God was on my side because I got away with it, but then my toe swelled up and I don’t think he was a good guy and I’m the one in the wrong because I got a broken toe but um..
DJ: You were the right, you were right.
Other DJ: yeah.. How did somebody not just back down from the look, like you probably could have done that slow over your shoulder look and given them the eyes and the guy would just run away or something. How do you sit there and get punched by this guy? Jeeze…
Gerry: I tried it and then I realized my windows were tinted.
DJ: Leonidas drives with tinted windows… who knew…
Time to wrap
DJ: Oh Man, he is obviously doing a phone tour but we had… uh..
Gerard Butler obviously in Rock-n-Rolla it’s in theaters today, Today’s opening day?
Gerry: Yeah umm… Today’s gone wide; I think it goes into about 800 theaters.
DJ: The trailer looks cool.
Other DJ: Hey Gerard, I know you have to leave but just for the audience what is the movie about really quickly so we get that out?
Gerry: It’s a Guy Richie, so if anyone knows Guy Richie with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I don’t think I have to explain anymore. It’s hard to explain a plot of a movie like that. It’s a lot of fun, its hilarious cool as hell movie.
DJ: He’s a friend of the show Guy Richie…Right on man… You got to stop by because there is so much else we’d like to ask you and we could have a lot of fun man.
Other DJ: yeah it was nice having you on.
Gerry: I would like too definitely, and is this Roland’s last day?
DJs: Yes we hate that it is…yeah unfortunately it is…
Gerry: He is the coolest guy by the way I have to say, I like Roland a lot.
DJ: Will Farrel said he was the nicest guy ever. Roland is the 300 pounds.
Other DJ: I couldn’t image two different bodies standing together.
Gerry: He sands me the coolest emails once in a while which I have..Like he’s walking around, “How ya doing? Sorry about the paparazzi thing I hope..” They are not so unlike any other email but they are just so nice you go, “What a great guy!”
Other DJ: Roland is a Kook!
DJ: Yeah, yeah, he is a little nutty.
Gerry: That’s what I’m trying to say.
DJ: I saw Rock-n-Rolla three times it’s awesome so…hey take care man, good luck with the movie.
Gerry: Thank you guys it was good talking to you.
DJ: alright Gerard, we’ll get you again, Gerard butler everyone…
