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Post by elenoire on Feb 6, 2012 14:28:19 GMT -5
entertainment.stv.tv/film/296428-gerard-butlers-romantic-comedy-need/Gerard Butler felt he had to give romantic comedies ''a go'' after making his name in action films. Gerard Butler felt like he had to "have a go" at romantic comedies. The Scottish actor initially rose to fame after starring in action film '300', and he admits his later dalliances with films including 'The Bounty Hunter' and 'The Ugly Truth' were done because he wanted to make sure he tried everything. He said: "You have to have a go don't you? Nothing ventured and all that. I could have stuck with being Mr. Action Guy but I went and did a kids' movie, 'Nim's Island' and then a bunch of romantic comedies and 'Law Abiding Citizen', a taut thriller about a serial killer with Jamie Foxx. "The way I was thinking was, 'OK, I'm doing pretty well in action movies, so let me see how high I can go in drama or romantic comedy." Now starring in heavy-hitting movies such as 'Coriolanus', Gerard admits he is in a "wonderful" position. He added to Red Bulletin: "Let's say I'm not at all sure if I am Hollywood's hottest British actor, but - and this is the lawyer in me talking - for the sake of argument, let's just suppose for one moment that it is the case and if so I'd say, it feels pretty bloody wonderful." To read the whole interview with Gerard Butler visit www.redbulletin.co.uk On this link www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Red-Bulletin-Magazine/001243141472997 there is no Gerry interview, but thanks to marie 34600 who posted this link www.redbull.fr/cs/Satellite/fr_FR/Article/Red-Bulletin--Scott-Toujours-021243152887720 , it is probably published in the UK February issue
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Post by fifiserafino on Feb 7, 2012 4:20:42 GMT -5
www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Article/Red-Bulletin--Great-Scot-021243159468205RED BULLETIN:GREAT SCOTT Aged 27, Gerard Butler had never acted and was bottoming out at the bottom of a bottle. Now he’s a fixture on Hollywood’s A-list, be it action, romcom, animation or Shakespeare. He’s also a leading man in the gossip columns. Time for the truth to out. “Without a doubt the coolest, most exhilarating, most brilliant thing I have ever done was play for Celtic, in a match for their charity fund against Manchester United last summer”, says Gerard Butler. “There I was on the Celtic Park pitch, in the green-and-white hoops, playing with [former Celtic striker] Henrik Larsson and [current Celtic manager] Neil Lennon tackling the likes of Roy Keane, Teddy Sheringham and Dwight Yorke. It’s the highlight of my whole career so far.” This from the man currently the most bankable British actor in Hollywood, who, for his forthcoming movie, Playing The Field, locks lips with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jessica Biel and Uma Thurman, but then the 42 year-old Scot isn’t the man you think he is. For starters, during that football match in Glasgow in August 2011, a star-studded testimonial match for former Celtic defender John Kennedy, Butler played the first two-thirds of the match, and absolutely looked the part alongside the former professionals and soccer-loving celebs. He exited the pitch to a standing ovation. “Luckily, for the last movie I’d shot, Playing The Field, I played a soccer-player-turned-school-coach who gets involved with his players’ mums,” says Butler, looking match-fit in a suite at the Soho Hotel, London. “So I got in shape: played a lot of soccer, did a lot of surfing, hiking, running and cycling, and I was ready for the game, which was very handy indeed because I’ve supported Celtic all my life.” Dressed in a black polo shirt, combat trousers and big, black army-style boots, his tousled curly, slightly greying hair is shoulder length and matches a scruffy beard. He is jovial, refreshingly open, totally self-effacing, and very, very funny. It’s not quite the uniform or the demeanour of an actor whose box-office hit-rate is currently higher than Oscar-winner Colin Firth and Daniel Craig, whose record beyond Bond is patchy at best. There are rumours of Butler, now based where the work is, in Los Angeles, commanding eight-figure salaries. Yet he remains down-to-earth despite Hollywood and all its foibles. “Well, we Scots are very grounded, and have good manners, and if I start getting too big for my boots, there’s plenty of friends and family in Scotland who’ll sort me out,” he says, with a smile. “I love what I do and think I’m pretty good at it, so I have nothing to prove, I don’t have a chip on my shoulder and don’t need to put on any airs and graces. But all in all, I think it’s just part of being Scottish, because you can’t get carried away with any of that conceited ego rubbish up there because it don’t bloody work!” At this he takes a swig of water and has a good chuckle, his shoulders bobbing like fishing floats. “A good example for you. I saw an old pal of mine in Glasgow recently, and he’d had quite a skinful and had hardly a leg under him. So he gives me a hug and says, ‘You know Gerry, through all the success and the fame and the adulation, you’re still the same as you always were.’ So there was I was thinking, ‘Wow that was nice of him,’ and then he said, ‘Aye big man, you’re still a total dickhead!’ Brilliant! You don’t get much of that in LA." Read the full story in February's issue of The Red Bulletin.
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Post by terezoulini on Feb 14, 2012 14:49:07 GMT -5
Some more bits from that interview: www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/gerard-butler-alcohol-boozing-soberGerard Butler has certainly come a long way since hitting bottom and giving up booze! The Scottish actor, whose blackout drinking destroyed his career ambitions to become a lawyer in his twenties, explains why he quit drinking and how he got his life back together just in time to become an internationally known actor in an extensive new interview. “I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn¢t wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn¢t care if he died in his sleep,” the actor revealed to Chris Sullivan of The Red Bulletin about his heavy drinking. Butler, who was working as a trainee at an Edinburgh law firm during the time, explains that his drinking got him fired from the job. “I used to drink until I couldn¢t remember anything. I was just mad for it and on a death wish. It was madness.” Unemployed, Butler, who had no acting training, quit drinking and moved to London where he reunited with an old girlfriend who was a casting director. She scored him his first role in a play at the age of 27, and his career took off from there. “One or two drinks was never enough for me. I was a foot-on-the-floor-all-the-way drinker, so it had to go. I don¢t miss it. Now it¢s as if I never had a drink in my life. At one point, I could never have conceived going out and not drinking but, as time goes on, you lose the urge and the insecurity that often makes people drink in the first place.” Butler, who has been romantically linked to a bevy of beauties including Jennifer Aniston, Ashley Greene and Brandi Glanville, played coy when asked about his bachelor reputation. PHOTOS: Gerard Butler's Dramatic Weightloss “I am a single successful Scottish actor in a city full of beautiful women, and I will admit to having the time of my life.” “I¢m very well behaved these days as a lot of the naughty stuff was when I was drinking.” |
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Post by Dianne on Feb 14, 2012 16:19:12 GMT -5
Some more bits from that interview: www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/gerard-butler-alcohol-boozing-soberGerard Butler has certainly come a long way since hitting bottom and giving up booze! The Scottish actor, whose blackout drinking destroyed his career ambitions to become a lawyer in his twenties, explains why he quit drinking and how he got his life back together just in time to become an internationally known actor in an extensive new interview. “I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn¢t wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn¢t care if he died in his sleep,” the actor revealed to Chris Sullivan of The Red Bulletin about his heavy drinking. Butler, who was working as a trainee at an Edinburgh law firm during the time, explains that his drinking got him fired from the job. “I used to drink until I couldn¢t remember anything. I was just mad for it and on a death wish. It was madness.” Unemployed, Butler, who had no acting training, quit drinking and moved to London where he reunited with an old girlfriend who was a casting director. She scored him his first role in a play at the age of 27, and his career took off from there. “One or two drinks was never enough for me. I was a foot-on-the-floor-all-the-way drinker, so it had to go. I don¢t miss it. Now it¢s as if I never had a drink in my life. At one point, I could never have conceived going out and not drinking but, as time goes on, you lose the urge and the insecurity that often makes people drink in the first place.” Butler, who has been romantically linked to a bevy of beauties including Jennifer Aniston, Ashley Greene and Brandi Glanville, played coy when asked about his bachelor reputation. PHOTOS: Gerard Butler's Dramatic Weightloss “I am a single successful Scottish actor in a city full of beautiful women, and I will admit to having the time of my life.” “I¢m very well behaved these days as a lot of the naughty stuff was when I was drinking.” I like this interview. I'm going to get really deep here. My interpretation of why he bottomed out is this; I think he felt out of control. In the Titanic movie Rose said about her impending marriage to Cal was her life was moving forward with such inertia that she didn't know how to stop it. I think that's how Gerry felt. I believe he wanted to please his mom whom he adores and sees as a saint. Maggie WAS very brave,and damn, she did a good job raising these three kids on her own. She is an amazing woman. I think he wanted to please her by becoming an attorney, but in doing so he wasn't pleasing himself. I think he felt like he was between a rock and a hard place and he more or less spun out of control. I remember and article somewhere that he had a heart to heart with his mother about moving to London and becoming an actor and his mother told him that she would always love him and be proud of him no matter what he did. To tell you the truth I can almost picture him breaking the news to his mom when he lost his intern job at the law firm and finally telling her his desire to be an actor. I can imagine him breaking down and crying. I can imagine him telling her that he is afraid of disappointing her. For her to tell him, "I love you no matter what..." has to be said over some dramatic circumstances. I think Gerry has huge abandonment issues and part of his problem in that horrible time in his life was he was afraid he'd really, really, disappoint her and in fact afraid that he'd lose the most important person in his life at the time, his mother. To tell you the truth I would wager his mom is still the most important person to him. |
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Post by irishrockchick on Feb 14, 2012 17:25:35 GMT -5
Who wouldn't love their mom? I still at 26, kiss my folks everynight before turning in. Family can be the most important thing in anyones life. But everyone has different views as to what family is. Without mine I wouldn't be here. I'd give my life for them, especially my wee cute nephew.
Fair play to Gerry. I hope that one day he gets to build one for himself.
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Post by Maddie on Feb 15, 2012 3:56:16 GMT -5
love what you said Dianne <3
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Post by canadia on Feb 16, 2012 20:30:09 GMT -5
Dianne mentions abandonment issues and that really is a very large part of what was going on, along with his feeling he needed to meet the expectations of his mother and no doubt other people's expectations of him at this age and that is Gerry's father suddenly reappearing in his life at age 16, and then his father dying when he was age 22 I believe. And his mother could not have been totally happy with Gerry spending so much time from the ex husband she ran back to Scotland to get away from,and even Gerry said he figured out his father showed up at the point where he could no longer be pursued for child support, given he had not paid any. [We call those kind of men deadbeats round here]
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Post by Dianne on Feb 16, 2012 20:55:18 GMT -5
Canadia wrote: Can you imagine how hard it was on everyone involved here? The thing is though. As hard as some of life's lessons are and we cry, scream and kick through it sometimes, it does mold us into who we are today. Life has beat my ass a few times myself and I have come out of it wiser. If everything had been completely easy for Gerry his entire life, we all may not be sitting here enjoying each other's company, and the pictures (movies and videos included) of this wonderful man. Gerry would probably be and attorney in Scotland, living an upper middle class life with a wife and two and 1/2 kids. Bet he'd have a dog too and a pool in his back yard like he had as a kid. One more thing.... Don't feed me to the sharks ladies but like a lot of normal people Gerry does have the chubby gene or maybe it's that he likes to eat and he would be sporting an extra 20 pounds I'm afraid. I mean with no incentive to keep that famous six pack. Anyway, more cushion for the pushin...WHOOOT!    |
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Post by terezoulini on Feb 16, 2012 23:51:39 GMT -5
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