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“When 300 came along, I had said, ‘I am never doing a sword and sandals movie again,’ and then 300 came along and I thought, ‘I’ve got to do that’.
He felt the same amount of enthusiasm for Den Of Thieves, in which Big Nick and his crew attempt to take down a crime gang, which includes Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Orange Is The New Black’s Pablo Schreiber, as they plot to rob the Los Angeles Federal Reserve, the bank for banks.
Butler even paid his own visit to the Fed in Los Angeles and was bowled over by what he saw.
“There was one room that had at least a trillion dollars in there.
“It was interesting to go through there and see all the safeguards they have and, even though they know we are there making a movie, they can never once let us out of their sight.
“We had to have a guard behind us to make sure that none of us were looking at the wrong things but I’m a bad boy, I’ve always got to look at the wrong thing.
“It was just incredible to see that amount of money and the processes for everything, to count the money, to check the money, to look for impurities, imperfections, the amount of money that is destroyed every day.”