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and down a mountain.
“By the time I’d finished that both knees were [expletive]. And then I had a motorbike accident where I landed on my knees, so it’s been an interesting year of challenges.”
Born in Paisley, on the outskirts of Glasgow, Butler broke Hollywood with his legendary rippling washboard abs as marauding King Leonidas in Zack Snyder’s 300.
His more than two dozen roles since have included a gangster in Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla (2009), a vigilante killer in Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and an alcoholic drug-abusing biker in Machine Gun Preacher (2011). He has also shown his soft side in romantic comedies like 2007’s P.S. I Love You, The Ugly Truth in 2009 and opposite Jennifer Anniston in The Bounty Hunter (2010).
His latest project, Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves, opened two weeks ago to lukewarm reviews but has matched its production budget with a respectable box office. His 48th movie, it follows the intersecting lives of the major crimes unit of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department — known as the “Regulators” — and the “Outlaws,” an elite band of robbers.
With an ensemble cast that includes hip hop star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, rapper Ice Cube’s son UAE cinemas. Evan Jones, Pablo Schreiber, 50 Cent, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. O’Shea Jackson Jr and a particularly buff looking Pablo Schreiber, it may be the first movie in which Butler has had serious competition for the position of Alpha Male.
“I haven’t seen that amount of testosterone and kind of alpha, predator, apex energy since 300 — and even then not as much among the lead characters,” he joked.
He admitted there was a “healthy sizing each other up” on set but added that it was nice to work with “a bunch of good dudes with good hearts.”
No movie is above scrutiny is now playing in Gerard Butler in ‘Den of Thieves’.
from the Hollywood press when it comes to gender and racial diversity, and not even a selfconsciously macho heist movie gets a pass.
Butler and his co-stars were asked at a recent press conference why there weren’t more women in lead roles in Den of Thieves and batted the question politely into the long grass.
We asked Butler afterwards if he thought the pressure for every movie to tick diversity boxes was unrealistic and he paused as he measured the tone of his response. “I think sometimes that pressure is fair. It’s a movement I can get behind and I understand it,” he ventured.
“But then when people try and apply it to everything, including a movie about a bunch of male undercover cops and a gang of ex-military and say, ‘Shouldn’t you have some women in there?’ — then no.
“You pay lip service to the question and you smile and move on.” —AFP