Gerard Talks Beowulf in Capri

Gerard Butler certainly has his opinions. The “Phantom of the Opera” star blabbed that he originally hated the script for his upcoming film “Beowulf and Grendel,” derived from the 11th-century Old English epic. “Actually, I thought the script was a piece of [bleep],” Butler informed a crowd at Italy’s Capri Hollywood Film Festival. “Then I read it again. I got to see the location and hear the music. And, I saw the helmet that I could wear.” The Scottish star accepted the role soon after. To hell with centuries of literary tradition – we’ll take a cool helmet any day.