GERRY BUTLER burst into a Soho club like a bat out of hell. To add to that impression, he was wearing a long black leather jacket with red silk lining. As it happens, the dashing actor plays the prince of darkness in Dracula 2000, which Miramax Films plan to release...

WE HADN'T met before but, even in the crowded lounge of London's Charlotte Street Hotel there was no mistaking Gerard Butler. And not just because I recognised him from the big screen. Sure, the slim, dark-haired Scot was the only movie star in the room. But while...

Star of Dracula 2000 age: "Thirty-one. My goal for this year would be to continue tasting some of the success I had in my 30th year. I loved it." scot free: "I love to get back to Scotland [my home]. My mother and I like to go walking through the hills, right into the...

GERARD Butler is excited, but not because he is just about to go on the London Eye for a ride on the city's newest tourist attraction. The adrenalin is pumping because the 29-year-old Scottish actor's dreams are all starting to slip into place. He has just been cast...

This time, Dracula is a Glaswegian. As the curtains are raised tomorrow on Wes Craven's latest gorefest, Dracula 2001, it won't be the grim, powdered face of Christopher Lee staring back at the whimpering audience. Instead, it will be that of Gerard Butler, a...

Gerard Butler sits in the Dorchester Hotel after being rushed in from the set of his new film. He has something of a Wolverine look, mixed in with a little Dougray Scott( the actor originally picked for that mutant role). His shoulder length hair and lyrical Scottish...

You get your Kicks walking in front of cars. but what do you do if that's not enough? you go to hollywood The couch is worrying. Its pale green bulk fills a fair portion of the intimate back room, little more than a snug, in London's Soho House where I'm to talk to...