Gerard Butler Press Conference in Japan “Once I start talking, I can’t stop.” Gerry seems so cool on the outside, but he in person seems surprisingly eager to talk. In the entire one-hour press conference today, Gerry was able to answer only 4 questions altogether...
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The New Beowulf
On the southern coast an international group of moviemakers and world famous actors are working on themost expensive movie ever made here. The film is caledBeowulf and Grendel and is inspired by ancient norse stories, with ealborate scenography, costumes, and fighting...
Scared Every Night
Sturla Gunnarsson moved to Canada at the age of six but has returned to make his dream of making a film in Iceland come true. When Sturla is asked whether he speaks his mother tongue he answers, in icelandic: “Not a word!” The interview then takes place in icelandic....
World Fame Around the Corner
Gerry Butler’s last movie was the Phantom of the Opera that’s predicted to be one of next winter’s most popular movies. We have waited almost all evening in Hotel Höfðabrekka for the man in the leading role to come “home” after a few days off from filming. The clock...
“Gerard Butler: The Man of Many Faces”
The name Gerard Butler will probably not ring a bell to many. What makes this 35 year-old interesting is that he is from Scotland (yes, he wears kilts), and is currently touted as being the next big thing in Hollywood. Some might have heard Butler’s name in “Who’s the...
The Phantom of the Opera – Gerard Butler
[Thanks to Mina for the translation] Cinema Interview He was selected as the position whom he longed for very much. How is the real face of him who played "Phantom" ,who highly praised even Lord ALW ? "In fact, I changed my job to an actor right before I became a...
Gerard Butler is Hollywood’s new sex symbol. And, he’s single…
Thanks to Ally and Danny_Flux for the translation. His deep, smokey voice serves to emphasise his sex appeal: Gerard Butler, noticeable as Angelina Jolie's Lover in "Tomb Raider II: Cradle of Life", and arousing in "Phantom of the Opera", is a complete guy: broad...
KATHLEEN FACES UP TO BIRTHMARK
SCOTS actress Kathleen McDermott can't wait to see how her face will look for the new Burns film with Gerard Butler. Kathleen, who plays Burns' lover Jenny Clow in the multi-million pound biopic which will be filmed in July, has discovered that her character has a...
BUTLER’S EPIC TALE OF TERROR
HOLLYWOOD star Gerard Butler yesterday told of his terror after being hit by hurricane winds in Iceland while filming his latest movie. The Phantom of the Opera star revealed that production of Beowulf & Grendel was almost scrapped after four actors were blown off...
Man On Fire
The hunk behind the mask in “Phantom” is the hot new face in Hollywood. In the bittersweet drama “Dear Frankie” and this month’s feel-good soccer flick, “The Game of Their Lives,” Scottish actor Gerard Butler shows us he’s more than just a cape-swirling crooner....
L’uomo Vogue
Now he is a star. He’s been one for a short time -a typical case of an overnight celebrity- since the premiere of “The Phantom of the Opera” of which Gerard Butler (35 years old since last November) is the protagonist with the title role. Yet no one can recognize in...
‘dear Frankie’ Embraced By Its Star
It's an unseasonable cool, gloomy morning in Los Angeles, but Glasgow-born Gerard Butler is all smiles, and no wonder. The Scottish actor's career is in high gear these days, and his diverse talents can be seen in two recent and very different releases: the...
‘Phantom’ star tackles romantic role in ‘Dear Frankie’
A disorder I like to call "Compulsive Actor Lustitis" is sweeping the country. This affliction causes otherwise normal women to spend an inordinate amount of time devising crafty excuses for breaking romantic dinner plans with the men in their lives to pine over their...
Fatherless son
QUESTION: How's life after Phantom of the Opera? ANSWER: Well, I feel a lot more heat and tension these days, in a good way. I try to play that down. I use it almost as a comfort factor, that I'm doing well and am appreciated. But I don't let it go to my head because...
YOUR NAME MAY NOT BE ON THE LIST BUT IT SUITS YOU, SIR
WHEN IT COMES to the colour green, I'm with Kermit. It's really not an easy shade to pull off in an outfit, thanks to its undertones of school uniforms, elves and a certain Glasgow football team. Last year's fashion for all things of a grassy hue had me scuttling back...
DRESS TO KILT IN NEW YORK
THE DRESS code is uncompromising: "Collared shirts for men. No trainers, work boots, baggy clothes, hats or men wearing chained jewellery. Dress jeans only. " That would usually rule out everyone up to and including a Village People tribute band. But this week the...
BBC’S BURNS DRAMA LOSES POETIC LICENCE
A NEW television drama which paints a somewhat unflattering portrait of Rabbie Burns has been quietly shelved by the BBC. Loving Burns, which had Robert Carlyle, below, earmarked for the starring role, portrays the famous bard as a predator who sexually abused his...
Trading Faces
Gerard Butler, known as Gerry (the name that suits him better), was leaning against the wall in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel, thinking of ways to ''energize.'' He said he was exhausted, but it didn't show. Butler is very tall, and his roundish face is animated by...
I DUCKED OUT OF THE OSCARS TO READ A GOOD BOOK
For most top actors, the whirlwind social scene is a major plus point of the business - but not for Scot Gerard Butler, who just can't wait to get home and switch on the TV AMID the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, it's rare to find a star who prefers solitude to a...
A Sunny Side of Scotland
With two movies in theaters and many more on the horizon, actor Gerard Butler is upholding the tradition of such countrymen as Robert Carlyle, John Hannah and Sean Connery. The heavy Scottish brogue singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me across the telephone line belongs to...
BUTLER WATCHES LIGHTNING STRIKE A MAN IN AUSTRALIA
Scottish actor GERARD BUTLER had a shocking experience during his recent trip to Australia, when he saw a man get struck by lightning. The PHANTOM OF THE OPERA star took a break and travelled around Australia after a tour of Asia, and he was stunned when a rainy day...
Gerard Butler Talks About “Dear Frankie”
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‘The Phantom Comes To Life, Once More’
After treading the boards in countless plays, Gerard Butler took roles in dubious movies like 'Reign Of Fire,' 'Lara Croft: The Cradle Of Life' and Richard Donner's 'Timeline.' Recently though, he scored a critical hit with upcoming Scottish drama 'Dear Frankie'...
The man behind the mask;Gerald Butler, star of the movie version of Phantom of the Opera tells Ciaran Carty that playing the role almost broke his heart
MEET the Phantom of the Opera. Or rather Gerard Butler. That's who he is without his mask and flowing cape. Except that even as himself he's still somehow the phantom. He finds it hard to step out of the role. "I'm that guy, " he says. Fans of the Andrew Lloyd Webber...
Double dose of Beowulf set to run rings round rivals
He is the original action hero, a fearless Norse warrior who slew a vicious troll and helped inspire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. And he is coming to a cinema near you. The race to turn Beowulf, the hero of the first great poem written in English, into a box-office...