“I performed music, I danced round, and I ate Chinese language meals in there,” he shared. “It made me really feel like I actually lived there. I slept there all evening, and I woke as much as the crew coming in whereas I used to be in my underwear.”
Austin Butler is taking methodology appearing to a complete new stage.
The Oscar-nominated actor revealed that whereas filming his upcoming thriller Caught Stealing, he really spent the evening within the East Village condo set the place his character Hank lives.
“For one evening, I had the entire condo to myself,” Butler advised Selection. “I performed music, I danced round, and I ate Chinese language meals in there. It made me really feel like I actually lived there. I slept there all evening, and I woke as much as the crew coming in whereas I used to be in my underwear.”
Butler defined the bizarre sleepover helped him absolutely immerse himself within the function.
“It made it really feel prefer it wasn’t a set anymore,” he mentioned. “There are numerous issues that conspire towards you once you’re making a film. You’ve got acquired the lights and the digital camera and the set does not have a ceiling, as a result of they have to mild it from above. It is tempting to go searching and break the phantasm. So the extra I can do to trick myself, the extra necessary it’s.”
In contrast to a few of his extra transformative roles, like Evlis, which noticed Butler grasp Elvis Presley’s iconic voice, or bulking up as Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Half Two, the 34-year-old actor admitted Caught Stealing compelled him to play nearer to himself.
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“It scared me,” he confessed. “One of many causes I acquired into appearing within the first place was that I’m very shy. Attending to play characters let me placed on this different pores and skin and placed on this different voice and turn into this different particular person. That made me be at liberty. However enjoying a personality that feels extra like myself left me with nowhere to cover and made me really feel susceptible.”
Butler mentioned he nonetheless labored on embodying Hank, an ex-baseball participant turned bartender who falls into harmful territory.
“He wanted to have the physicality of any person who was an elite athlete, however who was not in peak bodily form,” he defined. “I needed to have a sure thickness. So I labored out, however I additionally drank lots of beer.”
Director Darren Aronofsky, who tailored the movie from a graphic novel, mentioned Butler typically went slightly too deep into character.
“Austin goes actually deep,” Aronofsky shared. “The truth is, I typically requested him to work rather less exhausting and to chill out slightly bit as a result of I needed a sure looseness.”
Aronofsky added that Caught Stealing is supposed to really feel like a throwback.
“I needed to make a movie about somebody folks can relate to,” he mentioned. “Hank is a reasonably good man. He isn’t hurting anybody. He is only a small city boy in an enormous metropolis, and the world sort of crumbles round him. It is good to have a hero who does not have a cape and is a traditional particular person.”
Butler admitted that Hank’s flaws weren’t all the time straightforward to embrace.
“Generally I would go, ‘Man, I wish to like Hank extra,'” Butler mentioned. “I would like him to make higher choices. I virtually began to really feel the seeds of judgment for my character. And that is harmful. That is one thing I wanted to avoid. So lots of my journey was discovering his good coronary heart.”
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Set within the late ’90s, the story follows Hank as a easy favor — taking care of a neighbor’s cat — spirals right into a battle with cops, the Russian mob and Hasidic hitmen.
“There’s lots of miscommunication concerned in our story,” Aronofsky defined. “And that is exhausting when you have it happen at a time when everybody has a cellphone and is so deeply on-line.”
The director added that the nostalgic backdrop shall be a part of the enjoyable for audiences.
“There was one thing actually enjoyable concerning the ’90s,” Aronofsky mentioned. “The music was wonderful, the Soviet Union had collapsed and the one factor folks had been frightened of was Y2K. Our largest controversy was the president’s extramarital affair. Audiences will hopefully get pleasure from going again to all that and seeing answering machines and pay telephones once more.”
Caught Stealing hits theaters August 29.
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