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It’s always a good day when there’s some lovely piece of Gerard Butler news. But today is double the excitement because there’s a new Gerard interview, and a new “hot guy” poll coming out of England. It seems someone in Great Britain decided to do a poll on the best exposed male chest/torso scenes in films. The clear winner was Daniel Craig, in Casino Royale (the part where he’s wearing those little baby-blue trunks and coming out of the ocean - swoon!). The second place went to Gerard, for basically every scene in 300. He was wearing a little loin-cloth and nothing else for most of that film. Oh, yeah, there was the cape. That cape rocked. That cape costars in my sexual fantasies. Mm… what was I saying? Third place was Brad Pitt in Troy (meh); fourth was Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (gross); fifth was Sean Connery in Thunderball (nice).
Now, for the Gerard Butler interview. He did it with a site called Short List, and it’s actually pretty long. I’m going to try to avoid putting the whole thing up, but it is a very interesting read (his interviews are usually pretty good), so if you’d like to see the whole thing, try this. Gerry talks about his new film, Gamer, and all of the stunt work the role entailed. He says he got really hurt on a jagged piece of metal when he was hanging upside down for one stunt - but he also says “There’s many times in which I could have sued and made a lot of money. But you don’t want to become known in Hollywood as that guy that sues.” I’m sure a lot of people will find the discussion of James Bond interesting:
True of false, you were in Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies?
Oh man, I forgot about that. That’s true. I had one line in it and they took it off me. It was like “torpedoes are bearing 11 knots” or something. The director couldn’t understand what I was saying because of my accent, and they gave it to a really effeminate chap. He was a good bloke, but he delivered the line like it was a piece of gossip. I was gutted.Could you picture yourself as James Bond?
No.Why?
Because I enjoy doing an array of films. If I was to play Bond that would quickly stop. How likely would I be accepted doing those roles after having played Bond? People outside the world of movies think “how amazing it must be to play 007” but as an actor you think “well, I don’t know because, from then on…”You’re Bond.
Exactly. [Butler gets to his feet and paces the room with enthusiasm] It’s like Christopher Plummer in the Sound of Music. Great actor, but he will forever be remembered as that guy from The Sound of Music. But, think about it, it would be far worse. You do a lot of movies as Bond and you’d become even more synonymous with the role. I think Daniel Craig is a great Bond and good for him, but I would much rather create a role from nothing. I feel blessed to have done 300 because I think it will go down as a seminal movie and a classic. And it came out of nowhere.What was the funniest moment on the set of Gamer?
[Butler is chuckling] This is going to show my maturity now, I wrote to the two directors separately. I wrote that me and the stunt guys are having a blast and sent them half a dozen donuts each as a thank you. They were so chuffed. The next day we got six fresh donuts and shoved them between our ass cheeks… and took a Polaroid. [Butler is in fits] We sent this snap to the directors and sure enough, they thought they’d been eating the very same sugary treats. They freaked out, man.That’s pretty sick.
I told you it was going to show my maturity. It was my birthday that day, and in the evening about ten of the cast also dropped trousers to reveal Happy Birthday Gerry written across their cheeks. Come to think of it, there was a little too much ass in the making of this film.When’s the next RocknRolla movie?
There’s another film where I showed my ass. I’m hardly following the same career path trajectory as George Clooney, right? Umm… RocknRolla. Okay, no, no word. I believe Guy’s written the second, I don’t know about the third. And I’ve heard nothing.Can you understand where Christian Bale’s aggression came from on the set of Terminator Salvation?
Absolutely. [Butler’s on his feet again] I’ve lost my temper on sets – never really screamed for a whole crew to hear, I try to keep it a little more private – but there’s times on set when it’s such a passionate business. There’s still things from 8 years ago, ideas I wasn’t given or something that didn’t go my way and I believed wholeheartedly in and once it’s gone it’s gone and that would eat me up. I couldn’t sleep for days.Honestly now, why do actors and actresses always end up together? Is it a PR thing?
There’s no hard and fast rule. There are some bondings and relationships that look very politically correct – and they just look right and that’s what motivates them. I think sometimes that helps buffet each other’s careers, but for others it’s absolutely genuine. Honestly, the pressures and the weirdness when you get to a certain level of acting can’t be understood by anyone other than those that have been there. More than that, I think that when you act with someone it’s an extremely bonding experience. You open yourself up so much. You experiment so much. You handover so much of your emotion to whoever you’re opposite that it pulls you together. You establish a closeness. It’s completely understandable that people completely fall in love on a film set, they can be incredibly intense places.
[From Short List]
God, I love when he talks about getting his ass out. But that story about his practical joke was totally gross. Although now I keep thinking about sugary treats draped over Gerard’s body… not quite as good as my fantasies of his wang dipped in chocolate, but it’s still a solid fantasy. As for those Bond rumors - yeah, I doubt anything will ever come of it. Gerard shouldn’t and wouldn’t play Bond, and I think the Bond producers are very happy with Daniel Craig. Mm… Daniel Craig… Gerard Butler… doughnuts… and a cape! My new fantasy.
Photos are stills from 2007’s 300 and 2006’s Casino Royale
Gerard Butler has already won my heart with his sexy Scottish accent, his cauliflower ears, his killer biceps and his “I’m Hollywood and I’ll f-ck anything with two legs and a pulse” attitude. But now he’s trying to become my soulmate. Because the way to my soul is through my stomach. Specifically, the way to my soul is through food that is battered and deep fried into oblivion. This is what Gerard likes - or so he admits to OK! Magazine UK. If Gerard had his way, he would live on batter-fried carby goodness and sugary everything forever and ever. I’m not with him on the sugary stuff - as I prefer salty to sweet - but now my sexual fantasies of Gerard will include him feeding me French fries, fried chicken strips and his wang dipped in butter or chocolate (too much?). Our first date will be at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, I just know it. Gerard also talks about how his soul is not only fried in lard, it’s also brooding and Scottish.
Actor Gerard Butler has revealed he craves fried foods popular in his homeland.
The Scottish hunk struggles to stick to the healthy eating plans he has adhere to while shooting movies, and often yearns for the calorific delicacies of his home country.
He said: “I used to live right above a fish and chip shop and I used to live on those fish and chips and the king rib supper. I diet when I have to, but I have big problems, depending on my motivation.”
“That’s the part of Scotland that haunts me - wanting to eat as many carbohydrates and as much sugar as possible.”
Although the 39-year-old screen hunk is a big fan of Scotland’s more unhealthy cuisine, one local dish he has never tried is the notorious deep-fried Mars Bar – which involves the world-famous chocolate bar being battered and fried.
He added: “I’ve never had one! It’s like a phantom to me, I hear about it but I’ve never seen it on a menu in a fish and chip shop.”
As well as pining for Scottish food, Gerard also misses the country - even though he realises he needs to live in the U.S. for the sake of his career.
The Ugly Truth actor – who has homes in New York and Los Angeles – said: “America’s where I live but it never feels like where my soul is.”
“When I come back to Scotland, I go, ‘This is it.’ It’s everything. Everything I am is Scottish. It’s what gave me every part of my personality.”
[From OK! Magazine]
I’ve never had a deep-fried candy bar either - but I’ve had opportunities. It’s not just a local “delicacy” in Scotland, it’s also pretty popular at fairs and carnivals here in the South. When I do have a taste for something sweet and sugary (you know when, PMSers) even I think a deep-fried candy bar is too much.
So here’s my new Gerard Butler fantasy: I’m lounging around in bed when Gerard walks in, naked and carrying a tray of deep-fried treats… he says, “You’re looking much too thin! You must eat something. I’ll give you a kiss for every French fry you eat!” Mm…
Hey remember how we were worried about Gerard’s moobs? I think we know the cause now. Here are Gerard and his moobs in Manhattan on August 16th. Photos thanks to Pacific Coast News.
Here’s something you should know about me - when I fall for a celebrity, really, totally and completely adore a celebrity, it takes me a while to see any faults, any cracks in their perfect (in my mind) persona. I’m at that utter devotion state with Gerard Butler - he’s been atop my “Favorite Guy To Fantasize About When I’m Going To Sleep” list for the better part of a year and a half. No movie star has had this kind of run since the “Golden Fantasy Era” of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Malkovich and Eddie Vedder. Gerard is special.
Even when Gerard occasionally grosses me out (like when he’s rubbing Jennifer Aniston’s thigh or whatever), I’m still quite fond of him. Truthfully, I know that the Gerry that exists in my head is probably nothing like the real man. I’d still like to think the real Gerry has some of the qualities I have attributed to him - I’d like to think he’s sweet, funny, flirtatious and dirty. But it’s gotten to the point where real life has intruded on my fantasy. I have to shamefully acknowledge that there’s probably something really wrong with him. “Wrong” as in “skeezy”. “Wrong” as is “the guy is probably a major douchenozzle.”
Such is the story that LaineyGossip put up Monday afternoon. Lainey described two different stories about Gerard and how he behaves around women. One I buy, one I don’t. The first was a story about how he was coming on to a journalist who told him something like “I’m a journalist so I’m off limits.” Allegedly, Gerard responded “No, you’re not off limits.” Okay… I buy that, but it doesn’t really turn me off. He’s confident, he’s flirty, and I probably would have been all over that. The other story wasn’t so pleasant. It involved Gerry propositioning a drunk girl, trying to get her to take off her clothes and dance. Ew… gross.
Gerry is just starting a new promotional tour, this one for Gamer, the movie where he plays some kind of flesh-and-blood video game “character” who spends most of the movie running around killing things. Needless to say, it’s a boy movie. Gerry gave an interview to the New York Daily News to promote Gamer. It’s a sort of boring interview, but I like the part where Gerry takes about how his mom won’t let him get away with stuff:
Filming the intense action sequences for “Gamer,” opening Friday — in which Gerard Butler, the 39-year-old Scottish actor, plays a wrongfully convicted soldier forced to join a human video game — took a physical toll.
There were stuntmen firing all kinds of guns and pyrotechnics all around him during the big action sequences. Despite the frigid winter temperatures in Albuquerque, where the movie was filmed, he was constantly being sprayed with freezing-cold water to make it look like he was drenched in sweat.
“You’d be doing some takes where there would be 15 to 20 explosions [that] were all around you, and you’d have to know where you were going or you were going to get blown up,” says Butler from the safety of a couch in a mid-Manhattan hotel room. “I’ve got to say, in this movie, there were many times I was hit by flying debris from explosions or from squibs that would bang against your face or your head,” he says. “You’d get little injuries, but you move on, it’s part of the adrenaline.”
“It all starts with the fact that Gerard Butler is a hell of a good actor and has a wonderful sense of humor,” said Richard Donner, Butler’s director on the 2003 action movie “Timeline,” via e-mail. “He’s ‘a man’s man’, the kind of a person you want to go have a couple of beers with.”
He won’t just take any old role. For “Gamer,” he signed on only when filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the brains behind the “Crank” movies, convinced him of the film’s deeper allegory about society’s increasing overdependence on technology — sandwiched between explosions and haymakers, of course.
Dealing with paparazzi, he says, is one of the toughest things to get used to. They materialize suddenly, one recently catching Butler sitting outdoors at a restaurant and telling the actor that he wanted to snap him in the act of eating.
‘It was almost like holding out a [stick] for a dog,” says Butler, laughing at the memory. “Every time I got my fork, he picked his camera up, so I put it down again and he put his camera down. Then I’d pick it up again. ” This went on for 15 minutes.
“The only time I could eat was when a bus went past or a truck. Then literally the truck would stop and I go boom, boom, boom and I’d shovel the food in,” he said demonstrating frenetically with an imaginary utensil.
As much as he loves New York — and Los Angeles, where he splits his time — his occasional return trips to visit his family in Glasgow keep Butler grounded. He says he comes from a passionate people that was fighting among itself long before the English arrived. That “fire” fuels his performances.
And no one is willing to mix it up with the 6-foot-2 actor like his mother, Margaret. “I go home and they’ll cook Christmas dinner, and she’s like, ‘C’mon, give a hand, come on, wash the dishes or put the dishes away.’ “And I’m like, ‘Mom, I am a major Hollywood movie star, I can’t be doing this. It’s embarrassing.’ ”
But when his mother isn’t impressed, “I end up on my hands and knees, wiping up the floor.”
[From the New York Daily News]
What’s the verdict? Is Gerard just a mama’s boy who refuses to grow up? Is he a douche who treats women like crap? Is he the guy in the blind item who hires hookers for the “fan experience” to feed his bottomless ego? Or is he just bidding his time, waiting for me to find him so we can settle down and have hot half-Scottish babies? Sigh. He’s a douche, isn’t he?
Screw you guys. I’m still going to fantasize about him.
Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston are shown on the set of The Bounty on 8/24/09. Credit: Steve Sands/Bauergriffinonline.com
Leading online dating websites Date.com, Matchmaker.com, and Amor.com have polled their members to see who they think are the sexiest singles of the Summer of 2009. With no surprise, 95% of members thought Jennifer Aniston was the hottest female, while 98% thought Bradley Cooper was the hottest male! So, how did everyone else stack up??
Who is Summer 2009’s sexiest single?
Women
Men
Madonna got 33%…really?! Really?! I would have believed 3%! And…Simon Cowell got 86.4%…REALLY?! He got a better score than Nick Lachey and Leonardo DiCaprio?! What is wrong with ladies these days. I guess the problem is…they polled these dating sites! If you have resulted to a dating site to find someone, perhaps your hot-o-meter is off! That is all I can think of!
Gerard Butler joined Jennifer Aniston on the NYC set of The Bounty yesterday after their supposed dates over the weekend. The costars looked cozy as usual on set, despite the fact that Gerard is now dealing with some pet drama. His pug Lolita was apparently attacked by a greyhound this week, though the other dog's owners are saying Gerard hit their pet unprovoked. Sounds like a stressful distraction for Gerard's busy work schedule, which also includes promoting his new movie The Gamer before its release on September 4.
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