А кадр и правда из Лары :)

И что тогда получается? Какое отношение Терри Шеридан имеет к фильму "Призрак оперы"?
Между прочим, на этой фотографии мы видим человека агрессивного и не слишком далекого - выражение лица такое. Мне не нравится, что именно она иллюстрирует материал, потому что ни у Призрака, ни у Батлера в жизни выражение лица мягко говоря не такое. :-)

Нора, может быть, м-р Рич намеренно выбрал именно это фото, ведь в его статье Джерри, то есть, прошу прощения, Призрак, "приземлённый", а ещё "материальный" и "истеричный". Ну что же, это его мнение.
А я пока что ссылочку презентую: любимый Джерри :love
Кто любит классического Джерри? :ale:

Г-н Рич, как всегда разнес все в пух и прах. Но он Веббера никогда не любил.

:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Воистину.

Ну, конечно. :-)))
А для начала, может быть, поделитесь странными ощущениями. :-)))
И сюда можно несколько штук запостить. У меня вот совершенно нету времени там по ссылкам ходить, жалко. :-/

Ну не знаю, как насчёт странных ощущений (пусть TinySparrow прокомментирует, ей виднее;)), но я пробежалась по диагонали по одному из интервью и получила, так сказать, однозначный ответ "из первых рук" по поводу цвета глаз - больше вопросов по этому поводу не имею:D И вообще, будем теперь знать, что дискуссии по этому вопросу раздражают мистера:D

По поводу моих ощущений :) Я, может быть, слишком сильно выразилась... Я прочитала подряд несколько интервью, в которых Джерри, по сути, говорит об одних и тех же этапах его жизни - говорит каждый раз немного по-разному, но содержание одно и то же (что в принципе естественно). Странной была ситуация: прочитала -дцать листов, а сути - на полстраницы. :) Сначала была мысль: и как ему не надоело? А потом: какое терпение у человека. И ещё, сложилось стойкое впечатление, что Джерри если не очаровал всех интервьюеров, то уж расположил к себе точно. Мистер Обаяние :D Но это как раз НЕ странно ;)
Парочку интервью без проблем могу сюда вставить, только они достаточно объёмные. Есть ещё несколько, так что если будет интересно - обращайтесь.

Gerard Butler
He ditched his suits and briefs for a life of villains, spooks, and vampires. Now he’s the man behind the mask.
Taking on the titular role in Joel Shumacher’s new film adaptation of ALW’s Phantom of the Opera, which MC made famous on the stage, would be a tall order for any actor. But thankfully, broad-shouldered 6-foot-4 Gerard Butler was more than up to the task. It’s a watershed performance for the 35-year-old Scot, who has quietly built a reputation for bringing a depth to complicated, often quixotic lead characters in smaller eponymous films like "D2K" and "Atilla" (2001). But now Butler’s profile is about to become more concomitant with his physical stature with his roles in "Phantom" and another new film, “Dear Frankie,” in which he portrays a mysterious man who masquerades as a child’s long-lost father to a hapless single mom played by Emily Mortimer. She caught up with Butler in Iceland, on the set of his latest movie, "B&G."
Emily (EM): So, "The Phantom of the Opera"—I want you to tell me all about it. But first, you didn’t really know you could sing before you started working on it, did you?
Gerard (GB): Well, I had sung in a rock band before, so I knew I could hold a couple of notes; but that was just for fun, and there was a lot of screaming. For pleasure, I’d always preferred to sing ballads and more emotional music. So, strangely enough, when "Phantom" came along, it just seemed to make sense. I took two lessons before I met Joel. I didn’t want to embarrass myself because I felt that eventually I’d have to sing for both Joel and ALW. So, I wound up at Andrew’s house, singing in a room that wasn’t really designed for singing, with ALW sitting at the back. And I thought to myself, “What am I doing here? I can’t sing.” (laughs) It was awful. As you know, all of this happened while we were filming “Dear Frankie” together.
EM: Yes, I remember. Every time there was a break, I’d see you standing with your head in your hands, singing to your shoes. (laughs) You also talked about how you really related to the sadness in the Phantom, and that you used that to ground him in reality.
GB: That was something both Joel and I agreed on. The role of the Phantom always seemed very theatrical, and I didn’t really get it until I listened to the music. It was then that I really understood the human element of his journey, his longing for love and companionship. Here was a man who had so much to give, and in so many ways had just been reviled by everybody. I think in the lonelier points of my own life, I’ve either felt that or been scared that I could find myself in that place.
EM: Your characters always have names like “the Phantom” or “Atilla” or “Dracula” or “Beowulf,” who you’re playing now. Do you have a secret yearning to play an accountant named Brian?
GB: (laughs) Well, the upshot is that most of those characters have been title roles.
EM: Then I really want to see you in a movie called “Brian.” (Butler laughs) We’ve also got to talk about “Dear Frankie,” in which your character is called, of all things, “the Stranger.” Every woman journalist who talks to me about this movie has asked me what it was like kissing Gerry Butler.
GB: Sorry. Hold up—How was it kissing Gerry Butler?
EM: It was excellent, especially in retrospect because I’ve been making all these women so furious with jealousy. What was it like for you going back to Scotland and shooting there?
GB: It was amazing just hangin’ out in Glasgow and catchin’ up with old friends, because now that my parents have moved to the Highlands, I usually only just pass through. Going to Glasgow really recharges my batteries.
EM: (laughs) Which is interesting since I know that you came into acting quite late in life. You were a lawyer beforehand. Your mom must have been appalled!
GB: (laughs) Well, it was worse than that because I was actually fired from a big law firm in Edinburgh. I had been such a high-flyer up until that point—I was president of my class, tops at my school, I landed a top job with a top firm. But I was miserable. I was drinkin’ too much, and I knew in my heart that being a lawyer was not what I wanted to do. Anyway, at one point I had missed work so often that I was on my final warning—and strangely enough, a week before, I’d gone to see “Trainspotting,” the play, at the Edinburgh Festival, and had my heart broken watching this guy play the lead, Renton, thinking, I know I can do this. So after I missed work again, they let me go. I had to call my mom that night and say “I know you thought I was going to be a lawyer, but I’m not. I’ve just been fired.”
EM: And now I’m going to be a poncey actor!
GB: (both laugh) That literally happened the next day. I packed my bags and moved down to London. It was like free-falling, but there was something incredibly thrilling about it. One day I heard they were auditioning for “Trainspotting” and recasting the role of Renton. I had no agent, so I took a little photo of myself and wrote my number on it. The director called me up, and I went in and read from the book, playing two parts, jumping from seat to seat; I spent the next half hour convincing him that I wasn’t really on drugs. I ended up getting the job, so a year later, I was back at Edinburgh doing “Trainspotting.” Even the people from the law firm came to see it. They loved it.
EM: That sounds like a movie we should make: a lawyer who jacks it all to become an actor.
GB: Yeah. We could call it “What the Butler Saw.”
EM: I think we should call it “Brian.”

Gerry and the face makers
Gerry Butler drives through Hampstead in his Audi TT, past the smart boutiques and lush mansions that “look like something out of Tennessee Williams”, his stomping ground, North London’s Jewish village, a moneyed part of town. It turns out Audi gave him the car for free. Typical, I say. Just when people have got enough money, that’s when they get offered it all for nothing.
Now that Butler’s a Hollywood actor, the lead in a string of upcoming films including The Phantom Of The Opera, Beowulf And Grendel, Dear Frankie and Burns (as in Robert), and earning accordingly, he gets all the perks.
An irreverent Glaswegian, he seems bemused and entertained by this. “I called my assistant,” he says, “and said, half joking, ‘Do you think if I was to ask somebody for a car, they’d give me one?’ She said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘I love those little Audi TTs. Great for nipping about town.’ Actually they’d just been driving me around for an event and I had met their head of marketing and when my assistant called she said, ‘Oh I loved Gerry. He was great. Absolutely, tell him to take his pick.’”
Do you think, I ask, Audi would give me a car?
“If I asked they might.”
This is quite something, given that few people know the name Gerard Butler. For the past four years, he has seemed permanently poised in some kind of purgatory between major stardom and anonymity, consistently landing the big roles and then watching his films take a critical nosedive. He says himself, “I must be coming up for a Guinness Book Of Records in title roles: Attila, Dracula, Beowulf, the Phantom, Burns.”
Dracula 2000 was, according to the New York Times, a “thudding, suspense-free montage of unshocking shock effects”, Rolling Stone magazine summed up Tomb Raider 2 – in which Butler plays Lara Croft’s love interest – with the words “scenery can’t save this blindingly dull sequel” and already there is talk that Phantom Of The Opera is an overstuffed turkey.
Yet Butler’s name keeps floating up to the surface. At one point it was even rumoured that he was being considered for the next James Bond – though he says he was never approached about this.
How does he keep doing it? Partly because he can act (as he demonstrates in the Scottish tearjerker Dear Frankie). And partly, I suspect, because he is an incorrigible flirt. It’s one of his greatest assets. We conduct our interview on Hampstead Heath. “Do you want to get jiggy with it now?” he says as we recline on the grass. “Or shall we leave it till later?”
There’s something of the big kid about him. He watches, distracted, as a kestrel hovers over the grass, then stands up, over-excited. “Look. Has he got one? Is he going down? It’s really unusual to see them hover that low.”
It’s perhaps his mother in him. She was always, he says, watching the wildlife out of the back window, making up stories about the blackbirds, or going out to film the foxes at night. Butler seems to want to talk about his mum. In past interviews he has dwelt rather more on his relationship with his absent father, who left them when he was just a few years old, and it’s as if he wants to correct the balance. She was, he says, the dominant influence on his life: both mother and father to him. A tough lady, not afraid of a fight.
“I hate confrontation, unless I really lose my temper,” he says. “Whereas my mum is very principled and, if people cross that line, she’ll tell them and it doesn’t matter who’s looking or who’s watching or if it’s in public.
“She used to be, ‘Excuse me, I think you’re wrong and I think you better say you’re wrong’. I’d be thinking, ‘Stop it, stop it mum’.”
Just last week he was back in Scotland, hanging out at her house with its big patio and view of the distant mountains. It is, he says, a tonic for his soul. “My mum will say, ‘Get in there and wash those dishes’. I say, ‘Mum, you can’t. I’m a movie star, remember that.’ She’s like, ‘Shut your mouth and get in there’.”
Butler is quite a charmer. This year, perhaps appropriately, he is set to play Robert Burns in Vadim Jean’s biopic. Though Butler talks a lot about Burns’s sensitivity, his connection with his feminine side and his intelligence, his stand-out comment is, “He was a lad. I always think: women wanted to f*** him; guys wanted to be him.”
He is trying to climb inside the poet’s humanity, he says. This is a character he relates to, not just because Burns had a “good and sensitive heart” or because he was a Scot, or because he travelled from Ayr to Edinburgh – just as Butler went from Glasgow to LA – to find fame, but because of “the way he was with women”.
And then comes a confession. “I’m not fantastic at keeping them, you know,” he says. “It’s all very much being in love in that moment but sustaining it for a lifetime doesn’t seem to be something I’ve acquired yet. You know Burns loved women, he loved life, but he loved humanity as well.”
Phantom Of The Opera has been perhaps his biggest challenge so far, a gruelling marathon of costume fittings, prosthetics and laying down track after track of music. He throws a few thoughts and anecdotes out onto the breeze.
There was the time that the director of Phantom, Joel Schumacher, told him, “Listen: you’re going to take a lot of shit from people. Whether you’re the best actor in the world, the best for the role, or what. You’re just going to take a lot of shit because your name is not Michael Crawford [who played the Phantom in the west end musical].”
It seems he felt a bit of a chancer during filming. “A lot of people were watching and they’re saying, ‘Who is this kid?’ I’m saying the same. I’m going: ‘I’m playing the Phantom – what can I give them?’”
Then there was the “mindf***” of playing “a guy who is dressed up as the Phantom who is pretending to be Piangi pretending to be Don Juan” in the Point Of No Return scene. He remembers his audition for Andrew Lloyd Webber, which took place in the composer’s home. As he stood there, a sense of enormity suddenly dawned on him. “I’m standing here thinking, I’m singing this song to the composer, one of the most famous pieces of music, Music Of The Night, and I’ve had three singing sessions and anybody else who might be singing for this role might have been singing for 30 years. I’ve done three hours … and a lot of messing around on my own.”
The singing was, he says, “a big bastard”. Butler, however, wasn’t entirely new to it. Back in the early 1990s, while training to be a lawyer in Edinburgh, he was the lead singer in a band, Speed. “A big hello,” he announces, “to Alan Stewart and Kenny Mullan and all my buddies”.
Anecdotes from those days are shot through with almost hysterical giggles. At the time he was president of the Law Society, while Stewart was secretary. “I remember joining the band and there was a female singer. She ended up leaving because I don’t think she could put up with me. I’d get so screwed up at the gigs and have such a laugh. She said, ‘I’m not singing with him’.
“They did a few gigs with her and said, ‘This is not rock’n’roll. This is Kylie Minogue. We need you back’.”
Recently, while back in Edinburgh, Butler sang with what’s left of the band, reprising an old number which was written about him, Going Down Slow. “It was about, your life is falling apart but you’re with someone you love,” he explains. “It was very much about hedonism and kind of being so intent on a quick fix and a buzz that you would actually smile as things fell apart around you.”
He smiles now, looking back on those times. He really had been going down, spiralling towards self-destruction; not sure what he wanted in life. “You know there’s one thing I could say about large periods of my life: they were a hell of a lot of fun and they were a hell of a lot of pain. I think self-destructive would be a good word to describe it. And I don’t regret one second of any of that … because it allows me to appreciate what I have now all the more.”
Just before he qualified as a lawyer he was sacked from the law firm that employed him. It was as if fate was playing a card, forcing a move. The following day, he moved to London and started his acting career with a small part in Coriolanus. Acting, he says, pulled him back on to the straight and narrow. It became, in a way, his therapy.
Now his main addictions are cigarettes and work. He chainsmokes his way through the morning, listing the countless different ways he has tried to give up: the telephone number he called to order a set of pills called Smokeaways, the hypnosis, the momentary religious conversion, in which he stood in a church and thought, if Jesus died for mankind the least I can do is quit the fags.
It would be great, he thought, to be able to tell people that he had tried everything and then was touched by God. “Four hours later,” he says, “I was like: can I have a packet of Marlboro Reds?”
He did give up for a while, but it didn’t last. He tells a story. A guy called Pat once told him that a buddy of his had said, “You know it’ll be a bad day before you start drinking again, Pat”.
“No,” Pat had replied. “It’ll be a great day before I start drinking. That’s when I’m in trouble.”
For Butler and cigarettes it was the same – the good times found his weak spot. The “great day” was the night his television series Attila was first screened in front of an audience. “This guy at USA Network stood up to introduce Attila and he said, ‘We’ve found this discovery. His name’s Gerard Butler and once you’ve finished here you might want to walk upstairs where he’s playing in Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000.’ Up until that time I had physically and financially already made the change to playing in the big league, but my heart and my soul hadn’t. I thought, Oh my God, this is unbelievable.”
That night he went out and celebrated, someone handed him a cigarette, and – though for two years he hadn’t even wanted one – he took it. He has never managed to stop again. “Unfortunately for me there are certain things that I just shouldn’t do and I can’t do.”
Addiction is something which is never going to leave him, he says. It haunts him in different ways: in the way he throws himself almost obsessive-compulsively into acting, in his attitude to money. “I’ve been a binger in everything in my life and I think I binge in spending as well. I’ll go along and I’ll spend pennies over a week because I just haven’t really done anything. I don’t drink so – you know – so that’s not a huge expense. But then suddenly I’ll find myself spending a fortune in a single shop and I’ll be, ‘Where did that come from?’ It’s just it becomes like a madness that overtakes me. It steps in as a quick obsessive-compulsive fix.”
Money is clearly an issue he grapples with. He always imagined that even if he made a lot he would live modestly, and though he tries to uphold that principle, he admits he does “live well”.
“The other thing is: I believe only by throwing it out do you get it back. You know, I know some people who have quite a lot of money and they’re so tight and I find it disgusting. I find it revolting and I think, Is that how they manage to be rich?”
His attitude to fame has, he says, changed over the years. He likes success. It has, after all, brought him a lot of good things: the comforts of financial security, self-validation, and “an access to good material”.
But he’s not so sure about the actual fame that seems to skulk just around the corner. He recalls that when he stood up on stage to sing with his old band a few months ago, he didn’t enjoy it as much as he expected. “Maybe I always felt singing in a band was ultimately a bit posy. It was about showing off. And obviously that was a part of it when I got into acting at first.
The move down to London and the wish to be an actor was coloured with a feeling of, wouldn’t it be great to be famous? But now I think – having worked with so many famous people – that there aren’t a huge amount of advantages in it.”
There are constant murmurs that he’s the next big thing. So why does he think he still isn’t mobbed in the street?
“I think it’s partly because these characters are all from completely different places and completely different looks,” he suggests. “For instance, I see a photo of me as the Phantom and I’m thinking, Is that me? Or in Attila The Hun, where I had hair down to my arse and a big beard.”
His latest metamorphosis is into curly-locked and bearded Beowulf. “I’ve been watching all these other epics and they’re all running round in skirts, with, you know, blow-dried hair. This is not like that. This is so butch. This is down and dirty. Big heavy chain mail. Because the Vikings were the dudes. They weren’t running around in skirts.”
These days, Butler looks a little older than his 35 years. It’s not so much his appearance, but his manner. He is, he says, “an old soul”. Indeed, he sometimes talks as if he has already done it all and seen it all.
“I think it’s like you travel along on a path,” he says, “where sometimes you venture off course a bit and, when you’re younger, you’re like a young animal who doesn’t know you should stick to that path. So you tend to veer off more sharply than you do as you get older. Then finally, as time goes on, you realise that sticking to the path as much as you can isn’t quite as exciting – but it’s a damn sight nicer.”

Вернулась как с другой планеты. и как приятно видеть,что здесь все по-старому:)
Все уже скачали трейлер к "Игре их жизни"
Да, на следующей неделе по ТВ покажут Власть Огня. Пустячок,а приятно:love

и в галерею новая фотка.:love

и еще одна из нового.
и пожалуйста кто-нибудь переведите статьи. Хочется проникнуться, а у меня с английским давняя "любовь"

Трейлер не качается:( Страницу не находит:( А "Власть огня" - да, ерундовина, мелочь, а всё равно тааак приятно:D:love

Трейлер я успела скачать ещё когда на gb.net на него ссылку давали. Зашла туда найти эту ссылку, а там намечаются большие перемены - All multimedia will be removed from GBNet. We will link to the multimedia forum where other fans, generously offer links to the audio/video on their own servers. GBNet will still accept disks of the video and audio for the archives, but will no longer upload them to the server. И всё в этом духе, и ещё предлагают им материально помочь. Вот так, вся халява рано или поздно заканчивается. :confused:
Кто возьмётся за переводы? ;)
К вопросу о The Game Of Their Lives - парящий Джерри
Это, кажется, уже было
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Просто предыдущая ссылка некорректна, там в конце прицепился тег. Попробуй так: трейлер.

:-))) Да, я тоже так думаю.
А меня пожалуй эта фотография там развеселила и ностальгию навеяла. :-))) Помнится, после коллективного просмотра «Ларки» я про «этого Батлера» слышать не могла без желания сказать что-нибудь гадкое. Поскольку он мне там жутко не понравился, и у меня просто в голове не укладывалось, как «это» может играть Призрака. Давно это было. :-))) Я уж и забывать стала. А тут напомнили. :-)))))

Ну да, наверное, он вынужден повторять одно и то же либо рассказывать о себе самые невероятные байки, чтобы не заскучать – что он иногда и делает. :-))) Оборотная сторона известности – ты должен раз за разом отвечать на одни и те же вопросы, потому что редкий журналист озаботится перелистать твое досье или хотя бы набрать твое имя в поисковике. :-)))
Но те два интервью, которые вы запостили, хотя и говорят об известных фактах, но Батлер в них как-то по-новому приоткрывается. Впечатление умницы он как производил, так и производит, только здесь он еще и ребячливый и очень забавный, но в то же время не дурачится уж совсем, как на ток-шоу – это интервью с Мортимер. Во втором интервью он кажется очень эмоциональным, искренним, не слишком уверенным в себе – мне это странно, честно, не слишком благополучным – несмотря на то, что интервью заканчивается на оптимистичной ноте.
Читать очень интересно по-прежнему.
:-)))

Еще во втором интервью (не с Мортимер, а «Gerry and the face makers») проявилась веселенькая тенденция – обвинить актера в провале «Ловушки времени» и «Ларки» (и «Аттилы», и «Дракулы» заодно). Ну, правильно, ты теперь звезда, тебе и отвечать. :-))) Смешно, правда? Совершенно наоборот обстоит дело: если эти фильмы кто-то сейчас и смотрит, так (за исключением «Ларки» м.б.) почти исключительно из-за Батлера. :-)))

Господи, ну конечно же интересно! Еще как! Спасибище просто :-) и можно еще запостить, если уж они сохранены и на винте лежат. Я бы с большим энтузиазмом чего-нибудь поискала, но пока не представляю, когда я хоть немножко для этого освобожусь. А почитать-то хочется. :-)))

Я сразу говорю, что я не берусь, потому что я английский знаю очень скверно. И это еще мягко сказано. Допущу в переводе какой-нибудь вопиющий ляп и мне будет очень стыдно.
(тихонько) ну может быть с Мортимер попробую перевести. Потому что оно мне очень понравилось. Никто не против?

Просто картина Дейнеки! :-)))

When Genius Turns To Madness
 

Нора, подпишусь под этим утверждением. А я вот и "Лару" смотрела исключительно из-за Джерри, п.ч. не из-за Анджелины же мне её смотреть! А сам фильм особого интереса лично для меня не представляет.
Теперь позвольте вам представить ещё кое-что. Не интервью, но мне показалось весьма забавным.

When Genius Turns to Madness:
Obsessive Compulsive Gerry Disorder

From 1993 to 2004, the prevalence of U.S. adults with "frequent
mental distress" increased from 8.4 percent to 10.1 percent of women,
said a review in the Oct. 22 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. In a surprisingly quick but unquestionably accurate
study, since the December 10 world premiere of the new film, "Phantom
of the Opera," that percentage has gone from 10.1% to almost 70%.
While the difficulty of pinpointing the cause for this dramatic
increase seemed extreme, the answer was realized after two female
psychiatrists fainted and stopped breathing upon seeing a photo that
some people know as "the Red Death." This source of such widespread
mental distress, which includes anything from stress to heart
palpitations to the highly disturbing phenom of 'autocannibalism'
(see below) can be traced to the masked slice'o'sex that is known to
the non-female population as Gerard Butler.
What specialists call Obsessive Compulsive Gerry Disorder, or OCGD to
the acronym enthusiasts of the world, began to creep on the
population in the year 2000 with Scottish actor Gerard Butler playing
Attila the Hun, the only hot Hun in the long, sad history of unhot
Huns and sucking the life out of everyone as Dracula. This led to a
small, but moderately isolated, group of patients that gradually grew
but lost more and more sanity and functionality as time went on. OCGD
is broken down into five stages:
1) OIOTP: Obsessive Inklings of the Phantom: Currently, this is the
most common phase of OCGD. Symptoms may include multiple viewings of
the film, leading to rentals or purchase of other Gerard Butler
movies, constant listening to the soundtrack, or plastering one's
computer background with Butler's adorable face. Danger of mental
stress is comparatively low but in times of relapses, it can be
treated with a cup of tea and a viewing of the Tomb Raider Screen
Test.
2) YPGW: You're Probably Getting Worse: This stage is on the rise and
it is slightly more serious than OIOTP. A sufferer will find
themselves checking Butler's fansites regularly for updates thus
taking up much of the bandwidth of a site, participating in message
boards or chats, buying a Mrs. Butler T-shirt or a "Gerard Butler
mmm, mmm Gooood" Shirt from Ebay or learning the Phantom score on a
piano or other musical instrument. Again, the treatment for OIOTP is
applicable here, but if that's not enough, try cranberry juice,
oysters or watching the Gerry in the mud video from the "Beowulf and
Grendel" website.
3) JDIFG: Just Darn Insane For Gerry: The last stage that one can be
in a marginally functional state. They have probably seen the movie
5+ times, incorporated a rabid devotion of the stage show into their
lives, and constantly check the member list of a website for the last
time "Gerry" or "Tonya" has logged in. Bipolar disorder,
characterized by mood swings of mania and depression and periods of
normal mood in between, accompanies JDIFG. One such case had a
giggling girl stuffing her face with chocolate while watching Butler
ride a horse shirtless and in jeans and then suddenly breaking into
tears when she heard "Christine...I looooove you." In her head. Also,
this may include writing false medical reports about false mental
disorders caused by Gerry. The best cure that we can recommend is
buying a teddy bear and naming it something hideous like Cleetis and
talking to it like it's a friend. Refrain from watching Timeline over
and over, or it will just get worse.
4) GND: Gerry Near-Dementia: Those who are here will probably never
fully recover, even if Hugh Jackman, Clive Owen, Viggo Mortensen
and/or Val Kilmer as Madmartigan were to show up in their bedrooms in
yellow towels. Symptoms: Trips to Gerry film premieres in different
countries, constant (but much appreciated!) fansite development
and/or naming your dogs/kids/dinner after Butler or one of his
characters. Rarely, they resort to violence such as the lady who was
listening to "The Point of No Return" and her dog barked while Butler
sang, and she left it outside for days and it was eaten by rabid
squirrels. Sometimes they are aware of their problem and indulge
in "Gerry Diversion," trying to get their minds off Butler but
actually just becoming more and more delusional. An instance of Gerry
Diversion includes viewing the 1985 film "Mask" or the season 5 X-
Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus" just to feel bad for
someone with a facial deformity. Seek medical attention and avoid
operating heavy machinery.
5) GIAC: Gerry Induced Auto Cannibalism: The most dangerous and
extreme stage of OCGD. Every thought revolves around Mr. Butler. Your
car is named Gerry. Your husband who you don't have is named Gerry.
Your cup is named Gerry. Your sink is named Gerry. After diagnoses,
confinement is necessary but attention must be paid at all times and
those inflicted cannot be starved or else they will eat their foot.
What fears doctors, healthcare professionals, researchers and
husbands the most is that this man, Mr. Butler, is proving to be more
than just a piece of man meat. He is actually a nice guy. "Gerry?!
Oohmygod, Gerry is just the greatest!" exclaimed one fan, Jules
Stoyalinokovichowski* (*name has been changed). "He is so funny and
nice and charming..." she raved, with a glint of lovestruck madness
in her eye before screaming, "I WANT THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT!!!!" and
collapsing. (Note: she has since partially recovered, thanks to some
German chocolate cake and Abba.) To another fan, Tamara
Bobbilonpolis*, Gerry is just completely "rad" and to Maha Dahaha, he
has a "porno mouth." (We know having a "porno mouth" isn't a
character trait but we, at WebQuackMD, agree that he does. Big time.)
OCGD is only going to get worse, experts fear. Dr. Michael Crawford,
153, who seems particularly concerned and upset about this ordeal,
tells us in falsetto that the general release of "The Phantom of the
Opera" isn't for a few more weeks and he is very worried that his
life's work, asserting that Phantom Fans suffered from MCPSS (Michael
Crawford Post-Opera Squeal and Stress), will prove wrong and thus,
discredit him forever. While investigating Butler, his unofficial
fansite "GeraldBoutler.net" says "Phantom" will be followed by the
wide release of "Dear Frankie" and then "Beowulf," as the hotter-than-
Aragorn hero of English prose. Doctors are anxiously seeking answers.
Husbands/significant others/men in general are wondering how the will
ever meet a woman's standard again. Is this the end of the human
race...unless Butler is cloned? God save us all.

Отрывок:
Q: Tell me Andrew Lloyd Webber's house is a mess...
Gerry: It's disgusting, he lives in a hovel, it's only five feet by five feet, essentially a dustbin and a piano, with space for two people... No, he lives in the most unbelievable place, like a palace hidden away in Belgravia. He has a glass roof that opens up on the press of a button. I was sitting, waiting for him to arrive, and I realised that his roof opened up, so I thought: 'Oh good, now I can have a cigarette.' So I opened his roof and lit up, just as he walked up the stairs. I thought: 'Oh f**k, I've lost the job already.' :D

Спасибо, ушла читать.

Кстати, о футболистах: ой, сколько на всяких ток-шоу (если пригласят) будет ужасных рассказов о разбитых коленках. :-))) Или настоящие мужчины в таком не признаются?

Another Interview
 

Интервью Джерри для gb.net
An Interview with Gerard Butler - Part One
It's early in the morning, the phone rings and Gerard Butler is on the line. He is apologizing profusely for having not called sooner. I have been less then enamoured with him for months now after he agreed to do this interview and then didn't get around to actually doing it. But as he rambles on about how much he likes the site and says how flattered he is with the work that has gone into it, my frustration melts away. This boy can pour on the charm. As we talk a bit about where I live and I explain to him it isn't up near Alaska somewhere, I grimace and cannot believe the words that are about to come out of my mouth. I ask him if we could do the interview another day. He readily agrees and we make arrangements for him to call back in a couple of days.
I hang up the phone feeling like the boy I've liked all year long has finally asked me to dance at the last dance of the junior high school year and I've said no because I don't like the song that is playing. I beat myself up for the next two days wondering if he will in fact call back.
He does.
Gerard is in a great mood. I ask him how he is and he goes on for a few minutes explaining how he was being fitted for costumes for his next movie Timeline that afternoon, how he trained at the gym, and how he is attending, on average, one and a half plays a day while in London. Earlier that week, he says he was in northern England with the man who's making all the longbows for Timeline and was shown how to work one.
I figure this is going to be an easy interview but before I can even ask my first, carefully planned question, Gerard has already steered me off course. I now realize this isn't going to go my way at all.
"In the new year of 2001, I went into a bit of a depression. It was almost a bit anti-climatic after Dracula (2000) and Attila," he reflects.
"And suddenly I signed onto this amazing agency (CAA) and my first two auditions were just awful, dreadful. Then I went in and read for Michael Apted (director of Enigma and The World is Not Enough) for Enough (a Jennifer Lopez vehicle) and I had two fantastic auditions," Gerard's voice rises in excitement. "I thought 'All right, this is the one. This is all mine.' And basically, my agent said 'Alright we'll get the offer' and it never fucking happened," he pauses and then adds, sounding a little starstruck "I was almost playing opposite Jennifer Lopez." (Do you think Lopez was probably thinking, 'I was almost playing opposite Gerard Butler'? Okay well maybe she wasn't but that is her loss.)
He was out in Dublin shooting Reign of Fire, sitting around telling Matthew McConaughey, who plays the leader of the American dragon-fighting team, about the role when a letter from Apted arrives on set for him. It contained some nice things about Gerard. "So often you don't get a part and that's that. That's all you hear about it. (Apted) really went out of his way. It was a crackin' letter. So," he drawls "I've had it blown up 25 times and now it's stuck to my ceiling," he chuckles at his own joke.
Audiences are currently eating up fantasy films like Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, which Gerard loved, and Harry Potter, which he "hated with a vengeance". So when Reign of Fire is released this summer it should only whet the appetites of those waiting for the next installments of Rings and Potter.
"I always worry when I try to describe (Reign of Fire) because essentially it deals with dragons. When you hear dragons, people go 'yeah right it sounds great,' you know."
Having said that, he is enthusiastic about the film. "Rob Bowman's (the director) idea was to take a situation, which to us as human beings, is just far-fetched. But if you can make that believable and draw the audience in then that is the main purpose of doing that kind of movie. If you can take something that is so out there and insane, if you can bring it right into somebody's, you know, vision, and make them really believe they are living in this environment, this world, so then they are scared shitless rather than people just going along to see some fancy effects. In a movie with this big of budget you know you're going to see some amazing stuff. (The budget for this film was $80M, at last report) But it's got to be more than that you know, and I think that's what we were trying to do in this really."
He describes it as cross between Alien and Mad Max where the Earth has been destroyed by pre-historic lizards that only come around about every 10 million years. (Don't hold him to that figure though).
"They feed off of, well, basically everything. They burn the grass, they burn the trees, they burn all the vegetation, they burn buildings and they burn people. But eventually they multiple so rapidly and they burn so much that they starve themselves out again, and disappear again for a long period. And we are unfortunate enough to live in a time when they've come back," he adds giggling "or fortunate enough or otherwise there would have been no movie."
Gerard plays Creedy who he describes as a street-wise entrepreneur who, if he were living in 2002, would be running a gang of small-time crooks. He insists that Creedy is a good guy who always tries to make things work with everybody.
"Christian Bale (American Psycho) and I, we're like best mates. We're the ones who come up with this plan that we all should end up in this castle and that the most important thing we have to do is we have to discipline ourselves in every way and make rules that nobody can break because this is the only way we're all going to get through this."
Creedy, he explains, brings the film back down to earth. Creedy questions what is going on.
"That's me in this movie, y'know? Somebody to say 'Can you believe this is happening?' and somebody who's willing to laugh at the situation. I would hope that I bring some humor into the movie."
Although Reign of Fire doesn't sound like it lends itself to a lot of humorous moments, Gerard does look for roles that do. That's not to say he wants to be the next Jim Carrey.
"I love nutty roles; those roles that you can climb into and give a lot of color too. It might be some off-beat wacky, low-budget script, and I might just say 'oh my god, I have to do this."
Ariel Vromen's short film Jewel of the Sahara comes to mind, in which he plays an British Army captain that gets kicked to death while screwing a camel.

"I haven't really chosen my roles on the money available. I've done movies that for what to me is a lot of money. And I've done movies for nothing because I like them and because I wanted to work."
In preparing to play his characters, Gerard says he tends to draw from his own experiences.
His latest project "The Jury", is a mini-series which is currently airing in the U.K. on Sundays, and has him playing Johnnie Donne, a recovering alcoholic. Without the formal training of drama school Gerard relies on himself to get into character.
"I spent so much time just in my own head. Just kind of memories, just kind of going into myself and I became so worked up and stressed out. But it worked perfectly for the part. When I finished I thought that to me was very much the right approach."
Gerard is a person who takes things to the extreme.
"I'm a clean person for three days and then I'm a slob for the next four. I'm like that in everything. I'm completely one and then I'm completely the other you know? My flat right now is really not bad. I spent a lot of time today throwing out shit and folding this and folding that and putting this away. But there are days when I walk in ...it's like everything. I'm either dieting or I'm eating like a pig. I'm either working out or I wouldn't want to see the gym for a million years. I'm smoking 50 cigarettes a day, or I've stopped. Currently, I've stopped. I've stopped on Monday, yet again," he says like he just can't believe it. "Or I'm being Mr. Tidy and I'm making sure every jacket is hung up and everything is put away and then as soon as one thing goes on the floor, that's the precedent and everything else just lies on top of it for the next few days until I get really upset."
The extreme behavior helped him prepare for the role of Johnnie. "A lot of my research just goes in my head," he begins slowly, then as he continues on the words fly out of his mouth, "walking about, constantly thinking what about this, what about that, what would he wear, what would he do, how would he be, what would he like. And you start to build a character that way."
The extremes Gerard goes to and the wild times in his life help him to find something in his characters that he can relate too.
"I have lived a varied life and I feel that when I do something I can draw on past experiences. I've come to really cherish that; cherish every color that I have instead of fight against it. Any success that I have had is because of me, Gerry Butler, who has loved right up to this day, every good and bad thing he's ever done. And that's what informs me as an actor."
He seems so sure of his abilities but those moments of surety always seem to be backed up by humbleness.
"If I look at what landed me Attila, what landed me Dracula, I went in with something, in my view, that could have easily been deemed as a pile of shit. But it turned out to be exactly what they were looking for. And therefore through my six years I've learned to trust my own instinct much more. But it's constantly changing and evolving which makes me always excited and always nervous as well. Every time I get a job I think 'what the hell am I going to do about this one', ya know? And every time I notice I have different ways (to develop the character) depending on the job."
But enough about character research. He finds it boring to talk about that. He says he doesn't want to "wank on" about it anymore because he'll sound boring. Uh-huh. Yeah, if you say so. So let's wank on about why the majority of his characters seem to die.
"I die some pretty gruesome deaths. I was poisoned (Attila) and burned alive (Dracula 2000). I was shot in Shooters; I was shot in Please! Oh my god, I was shot in Fast Food as well."
The amount of characters he has portrayed that have died seem to hit him. Let's recap the movies in which he dies: Attila, Dracula (2000), Shooters, Fast Food, Tale of The Mummy, Tomorrow Never Dies, Please!, Jewel of the Sahara. Any others? Not so far.
His character Gus in 'Lucy Sullivan Gets Married" should have been shot.
"Lucy Sullivan, I can't even remember what happened to me in that. I probably just ran away with the money. That was a very fun character but a very dreadful show," he says, thinking back to the show.
"It is just such a shame when they take a script that is so colorful and clear and at the end of the day turn it into something very, very dull. I don't like it but I've only ever seen one episode of it and I couldn't watch anymore."
And once again Gerard has unwittingly changed the subject.
"I actually enjoyed playing that character. You know it's funny. I think a lot of people joked about the fact that, and some people weren't joking, when they said 'you know the only thing is Gerry, you really weren't acting when you were playing Gus.' I don't think they were really talking about his ability to break into houses and cover it up. It was more his very kind of," he searches for the right word. Charm, I suggest? "Charm," he takes up the word "and wit," he adds. "And at the end of the day his roguish qualities."
The Merriam Webster Dictionary describes a rogue as a scoundrel or mischievous person. Self-professed rogue Gerard laughs while admitting, "I'm a bit of a bad boy. But not the type of bad boy that you would want to protect your wallet from...I like to have fun and I am a bit of a rogue."
Although rumors of his behavior abound on the Internet between strangers and the women who claim to have crossed paths with this man, he declines to give specific examples of his roguish behavior. Those Internet rumors are not lost on him.
"I've had people I know tell me about things that have been said that are complete bullshit," he says sounding amused and a bit perplexed by it all. He rattles off a handful of rumors, including what seem to be the favorite ones out there: his love child in Toronto and his engagement. He denies both.
Gerard is lost when it comes to a computer, even though he owns a G4 PowerBook. He admits, in that roguish way of his "I don't know how to work a fucking computer...and I don't know how to get onto the bloody Internet with it. And I've never properly managed to get into my e-mail. It's all hopeless to me."

So how does he even know about www.gerardbutler.net? Friends, family, managers, and agents show him the site.
"I'm chucked with the web site I think you guys are doing a great job. I try not to get too involved with it but it doesn't mean I don't kind of think 'damn' whenever I get on there and look at it. I'm constantly amazed by the kind of job you guys are doing. So I'm very, very happy."
What? You didn't think we would ask what he thought about the site? After all, without Gerry we wouldn't be here now would we? But what about the way we run the site, I push, are you happy with that?
"I fully appreciate that you guys are looking after my best interests. I've never really doubted that you know."
But enough about GB.Net.
What does Gerard love about acting? He never knows what's going to happen from week to week. He gives a for instance.
"I was supposed to be in Mindhunters playing an FBI agent. It was the male lead with Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, and LL Cool J," he effortlessly rattles off the other actors confirmed for the Renny Harlin film.
"One day you're going along doing your thing and the next your whole life has changed because it does when you land a role. Suddenly you're living that character, you're thinking that character. You're imagining the place you're going to be filming. You're giving the director ideas. Then just as soon as that happened on the 27th of December, my manager called me and said 'It's all off, it's not happening. Miramax has pushed the movie and now it runs into Timeline' And all my stuff was sitting in Amsterdam. All my clothes were in Amsterdam waiting for me to arrive to start the movie," he laughs, then sighs. "It's a crazy business."
It sure is when Hollywood puts their trust in a very inexperienced ex-party animal Scotsman, his words.
"I think now that I'm now starting to grow into success or the feeling of success which really came out of luck," he sentences remain fragmented.
"Things were really going along nicely (in London) and I literally stepped off the plane to LA and I was offered a pilot. I was told to consider a holding for a major studio and I was offered Attila. And this all happened in the space of two and a half weeks. There was a part of me thinking 'well this is where I belong.' It was all happening, and there was a part of me thinking 'oh god it's all going to stop tomorrow.'"
What has helped him to stay grounded and land the roles he wants is to treat acting like a job and not a dream or fantasy.
"I didn't find I got on as quickly in my career as when I cut all the bullshit and said alright I want to do this because I'm good enough and it takes away a lot of the kind of flighty, fanciful, more fun and dreamy elements of being an actor. But at the same time you get the opportunity to play those parts you know?" I briefly wonder why when he constantly says 'you know' it doesn't sound as annoying when my best friend says it.
"I said I want Attila, I got it. I said I want Dracula, I got it. I said I want Reign of Fire. And I certainly wasn't used to having that kind of ratio. It started the ball rolling. Cause once you've done Dracula and Attila then people start to know who you are and then suddenly, without you having to say to people 'Hey I'm really good and I'm in this. People are actually saying that about you."
Once again Gerard reflects on the nature of acting. "It's a funny old business."
Enjoying his success but still enjoying his relative anonymity he takes pleasure in mundane daily tasks. "You know, I fuuuucking loooove this shiiit," he sounds excited to be folding his socks.
"In some ways my life has changed. Suddenly you have fantastic agents, you have a publicist, and you have a manager. You have people inviting you to premieres and you're invited to parties. And that's all good and fun but at the end of the day pretty much all my friends have been my friends for a long time. I still walk about my flat and go 'shit, when am I going to tidy this place up, and when am I going to do that photo album and when am I going to fix that washing machine.'"
He's explaining how he has had the same maid for three years, that comes in once a week, to clean his North London flat. "I love her to death," he professes, "but I can't bring himself to ask her to do something specific besides generally cleaning up."
The constant ringing of a cell phone in the background interrupts us. I ask him if he needs to get it and he politely excuses himself.
Once again Gerard is apologizing profusely to me and says he really needs to go. A friend is waiting for him to go to dinner. Before I can get my 'thank you for taking time out to talk' he is asking if he can call back tomorrow. Surprised, I reply yes. He takes down my number, yet again. As we say our good-byes I feel this is the last time I'll hear from him.
I'm wrong.

Если я таки переборю свою патологическую застенчивость, то с удовольствием переведу и сброшу сюда. Но только после вторника:)

А трейлер таки не качается. Видимо, и правда удалили:mad: В связи с этим хочется спросить: может быть, у кого-нибудь есть возможность выложить его куда-нибудь на общедоступный мэйл? Ну чтоб неуспевшие особо не расстраивались?;)

Я думаю, если Джерри будет о чём рассказать, можно не сомневаться, что он это сделает, ведь рассказывал же он о съёмках "Лары", как трудно ему давался этот трюк со съезжанием вниз головой по верёвке и как он старался not to vomit :D
Приятного чтения!

Привет всем!
TinySparrow , ты помнится спрашивала откуда рисунки...
Они с Батлеровского сайта, из раздела фанского творчества.

Vita, Нора


девчонки, да что вы в самом деле?
во-первых, "тут" судят не "так строго" *улыбка* (мне не очень нравяться эти разноцветные мордашки, поэтому свои эмоции буду "прописывать" ок?...)
во-вторых, кто знает язык на "5 с +", тот сам прочитает, а вот те кто....ну, в общем, понятно..., так вот, ТЕ - на какие-то "мелкие неграмотности" даже внимания не обратят!
в-третьих, зато сколько благодарных эмоций вы вызовете (по себе знаю) *весело подмигивая Вите*

А я вот и не читала. Что он говорил?

Это называется подстрекательство:D Ооох, плакал мой зачёт понедельничный, прямо сейчас переводить кинусь:D

Эх, девочки... Не смейтесь. Сегодня, пребывая в здравом уме и твердой памяти, я купила DVD с "Ларой Крофт-2". Долго ходила кругами, но все же любопытство посмотреть на Батлера в роли "великолепного подонка" (так, кажется, его охарактеризовала Нора?) пересилило. :D Да... Фильм - тупейший. Особенно впечатлили два момента: тюрьма в Казахстане с русскими надписями на стенах и прыжок с небоскреба, когда Лара и Терри парили аки Дедал с Икаром. :D Само собой, играть Батлеру почти не приходилось. Актерские изыски явно не для этой картины. Но бегать, стрелять, падать, драться и соблазнять у него получалось, как и демонстрировать красивое накачанное тело. Но... Хм? Не знаю почему, но Терри получился слишком добродушным для злодея. Вот хоть убейте, глазищи выдают натуру тонкую и ранимую :) И внешне он там уж очень на Незнакомца смахивает (когда Батлер не пытается делать тупое лицо). Ларку все из переделок вытаскивал, ручку ей перебинтовывал, а она, чучело такое, взяла и стрельнула в бывшего любовника. :( Даже не попыталась предварительно перевоспитать. :D В общем, странное впечатление оставил фильм (пришлось "лечиться" Призраком). Поменьше бы подобных "плевков в вечность" было в фильмографии актера. Теперь надо ждать "Бернса". После "ПО" и "Дорогого Фрэнки" можно ждать новых открытий. Тем более такой благодатный и благодарный материал. :)

Нора - вот интервью, из которого я процитировала.
A Conversation with Gerard Butler
July 22, 2003 - It's a Sunday morning in New York, and actor Gerard Butler has finally caught up on his sleep. For him, the prior 48 hours were hectic. Friday, in St. Louis, he worked a 15-hour day shooting the soccer flick The Game of Their Lives, and thereafter hopped a plane, which sat on the runway for an hour before the passengers were asked to move to another plane. He arrived in New York at 2:00 AM, Saturday morning. Seven hours later he was at a private screening of Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life with his manager and two friends, it was the first time he'd seen the film. "I loved it! I thought it was great!" says Butler. But that presentation didn't have the extra jazz he's looking for: audience reaction.
"I had heard the night before that there had been a great reaction both with the press mixed with the crowd," says Butler. So, later that night, he secretly showed up for a preview screening at the Lowes Theater on 34th Street. "I was late, so I had to find a seat at the side, couldn't see." But he got the reactions, even from the people on either side of him who didn't know he was starring in the film. "I really enjoyed it!" says Butler, who was tempted to look up and around. "Everybody was behind me and I didn't want to spend the whole movie looking back."
This Friday, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life opens, and audiences nationwide will get their first real look at the man who will be The Phantom of the Opera. And it just may be that with his current slate of films (Tomb Raider, Timeline and The Phantom of the Opera), this time next year Butler may not be able to be so discrete about attending a movie.
Today, we talk with the star about making the second film in the Tomb Raider franchise, playing Lara's main squeeze, and landing the lead role in The Phantom of the Opera.
Q: Lara does get hers in this film: Terry Sheridan... You, to be exact. And ironically, in the make-out scene with you and Angelina Jolie, the camera keys on you, did you notice that?
GERARD BUTLER: Actually, no. But now that you mention it. Um, maybe, yeah.
Q: The tables are kind of turned here, like you're the sex object.
BUTLER: Well, I was only there just to be a sex toy, obviously (he jokes, laughing).
Q: Did you know going in that this was going to be a little different emphasis, Lara's vulnerability. A change in tone.
BUTLER: Yeah, I was aware of the whole thing. It was bought forward from the first one. This was brought forward in terms of character a little more. Her character is real and valuable.
I also knew that in terms of the story, it was a story that you could definitely follow easier than the first one. I knew that Jan [de Bont] was doing it. And one thing when you watch Jan's movies is that he can make some movies about some pretty crazy topics, but they still have an incredible reality to them. And he brings that out in his actors as well. He brings a freshness and a truth, and I think you see more of that.
Angelina had wanted a stronger male character to play opposite her, and I think one of the other advantages in that was a sense of competition. And also that that, especially with Terry Sheridan, would bring a vulnerability and perhaps a weakness in [Lara] Croft, if there was ever to be one discovered. And that... that's going to make here more human, more real.
Q: Was there a competitiveness on the set, seeing as how, you know, Angelina does a lot of her own stunt-work? Like, you can do that stunt, too. Or, if he's going to hang upside-down, well so is she?
BUTLER: Only in a fun way. It's not something I would ever do. I'm not a macho guy.
I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that. I also loved watching her doing her stunts, and I loved watching her train. She trained really hard. And it was nothing but an inspiration to me. In that one scene where we were [upside-down] coming down the wire... it was killin' me. I've never felt my weight so much in my life. I was trying to pull my body back and pull my arm up because it was stuck in a harness, and trying to stop myself from spinning. And trying not to vomit (he laughs).
I'm doing this, and I'm trying to tuck both my knees in. And I'm like, "Fine!" (he says as if in pain). And doing this for two days, over forty times, it was a killer. I would then be looking to Angelina and thinking, "How's she lookin'? How's she gettin' along?" It was a tough stunt for both of us.
We were only there to encourage each other, and that kind of stuff.
Q: Can you really do those upside-down sit-ups, you know, like you're doing in the scene where Lara meets you?
BUTLER: Actually, the whole set was inverted, and then they had Angelina walk in upside-down (he jokes, laughing).
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that [jail] set was already built.
Q: So you went over to Pinewood Studios for the audition.
BUTLER: And I was in costume, and you know, [Angelina] came up and she met with me. And I had wanted to pump up before I went in. I knew I was going to be wearing a vest, so I had my trainer come in in the morning. I'd just arrived in London and the gym was closed. So I spent an hour doing every type of press up imaginable. (He demonstrates, moving his arms over his head.) Press ups like this, press ups like this... Until... my arms... were gone.
I arrive for the screen test (he laughs) and [Jan de Bont] walks onto the set (he points to an imaginary overhead bar) and says, "Why don't you jump up there and start pullin' yourself up."
I had no energy left in my arms! I said, "I can barely move. I can't even put my hands up." (He laughs.) So, it was an unfortunate kind of coincidence.
Q: But, obviously the test went darn well. You must have impressed someone.

BUTLER: The screen test was great. I mean, I felt that [Angelina and I] had a great chemistry together. We got on great and it was very easy between us. It all worked well.
I mean, when I turned up and Jan said, "I want you to do this, this and this." I thought, "He's already made it so much easier for me." And then Angelina came up and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.
Q: How soon after doing the screen test did you find out that you got the part?
BUTLER: They said after a couple days, "You're the guy." But there was a whole bunch of other things to be discussed at that point. And you've just got to be patient with these things, you know. It can take a lot of time.
Q: Which sort of was the case with The Phantom of the Opera.
BUTLER: It's the same with The Phantom [of the Opera]. Joel [Schumacher] said to me straightaway, "You're my guy. I want you to be my phantom." But it still didn't happen for quite a long while because there was still budgetary issues, casting issues for other parts. So, it's not an easy time in you're life when it's a part you really want to do, literally, every time.
Q: For Tomb Raider you were pretty persistent about it.
BUTLER: I'll tell you, it was very funny actually, I remember my manager calling me. Literally, the conversations were, I would call him or he would call me, and I would say, "Have you heard anything about Tomb Raider" – because there would always be gossip, you know. I'd been asking this so much, and there was one day he said, "Yeah, I heard this..." And about two minutes later he said, "I've got to take this call." So he hung up on me and called me back twenty seconds later. And I said, "Have you heard anything about Tomb Raider?" (he laughs). It was a joke.
Q: Concerning The Phantom, and no doubt this is a question they asked you: have you done musical work before?
BUTLER: Yeah, (he laughs) when I was twelve I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow. Actually, I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. But... never have I sang anything like this.
Q: Being an attorney, does that make seeing or negotiating your contracts any easier?
BUTLER: I don't even read them. Or not really like that, but I barely look at them. My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. They'll have them all marked, and they'll say, "Sign here, here and here" And I say, "Yup, yup and yup." So... I don't understand why he's getting a seventy-five percent commission (he laughs).
Q: How did you get the role in The Phantom of the Opera? I mean that's a seriously high-profile deal.
BUTLER: It was a strange experience for me because for Tomb Raider and for Timeline – the Dick Donner movie that I just did – I really came in from the outside. I was always the last guy to be screen tested, you know. And I felt like the underdog. And I function very well when I'm the underdog. Whereas with The Phantom, I had an initial meeting with Joel where he said, "I just hope you can sing. I'd love you to be the phantom. I think you're perfect for this." And he says, "Now Gerry, I'm not even looking at anybody else."
Q: And he's seen your work.
BUTLER: Joel had seen all my work. Joel sees everything. He'd seen me in Attila, he'd seen me inDracula, he'd seen me in The Jury. He's great like that.
I feel really excited about this because Joel has put a lot of trust in me and really believes in me. He'd had his eye on me for a long time for the part, and he's probably the most renowned director for spotting talent with what he's done in his career.
Q: So what was this meeting like – the one where you didn't really know that you were being considered for The Phantom?
BUTLER: Well, we had had a meeting – we had a lunch together about eight months before – but this was a general meeting. He just said, "I want to meet again." So we had a lunch. It was a bunch of his people, and we had a great laugh. And I guess, now that I think about it, maybe he had the Phantom in mind. We'd barely talked about it. We talked about everything but The Phantom.
Q: So he called you back.
BUTLER: The one thing he had mentioned was that he'd seen all my stuff and he really loved my work – it never ceases to amaze me when somebody says that.
Then he called my agent.
Q: Was your agent even aware that you were being considered for The Phantom?
BUTLER: Being the wonderful believer that [my agent] is – when Joel said "Can Gerry sign?" my agent said, "Send it over and we'll sign the stuff." (He laughs.)
So I had this great meeting with Joel in London, by which point I'd read his adaptation of the script. And I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really... (he shakes his head) I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.
Q: It must be asked: How's the singing going for you?
BUTLER: Well I, by that point, had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter (he laughs). But the coach said, "Man, you can do this." And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
Then I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on.
And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Q: I was going to ask about that. Seriously... Got your nerves on straight, then?

BUTLER: I had to prove myself to a lot of different people, but actually, that was my choice.
They'd said, "At this point, you don't even have to go and sing for him." Because the authority on that was Simon Lee. Simon had given the go-ahead for me anyway.
I think at some point Andrew would wanted to have seen me anyway. Simon had basically said, "If you want it. You're good enough to go in and sing for him and I think you should do that. You don't have to, but it would help."
So I said, "OK. Let's go in." And suddenly it's a trip: there's Joel Schumacher, the producer, Simon Lee came with me to play the piano.
Q: No pressure...
BUTLER: (He laughs.) I have to tell you, you just said the funniest thing. When I had the part, and even when I had the part I kept training and singing with Simon, we're walking down the stairs one day after a session, and he said, "Do you know that the Phantom has done six billion dollars of business around the world?" I was in front of him, and I think he could tell. Maybe he saw my shoulders slump. And he just said, "No pressure."
Q: What song did you audition with for Andrew Lloyd Weber?
BUTLER: It was "Music of the Night."
Q: Have you seen some of the production design? Anything for this new look? The new design for the Phantom himself?
BUTLER: I haven't seen any, but I hear they're incredible. I hear they're amazing.
Q: What kind of an accent will you have to use in the film?
BUTLER: Kind of a soft English accent. Not really posh.
Q: Ciar?n Hinds, he's in the Phantom and Tomb Raider with you.
BUTLER: (He laughs.) He's used to listening to me walking about during Tomb Raider singing The Phantom (he laughs). Now that he's doing the movie with me, I find that very funny because I didn't have the part then. This is when I was training for it. Strange, strange world.
Q: You start filming this fall?
BUTLER: Yes. I'm doing a movie right now in St. Louis with David Anspaugh, a soccer film where I'm working with Wes Bentley – The Game of Their Lives.
Q: Oh, that's the one with the guy from Bush, Gavin Rossdale.
BUTLER: Yeah! Gavin Rossdale's in it. And Louis Mandylor from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Q: What's it's like being from Glasgow and doing a film about an American football team?
BUTLER: Well, at the end of the day it's about beating England (he laughs).
Vita - успехов! :)

Как иной раз забавно бывает смотреть фотографии, сделанные непрофессионалами. :)
Ну до чего же милый снимок.
Джерард и девочка. :D

Что-то я слишком большое интервью запостила :)
Такая милая фотография! Девочка очень похожа на мою племянницу, только моя старше и худее :)

Да ладно тебе :-))). Просто ты ждала, видимо, чего-то ... хорошего, а кино это - прямо-таки классика жанра БСК. Снято оно в подражание сюжетным перипетиям компьютерной игрушки про Лару Крофт (в просторечии между геймерами Ларка) и в этом состоит его "фишка".
Сюжет меня там не раздражал нисколько - я чего-то в этом духе и ждала. Раздражало меня обращение к Джоли "леди". Поскольку леди - это леди, а Джоли - это в моем восприятии типичная американская мисс, которая сама себя сделала. Ничего плохого не хочу сказать. Но когда к ней обращаются "леди" - это явный мискастинг имхо. :-)))


/мечтательно/ а какая тюрьма в Казахстане была в "Секретных материалах"! Ах!


Это приблизительно как в бондиане: сделать такое невозможно физически, но наш герой все равно делает. Закон жанра. :-))) Красиво ведь. :-)))
Зато какие мотогонки!!! Вот они мне правда нравятся - хороший такой драйв в этом эпизоде. :-)))))


Вот не поверишь, но я Батлера в Ларке вопринимаю как хамоватого такого Самца. И с моей точки зрения он вполне себе неплохо сыграл этого несчастного Терри. По крайней мере у меня, уж на что я Джоли не люблю, и то к Ларке возникло горячее сочувствие: ну надо же, какой подонок ей достался. :-))) Так что все было в тему.
Но правда когда его стрельнула, мне тоже жалко стало. Вот весь фильм с нетерпением ждала, когда его прибьют, наконец, а в конце жалко было. :-)))


А биография-то у Бернса прямо-таки устрашающая. ;-)))

Это модно что ли - если тюрьма, то обязательно в Казахстане? :) Я в своё время очень любила смотреть "Секретные материалы"... *возводит глаза куда-то к потолку и мечтательно вздыхает*
И я тоже влезу в обсуждение, можно? :) Я, кажется, уже об этом говорила сразу после просмотра - я Джоли не люблю, и здесь сочувствие у меня вызывала не она, а Терри-Джерри: уж на что он МУЖИК, а она ещё круче, никак ему её не переплюнуть. Непонятно, зачем вообще она его с собой взяла, для развлечения что ли, если всё равно мегаЛара всех одной левой сделает. (а Вы, Нора, кажется, мне на это ответили, что так и было задумано, п.ч. сделано это по игре).
Оффтоп - сразу прошу извинить. Вчера мы с подругой посмотрели концерт-мюзикл Hey Mr.Producer (прикупили на Горбушке на 2-х видеокассетах), а так как мы в мюзиклах пока ещё полные незнайки, то помогите нам ПОЖАЛУЙСТА добрые люди, вы ведь наверняка это видели. Там был такой мужчина среднего возраста, с кудрявыми волосами, полноватый, он изображал (петь практически не пришлось) Рауля в П.О., ещё был замечен в "Отверженных" и ещё он в одиночку пел задушевную песню про то, как целыми днями думает о Ней. Извините, что коряво выражаюсь *смущённо*. Вы не могли бы подсказать, как зовут этого певца? Уж больно нам его голос понравился.
Кстати, Призрак там - я чуть под стол не упала. Если "не бывает Дон Жуанов с животом", то и Призрак пенсионного возраста с бородой - это по-моему странно. :)

Не этот ли?:)))
http://www.musicals.ru/pers/ball.php

charisma - большое, БОЛЬШОЕ спасибо! Вы его сразу признали :-))) У него, оказывается, столько работ, что можно потратить кучу времени, разыскивая их ;-)) Aspects of love мы уже нашли (кажется...), а есть ли возможность где-нибудь скачать Miserables? (или об этом нельзя вот так в открытую говорить? 8-/)

Да вроде концертник Мизераблей на видео на Горбушке купить - вообще не проблема:)))))

У меня, у меня есть Мизерабли! Английские в 2-х вариантах и французские. Ты вроде в Москве, давай в приват, договоримся встретиться.