Ура-ура!
 

*TinySparrow пытается изобразить танец Джерри на шоу Крейга Фергюсона* Поздравляю! Получили официальное благословение от *почтительно* Тамары! Замечательно!
Proza!!! Я облилась слезами, читая твой перевод песни! Браво! :ale:
Alise, хехе! :D
Journalist, забавное интервью! Скромен наш Джерри... ;) :D :love

Proza , присоединяюсь, великолепно:ale: :ale: :ale:
Поздравляю всех вас, девушки, с письмом, которое так ждали!
TinySparrow Скромнее некуда;)
Journalist А этот диагноз еще в медицинские справочники не занесли???;)

Воробышек, будешь пополнять сайт новостями, не забудь сказать и про письмо Тамары. :)

Эх, девчата, как же это здорово! Нам дают полный карт-бланш! Настроение - отменное!

ЛаЛуна, от лица всех нас вырази Тамаре самую горячую признательность! Она - молодец! Я думаю, ей все-таки было приятно, что к ней отнеслись с таким пиететом. :)

Ну что? Как только ЛаЛуна восстановит сайт после варварской выходки "народа.ру", так надо иностранной админше отправить приглашение. Пусть посмотрит на то, как в России любят гражданина Батлера. :) ;)

А я вашу дружную компанию с завтрашнего дня покину. Уезжаю из города. Но загружу вас работой по самое не хочу... :D ;)

Article Date: December 10, 2000 | Publication: Scotland on Sunday | Author: John Millar

WE HADN'T met before but, even in the crowded lounge of London's Charlotte Street Hotel there was no mistaking Gerard Butler. And not just because I recognised him from the big screen. Sure, the slim, dark-haired Scot was the only movie star in the room. But while some stars seem almost anonymous when you meet them face to face, blending unobtrusively into the crowd, Butler actually looks just like a movie star is supposed to. He was fashionably casual, in black V-neck sweater and denims, and has the sort of brooding good looks the camera falls for every time. His face was also lit up by a smile that said that life was good.

And with good reason. Things could scarcely be better for the Glasgow-born actor who with his latest title roles in Dracula 2000 and Attila the Hun, is set to take his place alongside the new breed of big screen Scots like Ewan McGregor, Peter Mullan, Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Alan Cumming, Ewen Bremner and Craig Ferguson.

Tea and designer bottled water ordered (he does not touch alcohol) Butler settles back, reflecting on how, seemingly from nowhere, he has become one of Hollywood's hot new talents. The way he tells it - with a disarming frankness - his life has had enough in it to rouse the interest and imaginations of a team of Hollywood scriptwriters. The product of a broken marriage, he entered showbiz from left field, after his first career choice - as, of all things, a solicitor - did not work out as planned. This was followed by an intense period of soul-searching, mixed with a wilfully self-destructive lifestyle that was a symptom rather than the cause of a deeper melancholy that only acting could ease.

The youngest of three - he has an elder brother and sister - Butler made his first trek across the Atlantic when he was six months old and his father - who owned five betting shops - moved to Canada. "My father was a great entrepreneur but not the best businessman and I think he went bust and we ended up moving to Montreal, where he got a job as an accountant. My mum swears to this day that he was not an accountant but he said he was, something like that. We lived there for two years but I have no recollection of that time.

"The family came back to Scotland when my mum left my dad. He was a bit of a drinker, though he did not have a drink until he was 29. Then he went to the doctor one day with a stomach problem and the doctor said 'have a Guinness' and that was him... gone."

Butler did not see his father again until he was four, and even then it was a fleeting encounter. "I used to question whether I really did see him or if I had dreamed it. Then we lost touch. I didn't know whether he was alive or dead and then he just turned up, out of the blue, when I was 16.

"One night I walked home and my step-father said: 'Keep your jacket on, your dad's here.' Funnily, five weeks before that I had had a dream about my dad. When I stepped into the restaurant of a Glasgow hotel, it was really busy and it was one of the strangest experiences of my life, to be walking through this restaurant looking at all these people, gazing at every man and wondering 'is that my dad?' Then when I reached a table I saw my sister was there so I knew it was him."

It was, as you might expect, an emotional encounter and the memory of it is seared onto Butler's brain. "I did not realise how much I had bottled up. When I sat with my dad, I said: 'Hello, how are you doing?' and then my sister, who had been crying a lot, went up to go to the toilet, and I started to ask him: 'Why didn't you get ina' and I didn't finish the sentence, I didn't say the word 'touch', I just burst out crying. And I cried, hysterically, for the whole evening. I just could not stop, it was very strange."

Looking back, Butler recognises that, as an actor, it is precisely situations like that he can draw upon for emotional inspiration when it comes to capturing the essence of the characters he plays.

"I learned a lot from that because you just don't know what things are affecting you sometimes until they come out," he says. "Maybe it is not the done thing to show your feelings but also some things are so deep. It was all those years of wishing that I had a father and also thinking that I was very comfortable in not having a father and then, in one night that you didn't expect to happen, it all hits homea here is your father and here is his story and what do you feel about it? A whole part of my life that I had thought was gone was suddenly sitting at a table in front of me, sitting at a table and telling me stories."

After this tearful reunion, the teenage Butler visited his father in Toronto. How, I wonder, did his mother - who had taken on the burden of being a single parent and sole provider to three children - react to that decision?

"My mum was worried because I was the baby of the family and couldn't remember the troubles she had had with my dad. She was scared of losing me. She had put all this effort into bringing up three kids on her own and had started a new life. She did a fantastic job of bringing us up then suddenly my dad turns up, after playing no part in our lives. So my mum had her feelings but she was great and said that I had to do what I had to do. So I went to Canada and started hanging out in Toronto and getting to know my dad, who was like a big kid really," says Butler, adding that his father died eight years ago.

Back in Scotland, Butler, unlike so many other actors, was successful at school. He was dux and head boy and then took an honours degree in law at Glasgow University, where he was also president of the university's law society. Though he insists he received that honour for his "social skills", Butler appeared to have impeccable credentials for a successful career in the law. Butler disagrees, however. "I don't think I was heading for great things in the legal field because, although I could pass the examinations, my heart really wasn't in it. I was employed as a trainee solicitor but I wasn't really interested."

So instead of laying the foundations for a prosperous career as a legal eagle, Butler spread his wings and plunged headlong into a life of partying. "Things had spiralled out of control for me, I was just too wild," he admits. "I was going through a crazy time. It was a tough period of my life. I became disillusioned with what I was doing and nothing mattered. I became so unhappy in my career as a trainee solicitor."

This was another defining stage in his life, as Butler decided to pull himself together. The first stage was to end all thoughts of becoming a solicitor, a decision that was accepted with no reluctance by his employers. "It was as much them giving me up as me quitting," he says. "My mum was very, very upset. I was the golden boy. My mum had been so proud, telling everyone that her son was going to be a lawyer. Then her son was not going to be a lawyer and I think she was very embarrassed and hurt."

Butler decided, instead, that he was going to have a stab at becoming an actor. "People say I was very brave making that decision, but it just was not happening in law," he says with a shrug.

So he followed in the time-honoured tradition of Scots on the make, packed his bags and headed south to London in pursuit of, well, fame and fortune. After "blowing" the money he had saved from his time working, Butler found himself taking on a series of "awful jobs" to pay the bills. "I was giving out leaflets for boilers, demonstrating wind-up toys at a toy show and I worked in a couple of restaurants. I wasn't very good at that."

His aim was to put his wild days behind him and settle down. "I knew a casting director, who tried to put me off by telling me that I was crazy. She knew people who were talented and had been to drama school but still had nothing," he recalls. "But for me it was almost because I had lost my vision that I was willing to take risks. After all what was I doing? I had really lost my way."

Later in our conversation, he elaborates upon what he means. Alcohol. "Now I don't drink," he says, simply. "I used to drink a lot, now I don't. It is just a habit. At first I wished I could, but if you can get past a year without drinking you wonder what you were missing." And, you feel, that the knowledge he could give up alcohol has given Butler the self-belief that he can do and achieve anything he sets his mind to.

Every down-at-heel, would-be actor needs their lucky break, however. Butler's came when he was helping out a friend who was working on Steven Berkoff's production of Coriolanus. Butler, essentially, became Berkoff's coffee boy. "He asked if I was an actor and I said I'd like to be and he invited me to read for a part," he says, smiling at the memory. Butler grabbed the opportunity as though it were his last.

"It was a time when I had so much energy. So the audition was like unleashing a wild beara and I got the part. That was the happiest day of my life."

So how does he remember the experience of going out on stage for the first time? "These are standard lines, but the truth is that it was terrifying and exhilarating. I had done some amateur stuff, but for me it was being thrown in at the deep end. All the others were professionals. I was not."

That was the beginning of the new Gerard Butler. He was cast as Renton - the Ewan McGregor role - in a stage version of Trainspotting. "The actor Tam Dean Burn told me they were auditioning for Trainspotting. I had just had some pictures done, so I sent one off with a letter. Then I got a call asking me to audition. I did a couple of little pieces from the book and they offered me the part of Renton there and then. It was incredible. Just a year earlier, when I was still a trainee solicitor, I had been watching Trainspotting at the Edinburgh Festival. My heart had been breaking because I thought that was what I wanted to do and a year later I was."

Next came his most famous role to date, as Billy Connolly's brother in Mrs Brown, which he describes as "a huge deal".

"I had just finished Trainspotting and this was my second film audition and I did not expect to get it. Even when I did land the part, it was not then the big deal that it turned out to be. At first it was a BBC film that would be on television. But knowing that Billy Connolly and Judi Dench were involved was enough. When my agent called to say that I had the part I was watching Billy Connolly in The Big Man on television and I started shouting: 'I'm watching him on TV!'"

His enthusiasm is matched by his determination. For both the forthcoming Dracula 2000 and the Attila TV series, Butler was not initially in the running. The producers were intent on hiring "name" actors for these roles. It was the sheer force of his performance at the audition that won him the role of Attila, but initially, when they were considering who to cast as Dracula, Miramax bosses Bob and Harvey Weinstein would not even look at the Scot's audition video tape. "Then they saw a scene from Attila and they called at 7am the next morning to say I was their man," says Butler, beaming.

"Later, during filming, I had Bob Weinstein sitting with me saying: 'I love what you are doing, I'm going to make you a star.'" Today, although he has a flat in Camden, Butler describes himself as a gypsy. "I just bought my place down here in London last January but I have only spent 11 days there because I have been out in Los Angeles so often. Well, that's where the work is."

Right now, Butler is desperately trying to keep his excitement in check as he waits to discover how his performances in Dracula 2000 and Attila are received by audiences and critics. If Bob Weinstein is correct and Butler is bound for stardom then the actor knows what he would like to draw from that experience. "I want the opportunity to do whatever I want. To tackle roles people think that I can't do. To keep challenging myself. To keep being stimulated."

Dracula 2000 is released next year

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Article Date: June 10, 2001 | Publication: Scotland on Sunday | Author: John Millar

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

He has just been cast in Timeline, a film which ought to go some way towards moving Butler from the fringes of stardom.

The production, a time-shifting drama, certainly has the right pedigree. It's an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Michael Crichton and is to be directed by Richard Lethal Weapon Donner.

The film will certainly raise the profile of the Scot whom the movie rumour factory has suggested might be in the running to be the next James Bond once Pierce Brosnan - who has said he will have one more outing as 007 - hands in his licence to thrill.

Timeline is the continuation of a pell-mell couple of years for the tall (he's 6ft 2in), handsome Glaswegian who only made his film debut four years ago, as Billy Connolly's brother in the award-winning Mrs Brown. He had originally seen his future as a legal eagle and, after taking an honours law degree at Glasgow University, began work as a trainee lawyer. Since choosing the limelight over the law and straightening out his life - he admits to a period of too much partying and drinking and now doesn't touch alcohol - Butler has not been doing so badly. He has starred in the title role of Attila, a TV mini series, which was the second highest rated mini series ever screened in the USA; been out in Eire with Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale in the futuristic fantasy Reign of Fire, in which battles are fought against alien dragons and now he is working on The Jury, a major drama series for ITV.

Meanwhile he has also got his teeth into one of the cinema's greatest legends... Dracula. Butler stars alongside Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell and Christopher Plummer in Dracula 2001, which opens on Friday. It's not a film that is expected to be a hit. In America - where it was released just before Christmas as Dracula 2000 - it came and went without causing much fuss at the box office. On the plus side though, the vampire flick has given Butler the experience of working with a happening film outfit like Miramax - whose productions have ranged from Shakespeare In Love to Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

"It is great to do a movie with the might of Miramax behind it, not a movie where the director says: 'Will you call up all your friends and tell them to come and see it,'" says a grinning Butler when we meet at a London hotel. When he discusses how his career has developed, moving from a blink-and-you'll-miss -it part in Bond romp, Tomorrow Never Dies, and the low budget weepy, One More Kiss, to the current batch of big budget special effect spectaculars, Butler's delight is transparent. "After Mrs Brown I got a few nice little jobs. I was getting more experienced and confident. I was doing better work and playing bigger parts, getting all this experience, and not realising how invaluable that was."

Once his creative juices were pumping, he gambled on heading to Los Angeles and made the breakthrough almost immediately. "It was weird," he says. "Every part I went up for, the feedback was amazing. My agent was saying to treat it with caution. This is LA where they get very excited. But you can't do better than being offered a part. There's a difference between people blowing smoke up your ass and saying we want to give you all this money to play this part!"

One of his still-to-be-seen Hollywood movies is Harrison's Flowers, a drama in which Andie MacDowell plays an American wife who heads into the Yugoslavian conflict after her war photographer husband (David Strathairn) is reported missing.

When I mention that I saw the movie at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Butler stresses that he only has a small role, as a photographer. "But it was great to be involved. We filmed that in Prague and the surrounding countryside. The biggest buzz was a scene where we are running away during a bombing raid. I was heading towards a lorry, which exploded and threw me off my feet."

His determination to make his mark in movies was proved by the manner in which he found himself playing both Attila and Dracula because the schedules of the productions - Dracula 2001, filmed in New Orleans and Toronto, and Attila, a three-and-a-half month shoot in Lithuania - clashed.

"The day before I left for Lithuania and Attila, I auditioned for Dracula. I was told there was no point because they clashed. But I auditioned anyway," Butler recalls. He also remembers that he had gone along armed with fixed ideas of how the old bloodsucker ought to be portrayed.

"I had all these conceptions about the character. I had just had my hair extensions put in and my beard for Attila and I put on a tiny bit of black eye liner. I don't know why I did that, I just had this feeling about Dracula. Then I gave an exceptionally intense performance. When I walked out from the audition, I thought: 'Well they either thought that was the biggest piece of s**t or they really liked it.'"

Obviously, they were impressed. But it still took three months for Miramax - who had initially wanted their Dracula to be played by a better known actor - to offer Butler the part. And after some adjustments in his schedule, he went straight from leading the Hun hordes - which included fellow Scots actor Tommy Flanagan as Attila's brother - to going for the jugular of the inevitable bevy of Dracula babes.

Though he complains about the discomfort of wearing false fangs and red contact lenses - for the traditional look of the Nosferatu - Butler says he enjoyed creating Dracula's screen presence. "I felt powerful and focused," he says. "The power came from the character's stillness. That was something that I learned from playing Attila and used even more as Dracula."

Looking back on what might prove to be a couple of significant career breaks, the actor admits that he made an unlikely Attila. "I am too tall to be Attila. He was a wee guy with a squashed nose," he says, smiling. To get into shape for the role, he trained two hours a day, six days a week, for a month. "I did some serious pumping iron. The routine was so organised it was as though my body was being re-shaped by computer," he says. Once he had muscled-up, there was also the business of the Hun leader being a fantastic horseman, capable of living in the saddle. As he reveals, Butler was far short of the standards demanded by your average Hun warrior.

"The last time I was on horseback I fell over the top of the horse. I was ill for two days, I had a terrible headache and felt really sick. I was drunk at the time."

This drama occurred on a French beach, when Butler was showing off to a French girlfriend. Deciding that he had enough of cantering leisurely he belted off at the gallop.

"I fell off," he says, wincing at the memory. "Then I got back on and started galloping again. I ended up with my arm round the horse's neck and went right over the top and landed on my head. When I knew that they wanted me on a horse for this TV series I had to get over the fear. Now I'm told that you wouldn't know that I was anything but an expert horseman." That's not surprising. You can see that the Scot has the tenacity and drive to succeed. He might have been a late arrival on the film scene, but Gerard Butler is certainly making up for lost time.

Article Date: January 23, 2001 | Publication: Copley News Service | Author: Eirik Knutzen

In the winter of 1999, Glasgow-born Gerard Butler left his home in London to visit New York, spend Christmas in Nashville and celebrate New Year's Eve in Sun Valley, Idaho. His ultimate destination was Los Angeles, where a manager and an agent anxiously awaited his arrival.

The tall, sleek, dark, hairy and intense actor having burned himself up on the ski slopes finally arrived in Hollywood in early February, 2000. By March, the relative unknown (''Trainspotting'' and ''Mrs. Brown'') was cast in the title role of ''Attila,'' a two-part, four-hour miniseries about the life and times of the most famous Hun of them all. After a month of pumping iron and learning to ride a horse, he shipped off to Lithuania for a 65-day shoot.

''I was a little surprised because, on the first audition, one of the producers said, 'We've got Attila walking through the door here,''' says Butler, 31, in his native Scottish burr, thick enough to make Sean Connery sound like a Cockney. ''Not only that, I had to do the whole interview in an American accent. They were looking for a charismatic, powerful, muscular, virile, intelligent and proud man and I kept thinking, 'Oh, my God, I can't do that.'''

A huge spectacle, ''Attila'' chronicles the King of the Huns' supposed exploits from birth (circa 406) somewhere in Central Asia until his death in 453 apparently of a massive stroke on his wedding night. Orphaned as a child, Attila is adopted by his uncle, King Rua (Steven Berkoff), the leader of several Hun tribes content to rape and pillage in neighboring regions. A visionary, he eventually united the barbarian tribes and led the devastating attack on the Roman Empire from 441 to 443. For good measure, he also invaded Gaul and Italy to lay claim to a major portion of the known world.

For a fraction of what it would cost to mount the epic production in the U.S., elaborate sets representing Hun villages, Roman aqueducts, the Imperial Palace and the Appian Way were constructed in Vilnius and the surrounding countryside. Powers Boothe was flown in to portray Attila's mentor and greatest enemy Roman General Flavius Aetis; Simmone Jade McKinnon sheds several layers of clothing as the sexy slave girl N'Kara; Pauline Lynch checks in as the short soothsayer Galen and Tim Curry vamps it up as Emperor Theodosius.

Five hundred Lithuanian extras and an equal number of horses (made to look like a cast of thousands by computer graphic imagery) were rounded up to die over and over again.

''I loved working there I even considered moving to Vilnius at one point,'' says Butler. ''It's a lovely city with a relaxed lifestyle that has several beautiful hotels to match anything in the West. And the people are warm, friendly and full of life. I can't say the same about Bulgaria ...''

Although totally exhausted after two months of fighting Roman legionnaires with short swords and long spears, Butler headed straight from Eastern Europe to Toronto, Canada, in order to shoot his title role in the recently released feature film ''Dracula 2000.''

''It was a lot of fun, with a wild, crazy script and a great cast that includes Christopher Plummer,'' he says. ''Going along at quite a pace, it has a lot of sexiness and darkness as well.''

Born in Scotland along with two older siblings, Butler spent the first 2 1/2 years of his life in Montreal, Canada, where his entrepreneurial father, Edward, sought to establish several businesses. When several business ventures failed, Edward sought his fortune in Toronto while his destitute, but resourceful wife, Margaret, took the children back to Paisley, a community just outside Glasgow.

''I didn't see my father again until he visited us in Scotland 14 years later,'' says Butler, ''but after that I saw him in Toronto several times. He was nuts, very funny and a wonderful man who lost fortunes several times. I lived in his apartment when he went off to Togo in Africa to buy $50,000 worth of gold. But he bought $50,000 worth of copper by mistake, then wound up in a Togo hospital with malaria. My French-Canadian stepmother flew off to rescue him, slipped on an airport ramp, broke her ankle and wound up in the same hospital as my dad.''

A wild child with a penchant for travel himself, Butler drove his mother and ''various bankers'' crazy by taking off to visit friends and relatives in North America on several occasions. In 1987, he visited aunts in Alaska and San Diego, where he did clean-up jobs at Sea World for a summer. In 1991, he took a year off from law school to work in a traveling carnival at California county fairs making a ''small fortune'' bilking small kids out of money with the Whacky Wire concession.

But Butler had his heart set on becoming an actor at the age of 12 after taking part in a school play. Seeing the mediocre action-fantasy film ''Krull'' (1983) made up his mind. Then he entered Glasgow University's law school at the age of 17 for a five-year academic program driven by ego and a need for financial security. An excellent student, he was a rotten trainee solicitor for two years at one of Glasgow's most prestigious law firms. And then he got fired an impossible feat in the British system of training for the law. Butler had a week to go in the program when a partner in the firm observed, ''You have the makings of a wonderful lawyer, but you just don't seem to care.''

''A bit crazy, I was a party animal showing disrespect for my profession, who found the law exceedingly dull,'' he recalls. ''This was the most unhappy period in my life. Looking back, I was the luckiest man alive to have screwed up.''

Two days after his dismissal at the end of 1995, Butler started his new life as an actor in London. He found a series of ''crap'' jobs immediately, including a brief gig demonstrating toys at a trade show.

''There I was, wearing the same suit as when I was a solicitor, explaining the virtues of toy cares to a group of bored merchants. My life had suddenly changed,'' he laughs. ''I had been Head Boy of my school, the president of Glasgow University Law Society, part of a firm that was the Queen's solicitors in Scotland and the managers of the Carnegie estate.''

But a few weeks later, Steven Berkoff who plays his uncle in 'Attila' offered him a small part in the London production of ''Coriolanus'' and has made his living from acting ever since. While rehearsing the play, the London-based bachelor was offered a leading part in the stage-version of ''Trainspotting,'' and followed it up with such movies as ''Mrs. Brown,'' ''Fast Food,'' ''One More Kiss,'' ''The Cherry Orchard'' and ''Shooters.''

''All I want now,'' he laughs, ''is to fall in love and become a huge movie star.''

Phantom’ star tackles romantic role in ‘Dear Frankie’

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Article Date: April 10, 2005 | Publication: Arizona Tribune | Author: JENIFER HUNT

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 current obsession on the big screen.

(Men, please don’t take offense. After all, we pretend not to notice that you hesitate when asked if we are as attractive as Angelina Jolie.)

Earlier this year I witnessed CAL as groups of glassy-eyed women lined up again and again to watch Gerard Butler as the tragic Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera."

Now — just when women thought it was safe to go to the movies without a supply of Kleenex — comes Butler’s latest romantic drama, "Dear Frankie," scheduled to open Friday in the Valley. It’s the story of a single mother (Emily Mortimer) who enlists a stranger (Butler) to impersonate the father she invented through letters for her deaf 9-year-old son, Frankie.

Gerard recently took a few minutes to talk about his own tragic love life, his suspicions that the Phantom was a virgin, and more.

Q: Acting-wise, how did you keep your character open to forming an attachment to Frankie when he had no intention of being more than a hired hand?

A: Well, that’s an interesting point because the Stranger is so not thinking about romance right now. When he is employed to take on this task (of posing as Frankie’s father), it’s a simple business arrangement and he hasn’t any intention of becoming charmed or emotionally involved. And I think that when he does become involved with Lizzie, it is a relationship born out of two wounded souls.

Q: Do you feel that you have to have a strong physical chemistry with your leading lady to have the relationship feel legitimate to the audience, or can chemistry be faked?

A: Well, I think it helps, without a doubt, to have a strong chemistry with the other actor. And whether it’s a sexual or friendly chemistry, some kind of connection to play on is important. I had always loved Emily as an actress, and the minute I heard she was in it I thought, "This is going to be a classy project." (Noise of multiple cell phones ringing wildly.) You know people have just dumped their stuff in my room, and now I have cell phones going off that don’t belong to me. It’s driving me (expletive) crazy. Uh, what was I talking about?

Q: Um, you always loved Emily Mortimer as an actress.

A: Yes, the second we met we got on so well. She is the coolest actress I ever worked with, and the most easygoing, fun and down to earth. . . . Her brilliance made it a lot easier for me to play my role, especially the scene where we kiss.

Q: I’ve never seen such a dramatic kissing scene with such little actual contact.

A: Ah, it’s captivating, isn’t it?

Q: Yes, the kissing was clearly the best part of the movie. (Embarrassed, nervous cough.) Now, in most of your recent films you play a lonely outsider. Are you drawn to those roles or is there something in you that the casting directors are drawn to?

A: It is probably a bit of both. I do love to play characters that kind of stand on the outside, whether it’s in some kind of psychologically disturbed way, wounded way or in (a) cool, sexy way.

Q: They are all romantic roles but you never actually get the girl.

A: I know — it’s like my life. I never really thought about that. I never do really get the girl in any of these movies. It was that way with ‘‘Dracula 2000,’’ and the same in ‘‘Attila.’’ I did this wonderful miniseries called ‘‘The Jury’’ in the UK, and it was kind of the same in that as well.

Q: Thanks for segueing into some sex questions. The Phantom had a kinky side and went for younger girls. How much of Gerard Butler was in that portrayal and how much was acting?

A: Let me say that I think Christine had had everyone in that opera house! (laughter) She just hid it well. She was a big floozy, and that’s why the Phantom wanted her.

Q: He seemed to be a virgin, but maybe you can tell me . . .

A: I think the Phantom was a virgin, and he certainly knew that Christine could teach him a thing or two. Were you asking how much of me was in the Phantom?

Q: Yes, yes. A: The Phantom is somebody who is so filled with passion and who has an incredible darkness in him, and he is very wounded. At the end of the day he was doomed and tragic, and without a doubt I feel a huge amount of that within myself.

Q: Do you think he regretted letting Christine go?

A: Ah, it’s heartbreaking! It’s one of the most heartbreaking moments in the history of movies or the stage. I think yes, he may have regretted his decision at times. But he had to do it. And it’s also such a beautiful, tender moment when he understands that he is doomed to be alone and never have the human love, connection or sexual relationship that he wants. But I’m sure if the Phantom had stayed with Christine the story would never been anywhere near as popular.

Q: What projects are you working on now?

A: I am taking my time with my next choice, but there is definitely a passion project that I hope to start at the end of summer about the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Julia Stiles is going to do that.

Mastering the mask

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Article Date: December 19, 2004 | Publication: The Free Press | Author: LOUIS B. HOBSON

The Phantom's trademark mask was just one more problem for Gerard Butler to overcome.

NEW YORK -- Before he could become the opera ghost in the film version of The Phantom of the Opera, Gerard Butler had to overcome two enormous obstacles. First he had to find the source of the man's pain, loneliness and dark obsessions.

Then Butler had to find just the right mask to hide it all.

The phantom's discrete white mask has become the very symbol for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Gaston Leroux's classic beauty and the beast story.

"The mask had to be beautiful, but also ominous," says Butler. The movie version of the drama opens Wednesday.

"They literally created hundreds of masks of different sizes, shapes, materials, eye shapes and expressions before we got one that was the right texture, physical expression and size."

The day before cameras rolled on his first scene, panic set in.

"I asked (director) Joel Schumacher how it was going to stay on my face," recalls Butler.

"During the fittings I just held it on with my finger."

Make-up and prosthetic experts scurried about their shops, finally settling on a two-sided tape similar to that used to secure wigs, hair pieces and costume pieces.

"It behaved wonderfully in the makeup trailer, but because the opera house sets were so dry, the tape would fuse to my skin.

"I'd bruise my skin taking it off."

The opposite happened when Butler had to perform in the sets for the phantom's underground lair.

"Because of all the water in these sets and the hot lights, the air would be so moist the mask kept slipping off."

Butler jokes the problematic mask helped immensely with portraying the phantom's inner angst.

In reality, Butler just had to look at his own youth to find some of the phantom's motivations.

"I've had a pretty intense and crazy life. I've been through a lot and a lot of it I wish I hadn't."

Butler was born in Glasgow, but moved to Montreal when he was six months old.

"My dad moved the family to Montreal and then a couple of years later left my mother," he recalls.

Butler, his mother and two older siblings moved back to Glasgow.

"I had the best mother on the planet, but you still grow up with certain issues when you grow up without a father."

The family moved in with their grandparents for six months.

"We had nothing and my mom wasn't trained for a job. When we did move out on our own, we lived in a pre-fab house on a council estate, which is not the best place to grow up.

"Fortunately, I come from a really good Catholic family who have high morals and a family that believed strongly in education."

Butler studied law, became the head of his class's law society and got to article for one of the top law firms in Glasgow.

"I hated it. I hated every minute of it. It just wasn't me. I never felt fulfilled. I partied a lot and abused the privileges of my firm."

One day the head of the firm asked Butler to give him one good reason not to fire the articling student.

"I told him there wasn't (one), thanked the firm for everything and quit."

That night Butler went to see a production of Trainspotting in a tiny theatre at the Edinburgh Festival.

"I was blown away. I wanted to be up there on that stage, so I packed my bags and headed for London."

The next year, Butler returned to the Edinburgh Festival as the lead in a new production of Trainspotting, which became the hit of the festival.

"The movie had come out. It was a hot property and suddenly I had a career."

His first film performance was a cameo in 1997's Mrs. Brown. For the next three years, he appeared in British films and TV productions.

In 2000, he nabbed two roles that gave him international exposure. He starred as the conquering Hun in the TV mini-series Attila and as a contemporary vampire in Dracula 2000.

"We really went for the sensuality with Dracula. I thought it was a lark. I never really expected anything to come of it," he admits.

Butler came to Schumacher's attention when the director was in St. Louis scouting locations for a movie that never came to fruition.

"There's not much to do at night in St. Louis," said Schumacher. "Right behind my hotel was a 16-screen multi-plex. I walked over, only to discover I'd seen every movie except Dracula 2000."

He bought his ticket and sat down, expecting to doze off -- until Butler came on screen.

"I told my producer friend who was sitting beside me that this Jerry Butler had incredible screen presence."

When he returned to Los Angeles, Schumacher got hold of Butler's agent, met with the Scotsman and promised they'd work together one day.

Two years later when he was casting for Phantom, Schumacher lamented that Butler would be high on his list if only the actor could sing. Then Schumacher remembered that Butler said he was the lead singer in a rock band while he was at college.

"When Joel contacted me I said I thought I could sing the score," says Butler.

He was filming Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life at the time and immediately contacted a voice coach.

"She worked with me on other songs until finally we dared work on Music of the Night. She told me I could do it, so I let Joel set up an audition for me with Andrew Lloyd Webber."

Webber said nothing to Butler when the actor arrived.

Schumacher sat behind Webber sweating.

"I wondered what I'd subjected poor Jerry to.

"Then he sang. When he finished, Andrew rose from his chair, went over to Jerry and shook his hand," recalls Schumacher.

Gerard Butler Interview

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Article Date: July 1, 2001 | Publication: Impact Magazine | Author: Unknown

Gerard Butler sits in the Dorchester Hotel after being rushed in from the set of his new film. He has something of a Wolverine look, mixed in with a little Dougray Scott( the actor originally picked for that mutant role). His shoulder length hair and lyrical Scottish voice combine to create an image of an easy-going and laconical character- far removed from the Lord of Darkness he plays in the newly released Dracula 2001. That's probably because he's filming the much anticipated REIGN OF FIRE (complete with cgi dragons) in Ireland.

Vampires and New Orleans have gone hand in hand for some time. It was only a matter of time before the city played host to a more cinematically hip strain of vampires and Wes Craven's addition to the legend of dracula taps a new and fresh vein...

This version starts in the UK but quickly transfers its action to the Big Easy as Abraham Van Helsing ( Christopher Plummer) and Simon Sheppard (Jonny Lee Miller) race against time to stop the escapee Count from claiming the life essence of Mary Heller. Heller has no idea of her destiny, but senses darkness on the way. However there's an unholy revelation that no-one could have foreseen...

"when I was filming outside the Virgin Megastore in New Orleans there was a car that went up and down and a lady baring her breasts. That pretty much sums up the place. After about an hour I gave up trying to make sense of it. That's no bad thing. There needs to be a little darkness for the film. It's a hot, sweaty, vibrant dark town and it really helped to create a feel for the character on a psychological level...you can wander the streets until six in the morning...and then I'd meet my co-star Jonny ( Lee Miller) coming the other way(laughs)."

Dracula 2001 isn't the old-fashioned horror flick (though, yes it does contain all the main ingredients of a Wes Craven production. Not surprisingly, as Mr. Craven acts as Exec. Producer this time with Patrick Lussier directing, from a Joel-Highlander:Endgame- Soisson screenplay).The film also requires some nifty stunt work, special FX and fight sequences.

" I had a lot of flying to do. I had white contact lenses that I had to wear over my eyes and a harness shoved into my groin and then hung upside down from a wire. Maybe it's me but I found that all quite unpleasant" he laughs, "on my final day, I was tied up and submerged in swamp water and there was an alligator about 20 feet away. I was tied down so I couldn't get out and there was a compression unit that made me fly up through the water. I had earplugs up my nose and everything, but it felt like 2 hot spikes going through my brain! But it was certainly a challenge."

Dracula 2001( originally called Dracula 2000 when it was released to the US to thunderous indifference last year) is no great work of art -in fact the joke about vampires/Virgin Mehastores might be funny once - but becomes irritatingly blatant product placement after the hundredth such visual reference. Most of its scary proceedings are of the now overly familiar type. However its all silly fun and is notable for taking a new and somewhat inspired angle on Dracula's origins with a very nice and unexpected twist.(In fact if this plot-point had been expanded upon and some of the more derring do played down this film would have been much better). But throw in New Orleans as a back drop,a hip soundtrack and Star Trek's Jeri Ryan (7 of 9) as a guest star and it would be hard not to produce a film ideal for beer and pizza somewhere down the line.

Though a nice stepping stone for Butler we'll be seeing more of him in the months to come, with a range of movies poised to set the screen alight, including that much anticipated post apocalyptic blockbuster.

"Yup,I'm over in Dublin at the moment. Reign Of Fire is a $95 million dollar movie with Matthew McConaughey and Christian bale. They were thinking of moving the production( because of the foot and mouth disease) but it' going to stay put now. We'll be filming into the middle of June.Then it's going to be six months of CGI work. I think about $33 million of the budget has been put aside for that. I play a character called Creedy. Christian Bale and I play best mates and we're in a castle together with a bunch of other people. We're struggling to get by because everything is burned out and gone. It's a solid action movie. I'll also be doing a six-part drama series called The Jury."

It has just been announced that Butler will be starring in the big screen adaptation of Timeline. He will play Marek, the leader of a team who travel back in time to play a misplaced archaeologist ( hopefully the film will be better than the generically plotted book). Butler's name has also been linked to the James Bond franchise. (He actually appeared as a doomed sailor in Tomorrow Never Dies). While there is little doubt he has the confidence and style for such a prominent part, it would seem to be just the idle speculation that comes around between 007 movies. Butler may well have met with EON, the company behind the Bond movies, but Brosnan is a definite for the next Bond film (due to start production next year) and has indicated to Impact that he may well stay on for at least one more after that. One doubts that Butler is worrying too much.

Journalist, возвращайся скорее, нам будет очень тебя не хватать!

Сразу говорю: беру на себя Mastering the mask и Phantom’ star tackles romantic role in ‘Dear Frankie’ , ок? До конца недели, как обычно, постараюсь!

Journalist, как вернешься, сразу к нам! :D
Всех поздравляю с ответом Тамары!
Все-таки долго ждали...

Всем привет! Зашла на минутку. Здорово, что пришло письмо.

Беру на себя перевод статьи
Article Date: December 10, 2000 | Publication: Scotland on Sunday | Author: John Millar
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Article Date: January 23, 2001 | Publication: Copley News Service | Author: Eirik Knutzen
Кажется, они еще свободны? Одна в пятницу будет точно, а может, и обе два.

Вот, пока готова только "коротушка":)

In Style - German Edition, 26.04.2005

Его глубокий, прокуренный голос подчёркивает его сексуальную привлекательность: Джерард Батлер, видный любовник Анджелины Джоли в "Ларе Крофт-2" и страстный в "Призраке Оперы" – совершенный парень: широкие плечи, выразительные черты и вид а-ля "крошка, кто может быть лучше меня". Начиная с 21 апреля 35-летнего шотландца можно увидеть в романтической драме "Дорогой Фрэнки".

- Ты находился перед камерой с такими прекрасными женщинами вроде Джоли, теерь вот Мортимер. Твои друзья должны тебе завидовать...

- Да, я чертовски здорово притягиваю удачу! Но девушкам тоже изрядно везёт – ведь я вполне ничего из себя!

- Но всё-таки ты на данный момент одинок?

- (нерешительно) Хммм... Сказал бы, что так.

- Чем должна обладать женщина, чтобы изменить это положение?

- О, ненавижу такие вопросы!

- Но как один из самых горячих голливудских холостяков ты не можешь обойти его!

- Это потому что мне здесь в Лос-Анджелесе не нравится то, как, к несчастью, неестественно ведут себя многие женщины. Мне нравятся натуральные, милые девушки с индивидуальностью.

- Ты не имеешь ничего против послушной милой, но не очень умной женщины? (прим.перев. – очень интересное выражение, впервые вообще его встречаю: girl next door, дословный перевод - добрая и любящая, но глупенькая девушка/женщина).

- Точно нет.

- В вашем бизнесе, если сталкиваешься с женщиной, то это приводит только к трудностям?

- Именно! Это, возможно, и есть причина, почему я один.

- Как должна одеваться женщина, чтобы произвести на тебя впечатление?

- По случаю праздника нет ничего более прекрасного, чем женщина в чём-то умопомрачительном, это очень просто, удивительно женственно.

- А каков твой стиль для загородных прогулок?

- На премьеры я одеваюсь элегантно: шикарная, подходящая обувь. Но по своему собственному выбору я надеваю полинявшие джинсы и футболку: классно, удобно, несерьёзно.

- У тебя есть любимый предмет одежды?

- О, хотел бы я, чтобы он у меня ещё был! Около 29 лет назад у меня была синяя футболка, которую мне подарили. Она доходила мне до колен в то время. Лучшая подружка моей матери привезла мне её из Канады, на ней было написано "Калгари". Естественно, с годами она полиняла и выцвела, но она мне нравилась! Недавно я потерял её во время путешествия. Это разбило моё сердце.

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Неужели он и правда такой сентиментальный фетишист?:D Ай, всё равно люблю:D :love

Идея Бёрнса-Деппа - фу. И кому только пришло в голову. Совсем не тот типаж, не тот темперамент.
(и к тому же беднягу Барри он запорол беспощадно).

2 Vita:

Интересно. В Sunset Boulevard тоже есть это выражение:

With one smile I'm the girl next door
Or the love that you are hungered for...

Теперь буду знать, что оно означает. Спасибо.

Аналогичного мнения. Не вяжется у меня Депп с Бёрнсом, совсем. Впрочем, ладно, это ж были поиски, потом-то они поняли, кто на что годится;). Меня поразил другой факт: оказывается, это такой давний проект... И назывался он тогда иначе... А дело всё никак с мёртвой точки не сдвинется:(.

Да не за что, собственно:). Сама впервые его увидела. Думаю, если односложно его на русский переводить, то можно запросто сказать "пустышка", ну или что-то в том же ключе. Ну чтоб не подбирать ряд слов для конкретизации:).

"Пустышка" - слишком жестоко :) ИМХО, скорее "синица в руках". У меня это выражение в сочетании с приведенным Вами переводом ассоциируется с Сюзанной из фильма Рене Клера "Ночные красавицы", чью любовь герой Жерара Филипа так долго не замечал, но в конце концов таки заметил :)
Сорри за оффтопик.

Vita , а я раньше думала, что это вроде как "своя в доску" девчонка. Вот так и проходят заблуждения.....:rolleyes:

Ну,вроде сдвинулось-таки,раз сьемки планируются на июль :) У них там с финансированием проблема главная была:confused:

Ну, Alise, вот это да! Чьих рук это дело? Не ваших чаем?:D :D

Re: Мы ждали, ждали и наконец дождались!
 

В русском прокате это называлось "Сонной лощиной". Кстати, Миранда Ричардсон (мадам Жири из ПО) там изображает злую мачеху, да еще и ведьму :) Удаются ей роли злодеек!

Как я хочу взять что-нибудь перевести, но увы я в пятницу улетаю на 2 недели!!! Я не знаю как я буду без Вас!!!!

Так это замечательно куда-нибудь улететь;) Вернешься с новыми силами и впечатлениями.

Ок, пусть будет "синица в руках":). Что-то такое приземлённо-домашнее. Пожалуй, да, так.

Little Viper, как говорится, не имей 100 рублей, а... имей словарь Lingvo 9.0:D Самый верный помощник переводчика:). Даже опытного.

Echo, спасибо за помощь! Вот что-то такое вертелось на языке, но никак не получалось поймать: "Сонная лощина". Как ни странно, но не помню я там Ричардсон:(.

Journalist, спасибо за совет! Я, правда, думаю, что эта новость скорее относится к новостям сайта, а не к новостям Джерри, так что предоставлю это ЛаЛуне :-)
Возвращайся поскорее, нам будет не хватать тебя! :ale: :love
Малышка, аналогично :-) :flowers:

Нора, если не сложно, объясни, пожалуйста, что Джонни не так сделал (неужели ответ будет "всё"?! :confused: ). Я про Барри ничего не знаю - честно признаюсь, хоть и стыдно, конечно, - поэтому на самом деле очень хочу узнать, в чём там дело. Спасибо :-)
Спасибо, что не воробей :D ;)

Я сегодня беглым набегом :)
 

...масло-масленое, но в точку... ;) Тьфу, в голове опять бардак полнейший... на сей раз - творческий. Так... к делу... Девчата, пляшите, ибо нам еще одно письмо. На сей раз от моего лондонского друга. :p Он согласился помочь нам в нашем нелегком труде и ждет вопросы. Впрочем, пока это только новость, потому что следует ждать возвращения Малышки и Journalist'ки. Но как факт само по себе приятно. :D

ой, Steshka, это вы/ты про что?
....чай я люблю, но я "им" ничего не делала...

Чета все разъезжаются кто куда... сначала Журналист, теперь вот Малышка...скоро "воробьи" на юг полетят, потом... другая живность...

на скока я знаю - две экранизации были "практически одновременно". Так вот одна из них с Деппом и М. Ричардсон. (неплохой фильм)

КУДА вопросы собираем?
 

УРА!
предлагаю ПЕРВЫЙ вопрос:

Джерри, ЧТО вы знаете о России?

У меня такой вопрос!!! Может кто-нибудь мне пару статеек подкинуть??? А то я без дела не могу!!!!

Вааа, Малышка, мне бы так! Держи, надеюсь, здесь этого ещё не было. Старенькая, правда.

GERARD BUTLER: 'Attila'
In the winter of 1999, Glasgow-born Gerard Butler left his home in London to visit New York, spend Christmas in Nashville and celebrate New Year's Eve in Sun Valley, Idaho. His ultimate destination was Los Angeles, where a manager and an agent anxiously awaited his arrival.
The tall, sleek, dark, hairy and intense actor having burned himself up on the ski slopes finally arrived in Hollywood in early February, 2000. By March, the relative unknown (''Trainspotting'' and ''Mrs. Brown'') was cast in the title role of ''Attila,'' a two-part, four-hour miniseries about the life and times of the most famous Hun of them all. After a month of pumping iron and learning to ride a horse, he shipped off to Lithuania for a 65-day shoot.
''I was a little surprised because, on the first audition, one of the producers said, 'We've got Attila walking through the door here,''' says Butler, 31, in his native Scottish burr, thick enough to make Sean Connery sound like a Cockney. ''Not only that, I had to do the whole interview in an American accent. They were looking for a charismatic, powerful, muscular, virile, intelligent and proud man and I kept thinking, 'Oh, my God, I can't do that.'''
A huge spectacle, ''Attila'' chronicles the King of the Huns' supposed exploits from birth (circa 406) somewhere in Central Asia until his death in 453 apparently of a massive stroke on his wedding night. Orphaned as a child, Attila is adopted by his uncle, King Rua (Steven Berkoff), the leader of several Hun tribes content to rape and pillage in neighboring regions. A visionary, he eventually united the barbarian tribes and led the devastating attack on the Roman Empire from 441 to 443. For good measure, he also invaded Gaul and Italy to lay claim to a major portion of the known world.
For a fraction of what it would cost to mount the epic production in the U.S., elaborate sets representing Hun villages, Roman aqueducts, the Imperial Palace and the Appian Way were constructed in Vilnius and the surrounding countryside. Powers Boothe was flown in to portray Attila's mentor and greatest enemy Roman General Flavius Aetis; Simmone Jade McKinnon sheds several layers of clothing as the sexy slave girl N'Kara; Pauline Lynch checks in as the short soothsayer Galen and Tim Curry vamps it up as Emperor Theodosius.
Five hundred Lithuanian extras and an equal number of horses (made to look like a cast of thousands by computer graphic imagery) were rounded up to die over and over again.
''I loved working there I even considered moving to Vilnius at one point,'' says Butler. ''It's a lovely city with a relaxed lifestyle that has several beautiful hotels to match anything in the West. And the people are warm, friendly and full of life. I can't say the same about Bulgaria ...''

Although totally exhausted after two months of fighting Roman legionnaires with short swords and long spears, Butler headed straight from Eastern Europe to Toronto, Canada, in order to shoot his title role in the recently released feature film ''Dracula 2000.''
''It was a lot of fun, with a wild, crazy script and a great cast that includes Christopher Plummer,'' he says. ''Going along at quite a pace, it has a lot of sexiness and darkness as well.''
Born in Scotland along with two older siblings, Butler spent the first 2 1/2 years of his life in Montreal, Canada, where his entrepreneurial father, Edward, sought to establish several businesses. When several business ventures failed, Edward sought his fortune in Toronto while his destitute, but resourceful wife, Margaret, took the children back to Paisley, a community just outside Glasgow.
''I didn't see my father again until he visited us in Scotland 14 years later,'' says Butler, ''but after that I saw him in Toronto several times. He was nuts, very funny and a wonderful man who lost fortunes several times. I lived in his apartment when he went off to Togo in Africa to buy $50,000 worth of gold. But he bought $50,000 worth of copper by mistake, then wound up in a Togo hospital with malaria. My French-Canadian stepmother flew off to rescue him, slipped on an airport ramp, broke her ankle and wound up in the same hospital as my dad.''
A wild child with a penchant for travel himself, Butler drove his mother and ''various bankers'' crazy by taking off to visit friends and relatives in North America on several occasions. In 1987, he visited aunts in Alaska and San Diego, where he did clean-up jobs at Sea World for a summer. In 1991, he took a year off from law school to work in a traveling carnival at California county fairs making a ''small fortune'' bilking small kids out of money with the Whacky Wire concession.
But Butler had his heart set on becoming an actor at the age of 12 after taking part in a school play. Seeing the mediocre action-fantasy film ''Krull'' (1983) made up his mind. Then he entered Glasgow University's law school at the age of 17 for a five-year academic program driven by ego and a need for financial security. An excellent student, he was a rotten trainee solicitor for two years at one of Glasgow's most prestigious law firms. And then he got fired an impossible feat in the British system of training for the law. Butler had a week to go in the program when a partner in the firm observed, ''You have the makings of a wonderful lawyer, but you just don't seem to care.''
''A bit crazy, I was a party animal showing disrespect for my profession, who found the law exceedingly dull,'' he recalls. ''This was the most unhappy period in my life. Looking back, I was the luckiest man alive to have screwed up.''
Two days after his dismissal at the end of 1995, Butler started his new life as an actor in London. He found a series of ''crap'' jobs immediately, including a brief gig demonstrating toys at a trade show.
''There I was, wearing the same suit as when I was a solicitor, explaining the virtues of toy cares to a group of bored merchants. My life had suddenly changed,'' he laughs. ''I had been Head Boy of my school, the president of Glasgow University Law Society, part of a firm that was the Queen's solicitors in Scotland and the managers of the Carnegie estate.''
But a few weeks later, Steven Berkoff who plays his uncle in 'Attila' offered him a small part in the London production of ''Coriolanus'' and has made his living from acting ever since. While rehearsing the play, the London-based bachelor was offered a leading part in the stage-version of ''Trainspotting,'' and followed it up with such movies as ''Mrs. Brown,'' ''Fast Food,'' ''One More Kiss,'' ''The Cherry Orchard'' and ''Shooters.''
''All I want now,'' he laughs, ''is to fall in love and become a huge movie star.''

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А дела-то наши начинают налаживаться, похоже! :-)
Малышка ещё здесь, я смотрю, и рвётся в бой :-))) А вот Journalist'ку, конечно, нужно подождать, п.ч. у неё наверняка будет множество интересных вопросов.
Не то что у меня.
Что бы спросить?! 8-0

Я с собой возьму.....

ЛаЛуна - двойное поздравление - с двумя письмами :)
Вот что значит - взялись все дружно задело! главное - не опускать руки - получается совершенно замечательный сайт! :)

вопросов, наверное, наберется воз и маленькая тележка! ;)

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Интересно, а это технически осуществимо? :-))) Но помечтать-то можно, да ведь. ;-)))

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Ох-хо-хо... Все мои вопросы сразу рассеялись:D Неужели ни одного не вспомню?! Ну и задачка получается;)

Vita, вот так оно и бывает:D Столько о Джерри интервью прочитано, что и не знаешь, что еще хочется узнать.
Alise, не боишься ответа Зима Водка Медведи?;) Это я смеюсь, конечно.

Little Viper, ага, то-то и оно, что столько прочитано и узнано, что кажетс, будто ничего нового и быть не может:D. Вот, помнится, Нора когда-то сокрушалась, что у журналистов нет фантазии, а у неё, меж тем, немало вопросов, которые она хотела бы задать м-ру Батлеру:). Нора, к вам с полными надежды и мольбы глазами обращаюсь: вопросы зафиксированы;)? А то, чую, мы так ни до чего хорошего не договоримся и дотянем до того, что будет поздно... А пока, скрестив пальчики, будем ожидать возвращения Journalist'ки, у неё фантазия богатая - она придумает, о чём спросить:D

Мне, кстати, вопрос Alise понравился, интересно было бы знать:-)), хотя, признАюсь, именно такого ответа (Зима Водка Медведи) и боюсь:). Хотя, думаю, про баню он тоже может вспомнить, мы ж ентим делом славимся:D

да как тебе сказать.... а может я надеюсь быть "приятно удивленной"... ;)
...в любом случае, вот лично мне это очень интересно..
а ежели я "кода-нибудь" дочитаю все переведенные интерьвью - надеюсь, что появятся еще вопросы....хм....или сразу ответы...

Но Джерри ведь играл в Cherry Orchard, может, у него есть ещё какие-нибудь представления о России :-)
Пусть приезжает и сам посмотрит :-))