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Tough Love - How Gerard Butler became Hollywood’s favourite soft-centered hard man
One of the ladies at GALS scanned images of an article in the Daily Telegraph Magazine and posted links to them. I thought it was such an amazing article on Gerry that it was worth taking the time to transcribe it and share with everyone here (please forgive any typos :P ). It's long but very worth the time to it takes to read it. It is both funny and sad at the same time and brought tears to my eyes as I was reading it.
Daily Telegraph Magazine - July 2009 (UK)
18 July 2009
(cover story)
Tough Love - How Gerard Butler became Hollywood’s favourite soft-centered hard man
Double Winner
Muscular action hero one moment, sensitive rom-com the next, Gerard Butler’s talent for mixing the rough with the smooth has made him one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars.
Interview by Chloe Fox
Gerard Butler is in mid-flow, telling me a very funny – and characteristically self-deprecating – story about trying to persuade the producers of his latest film, The Ugly Truth, that he should swap his native Scottish accent for a put-on American one – “But with an American accent you won’t be as likeable, they said. Yes, I will, trust me, I said. Well, we don’t, they said’ – when we were interrupted by a waiter. ‘Excuse me, Mr. Butler, I have a Mr. Brad Pitt on the phone for you.’ Butler goes to take the call and returns a few minutes later muttering awkwardly about ‘working on a project together’. This is obviously what happens in Hollywood; even before Pitt’s call, our dinner at the exclusive L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills has been interrupted twice – one by an English producer working on a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez attached that they would ‘love’ him to do, and subsequently by Julia Roberts’s manager, who feels compelled to pass on the very important message that ‘Julia says hi’.
When a waitress comes over and wonders if Mr. Butler wouldn’t mind going to see Tom Cruise in his suite when he has a moment, I begin to smell a rat. Every waiter in Hollywood is an actor in disguise and Butler cast two in his prank. As for the star of the show, he is beside himself with the hysteria of it, booming with laughter until the tears stream down his cheeks.
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Daily Telegraph Magazine - July 2009 (UK)
18 July 2009
(cover story)
Tough Love - How Gerard Butler became Hollywood’s favourite soft-centered hard man
Double Winner
Muscular action hero one moment, sensitive rom-com the next, Gerard Butler’s talent for mixing the rough with the smooth has made him one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars.
Interview by Chloe Fox
Gerard Butler is in mid-flow, telling me a very funny – and characteristically self-deprecating – story about trying to persuade the producers of his latest film, The Ugly Truth, that he should swap his native Scottish accent for a put-on American one – “But with an American accent you won’t be as likeable, they said. Yes, I will, trust me, I said. Well, we don’t, they said’ – when we were interrupted by a waiter. ‘Excuse me, Mr. Butler, I have a Mr. Brad Pitt on the phone for you.’ Butler goes to take the call and returns a few minutes later muttering awkwardly about ‘working on a project together’. This is obviously what happens in Hollywood; even before Pitt’s call, our dinner at the exclusive L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills has been interrupted twice – one by an English producer working on a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez attached that they would ‘love’ him to do, and subsequently by Julia Roberts’s manager, who feels compelled to pass on the very important message that ‘Julia says hi’.
When a waitress comes over and wonders if Mr. Butler wouldn’t mind going to see Tom Cruise in his suite when he has a moment, I begin to smell a rat. Every waiter in Hollywood is an actor in disguise and Butler cast two in his prank. As for the star of the show, he is beside himself with the hysteria of it, booming with laughter until the tears stream down his cheeks.
( much more under here )
calm
silly
nervous
content
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creative
crappy
pissed off
