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Category: Interviews Posted by: admin There was a time when Gerard Butler, eager to get a foothold as an actor, had a guaranteed conversation starter to use when introduced to someone. “It used to be, ‘Hey, how you doing? I’m an actor. I used to be a lawyer,’ ” he says. “Now I don’t really talk about it.” That’s because five years since he set aside his legal education, the 32-year-old Scotsman’s career switch is paying off. He’s currently starring as everyone’s favorite bloodsucker in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. (He also appears in this month’s TV miniseries Attila.)
Cameo -- Gerard Butler
Article Date: January 1, 2001 | Publication: Premiere Magazine | Author: Robert Abele
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Like the fanged one, the actor admits to having “tasted the sweetness of debauchery” himself—once or twice. There was, for example, the year he spent wandering through the States: “I ended up getting drunk for a month solid with a bunch of Irish guys I met.” (This may explain how he wound up working in a touring carnival during this period.)
When he returned to Scotland, he reluctantly joined a legal firm (“I turned up for the interview baked in every way, and I still got the job!”) but couldn’t ignore his longstanding passion for acting. Not that Butler hasn’t had to endure what some might consider bad omens: He was poked in the eye with a wooden stake during rehearsals for the play Coriolanus, and on the first day of shooting his film debut in Mrs. Brown, he had to bound naked into a freezing sea—and as a result, he contracted hypothermia. Still, the drama required by his career has thankfully taken some unnecessary drama out of his personal life. “[During] some of the most miserable periods of my life, people thought I was very happy,” he says. “And now that I’m actually happier, I don’t have to show it. I’m more comfortable with myself.”
