I have it on film, the whole team was screaming since they couldn't believe it. I hit four in a row at the target’s head. For Machine Gun Preacher, I spent time with the Michigan SWAT team and fired a sniper rifle. "In this movie, the audience gets payback.”Īfter some sips from a can of sugar-free Red Bull, the 43-year-old actor reflects on his career and what else we can expect from him. We went to war a few months later but it wasn’t the same," Butler says. “After 9/11, people needed something visceral, to see the guys who did something terrible pay for it. He explains that the film's wide allure across gender or other demographic lines comes from the catharsis it provides. We’re making a hopefully entertaining action movie but we wanted to give it substance.” "But the way I came up with, to have to pull the president’s hands off his wife as the car goes over? By the time Banning has to do that, you’re in it, you’re with him. "In the original script we were on snowmobiles, she went down, then I had to dive into the water," Butler says. As producer on the film-his fifth project in such a role- he made a crucial change to the scene in which Banning saves the President at the cost of the First Lady's life. get prepared to get misty-eyed in some parts.).
Butler flexes and shoots plenty (more on his marksman skills below!), but he also made sure the film didn't run purely on testosterone (i.e. While he's more dashing the menacing in person, he does get his macho fix in his latest film Olympus Has Fallen, which hit theaters this weekend (find your nearest theater here).Īs Secret Service agent Mike Banning, he attempts to save the president and the country after the White House succumbs to a foreign attack. "I want to be badass all weekend," he smirks, showing off his Scottish accent and his roguish charm. On a recent sunny weekend morning in Los Angeles, Gerard Butler stands in the middle of a hotel room suite with his fingers pointed in a mock gun pose.
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