“I performed music, I danced round, and I ate Chinese language meals in there,” he shared. “It made me really feel like I actually lived there. I slept there all evening, and I woke as much as the crew coming in whereas I used to be in my underwear.”
Austin Butler is taking technique performing to a complete new stage.
The Oscar-nominated actor revealed that whereas filming his upcoming thriller Caught Stealing, he truly spent the evening within the East Village residence set the place his character Hank lives.
“For one evening, I had the entire residence to myself,” Butler informed Selection. “I performed music, I danced round, and I ate Chinese language meals in there. It made me really feel like I actually lived there. I slept there all evening, and I woke as much as the crew coming in whereas I used to be in my underwear.”
Butler defined the bizarre sleepover helped him totally immerse himself within the function.
“It made it really feel prefer it wasn’t a set anymore,” he stated. “There are various issues that conspire in opposition to you whenever you’re making a film. You have acquired the lights and the digital camera and the set would not have a ceiling, as a result of they have to gentle it from above. It is tempting to go searching and break the phantasm. So the extra I can do to trick myself, the extra vital it’s.”
In contrast to a few of his extra transformative roles, like Evlis, which noticed Butler grasp Elvis Presley’s iconic voice, or bulking up as Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Half Two, the 34-year-old actor admitted Caught Stealing pressured him to play nearer to himself.
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“It scared me,” he confessed. “One of many causes I acquired into performing within the first place was that I’m very shy. Attending to play characters let me placed on this different pores and skin and placed on this different voice and develop into this different individual. That made me be happy. However taking part in a personality that feels extra like myself left me with nowhere to cover and made me really feel weak.”
Butler stated he nonetheless labored on embodying Hank, an ex-baseball participant turned bartender who falls into harmful territory.
“He wanted to have the physicality of any person who was an elite athlete, however who was not in peak bodily form,” he defined. “I wished to have a sure thickness. So I labored out, however I additionally drank quite a lot of beer.”
Director Darren Aronofsky, who tailored the movie from a graphic novel, stated Butler typically went a bit of too deep into character.
“Austin goes actually deep,” Aronofsky shared. “The truth is, I usually requested him to work rather less arduous and to chill out a bit of bit as a result of I wished a sure looseness.”
Aronofsky added that Caught Stealing is supposed to really feel like a throwback.
“I wished to make a movie about somebody individuals can relate to,” he stated. “Hank is a reasonably good man. He is not hurting anybody. He is only a small city boy in an enormous metropolis, and the world form of crumbles round him. It is good to have a hero who would not have a cape and is a traditional individual.”
Butler admitted that Hank’s flaws weren’t at all times straightforward to embrace.
“Generally I might go, ‘Man, I wish to like Hank extra,'” Butler stated. “I need him to make higher selections. I virtually began to really feel the seeds of judgment for my character. And that is harmful. That is one thing I wanted to avoid. So quite a lot of my journey was discovering his good coronary heart.”
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Set within the late ’90s, the story follows Hank as a easy favor — taking care of a neighbor’s cat — spirals right into a conflict with cops, the Russian mob and Hasidic hitmen.
“There’s quite a lot of miscommunication concerned in our story,” Aronofsky defined. “And that is arduous in case you have it happen at a time when everybody has a mobile phone and is so deeply on-line.”
The director added that the nostalgic backdrop can be a part of the enjoyable for audiences.
“There was one thing actually enjoyable concerning the ’90s,” Aronofsky stated. “The music was superb, the Soviet Union had collapsed and the one factor individuals have been petrified of was Y2K. Our largest controversy was the president’s extramarital affair. Audiences will hopefully get pleasure from going again to all that and seeing answering machines and pay telephones once more.”
Caught Stealing hits theaters August 29.
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