Austin Butler, "Trapped": "I have to admit that when I started on Disney Channel, I wasn't very good."
Video Starring in "Caught Stealing," Austin Butler sat down for a concise video interview, in which he talks about his unfulfilled dream, how he spent his first salary, and his favorite New York movie.
Is he preparing us for a Brad Pitt-like career? Not content with being the hottie that Hollywood is fighting over, Austin Butler, 34, is collecting the names of filmmakers who count on his CV. After Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Baz Luhrmann, Jeff Nichols, Denis Villeneuve and Ari Aster, he is expected to appear in front of Michael Mann's camera for "Heat 2" and reprise the role of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho" for a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel by Luca Guadagnino. For now, it is under the direction of Darren Aronofsky that we find him in "Caught Stealing", a pleasantly zany galley slave thriller, a popular genre in the 1980s, in theaters this Wednesday, August 27.
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As a cool bartender, a former college baseball player with a vanished professional dream, entangled in spite of himself in a mess involving his punk neighbor, the Russian mafia, and killer rabbis, Butler roams the still-sticky New York of 1998 with infectious loser. "When you don't know how to bite, you don't show your teeth ," warns him in the film, a "Yiddish mame" played by the returning Carol Kane. We took advantage of his time in Paris to ask him a few questions related to the film. The best advice he's been given in his life? His own unfulfilled dream? His cult New York film?
Answers in our video, at the top of the article.
