Journalists and women hunt Gerard Butler with enviable constancy - alas, neither of those or others almost never get to succeed. A man with mysterious and, they say, the dark past today looks like an exemplary macho and a real Hollywood star of a global scale. Catch the actor on the frankness was rarely managed, because at the battlers the principle: not a word about personal life. Nevertheless, some lucky people managed to talk our hero.
- Hello, Gerard. Listen, it was always interesting for me, where are such charismatic and steep people, how are you?
- (laughs.) Hi. I will tell you. I was born in Scotland, in Glasgow, and my family comes from the small town of Paisley. This is a city where eighty percent of the population are busy in cotton production. And you know, I would never think that I would be an actor to whom the compliments say. After all, there is the famous Scot Shon Connery, and this was enough for Scotland. Even more than enough.
- How did you get that you decided to become an actor? Well, was the moment in childhood, when did you prepare yourself for this profession? For example, Mohammed Ali asked her brother to throw stones into it to shy away from the stones just the bias of the head. As we know, the legendary boxer was useful. Was something like you?
- I always fantasized. But not just fantasized, and at some moments simply could not switch from the "Fantasy" regime into the "Reality" mode. Once I introduced that for me, the train rushes behind my back, and I run away from him. I'm running away and I can't run away. I dreamed so much in that, that he smashed his whole room to hell and tried to jump into the window. My mom literally grabbed me behind my feet. And this happened often. I am in war, then an ivory trader and trading with pirates in jakarta tritons ... fantasies were so real that I jumped my heart and sweated the palm.
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- Oh. And in these fantasies, you somehow imagined yourself as an actor, and ...
- Not, not so. You see, my family was slightly below the middle class and slightly above the worker. Parents dreamed that I became a lawyer and wore a tie. To say: "One of ours is a lawyer." And they would answer: "Wow!" So I entered the university at the Faculty of Faculty. Now it's already clear that I am frankly lucky in life. The study was easy, soon I was chosen by the presidency of a law firm. And moreover, I graduated with honors from the university. I am still surprised how it happened. You see, I am not an academic person at all. Well, that which constantly teaches something, studies. If I'm wondering, I graduate from this per minute. Ask Cascaders. (Laughs.)
Well, here. I took a vacation and went to America. It came such a period of time when something like you, everything is not like that. Needed fresh air. In my homeland, I controlled myself, I was controlled, and here I could do anything and did anything. I lived in Los Angeles on Venice Beach with three Irish guys who were constantly firmly drunk. It was a great time. I convinced myself that this youth is that this is life and I just have such a character - I am a shameful one. We were interrupted by random earnings on some fairs, in some dubious places. Many nonsense has done. And once I discovered myself shaped in handcuffs in the police station. I spent time in the chamber in my old Levi's and leather jacket and with hair, like Jim Morrison. But formally, I still remained president of a law firm in Glasgow. I can not believe what I say it. Better I will not. (Laughs.)
- Please continue. This is the best interview in my career.
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- In no case!
- Eh ... There were several excellent stories at the time. However, I returned to the last year of the university. And there the final year of study is not theory, but practice. That is, you go to work in an already existing office and start to plow truly. In general, full-fledged such internship. And my employers fired me a week before assigning me qualifications, imagine? By that time I became sadly known in the environment of Scotland lawyers. Much at the time came out of control.
When I put on a tie and suit, such despair absorbed me, such a longing ... In general, when they drove me, I could not imagine what to do next. You have no idea how humiliating and bitterly was to say mom about it. After all, I destroyed her dreams. The next day I went to London. And you know what I think? If then I did not lose work, I wouldn't sit with you now. My mom after my departure sent me a letter, where I wrote that I would support me and be proud of me anyway. But now, years later, she does not premict to read the notation and to gain life. (Smiles.) You probably thought that if there was a star in the family, then some special attitude towards her? Maybe someone and so, but my relatives, literally all, just adore me to teach me. Love them. (Smiles.)
- They say your relationship with the father was far from the ideal ...
- He died for a long time, and yes, we have not seen fourteen years. Yet, I decided to fly to him on the funeral in Canada. Another crazy story is connected with this, by the way. At this time I met with one girl, who often quarreled, and in one day she broke my passport. Imagine? I need to fly back to Scotland, and I have no documents. I'm going to control at the airport and begging the employee to skip me on the student, I explain everything to him. He says: "Well, pass, but agree with relatives to meet you at Glasgow Airport with a birth certificate. Otherwise, they will not be released from the airport. " I flew and worried that I would not be allowed home. I arrive and go to the rack, I show the student, and there they say that they are aware of, there is a woman with my birth certificate. It was my mom. And then I thought: "God, what a moron I am, who needs to be illegally visiting Scotland?! After all, there is no dilent of the country. Everywhere is better than here. "
But now I understand that it was not right. Scotland is an excellent country. With all your good and bad qualities I owe her. She made me what I am. There is no land birthday. We somehow filmed a movie where I played Attila, and there were such sensitive moments for the history of my people. I sobbed. Truth. I almost had a hysterical. My country carried so much, so many people gave life for her. It scares it very much, and they are proud of it.
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- So, we found out that you almost became a lawyer. And when did the passion for cinema appeared?
"I went to the most distinctive festivals, some theaters, until once fell to the play" on the needle ". I knew that I would get no worse than that guy on stage in the lead role. And most likely, better. I was engaged in telemarketing, convincing people to buy things that I learned about ten minutes ago, I worked as a waiter, and many who. Once in the cafe on the first floor I ran into Stephen Berkoff. He was a director in the theater and by that time was on the crest of success. I approached him and said that I want to try to role. Bercoff replied: "Why not? Come. After listening to me, the director of casting approached me and literally with tears in my eyes said: "This is the best that I saw Stephen over the past two days." I felt empty and happy, feeling, that I gave myself to the last drop. I was on the seventh heaven: I received a major role from Berkoff! So I became famous. At least in my head. Well, and then there were already "300 Spartans", and the "rock and rollman", and the "Ghost of the Opera", and a lot more.
- By the way, about the "Ghost Opera". They say that you have not been engaged in vocals, but you yourself sing in this film, without doubles. Is it so?
- I always loved singing. True, I do not have a special singing education. So, I took a couple of lessons from professionals. Somehow approached a familiar professor and asked his opinion about his singing. He praised me and advised not to throw this occupation. So I do not throw. (Smiles.)
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- Well, the tricks? Again, they say that you are a little abnormal in relation to yourself, do not take yourself at all.
- There is such. Constantly I get some injuries on the set. Periodically break something. However, it is necessary to understand that the shooting stop means very large money costs. This is the whole industry, the mass of the people is involved, props, technique. And you suddenly jump unsuccessfully and substitute a huge number of people with whom you work. Over the years I have become more responsible, but I still can not deny myself in the pleasure of performing some trick. It is necessary to feel everything yourself. I am absolutely convinced that if you stick to the movies, I should understand how it is to get into the eye, break your hand. After all, not knowing this, it is clearly impossible to play. Almost everyone can run, jump with a gun, shoot a dozen idle cartridges. But not everyone can say so that everyone felt, believed you. This comes only through the physical experiences of what is happening. Won in the "Wave Conqueror" I first took the board in my arms and began to train. I was covered with one wave, then also. Then hit the rock. I thought everything was not smelted. Saving me a bolt, who rushed after me into the water. But now I know on my skin, what is sinking and what emotions are experiencing surfer at that moment.
In general, I think my problem is that I perceive every role as a challenge. Will I be able to sing? Will I be able to be the king of Leonid and lead my people? Will I be a good surfer? I do not give myself a report in that this is just a role, movie. Everything becomes truly. As then, in childhood, when I flew from the train. And on the one hand, as a rule, the role is obtained. But on the other hand, the scars often remain. Even hospitalization and defibrillator happened. Nothing is just true. Everything has the price. And you know what? I'm glad to cry. Because it is a huge pleasure when some guy is suitable for you and says: "You know, such a hero struck me so much, so motivated that I decided to drop out, I began to play sports and became brave."
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- Listen, let's come true: After all, you had some frankly failure films. Well, for example, "Beowulf and Grendel" or "Trap Trap". How do you feel about failure?
- Well, first, they failed not because of me. (Laughs.) There is no my guilt. And secondly, the same experience! Stunning experience. You get into a different world, a completely different world, which was invented by the scripts, and you should live there. These are different universes. It is difficult to describe such feelings. Now I am on average in two or three pictures per year. And advertising, photography, interviews and festivals. I do not buy at all on mistakes or, on the contrary, on success. For me, the process is more important and how accurately I was able to play my hero. It is so amazing, so diverse that sometimes I say: "Everything, I am empty. Enough. " And then I'm leaving in Malibu. There is a house there. Recharge batteries, so to speak.
- Oh, you seem to have an apartment in New York?
- Yes, it is, but there I appear extremely rarely. In addition to the unconditional advantages, life in the metropolis has its own minuses, the city takes a lot of energy. For some reason I can't live in Los Angeles for a long time in Los Angeles, nor in the "Big Apple." And in Malibu I have a house in the mountainous part, not on the shore. There I feel right as in my Native Scotland.
- And what about the story with the clinic, where did you treat or from narcotic, or from alcohol addiction?
- On the set, I once again got injuries. And when I say "injuries", it means that I did not cut and did not bring the skin on the knee. Everything is much more serious. I got to the hospital. There I was given painkillers, and I fell on them. Well, such a warehouse of character - I destroy myself and do it regularly and with pleasure. Anyway, I got to the center of Betty Ford, where helping such as me. When you hear the phrase "Rehabilitation Center", then comes to mind a gloomy clinic with disappearances that fit in full program. But you know ... I am glad that it managed to overcome it. Betty Ford has a course that was called "pain management". It helps me. True helps. I learned to cope with physical suffering, discomfort. I still remember the words of one guy, he told me: "Yes, I absolutely do not care about your X-rays or at MRI. Do not care and confuse what happened to you there. I will teach you how to send pain for three fun letters! " And I learned. At least I think so.
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"Many are called a womanizer, and in general you have the glory of Lovelas and the heart. What do you think about it?
- Why am I loved?! Definitely it is not about me. Paparazzi and journalists are forever seized what is not. But I will reveal the secret: I have a talent to keep secrets. I have long-term relationships and two years, and five years. And no one, no journalist knows about them. But they are happy to attribute to me novels with women with whom I met on the official reception or playing a movie. I remember how they were eating, interrupting each other, talked about my novel with Jennifer Aniston. It was ridiculous, to her God. Or with Hilary Swank. And then I showed a photo of me and Cameron Diaz and also claimed that we had a relationship. I am in Nature of the Odnolyuba and the family man. It's true.
"So why didn't you get married then?"
- I am surprised himself. I sincerely do not understand why so. Some time ago I quarreled with my girlfriend. Since I constantly on the set, we communicate mostly on Skype. So, I call her after filming, we start cute, and suddenly she notices the wedding ring on my hand. And my kinheroya, according to the script, is married, and I just did not remove this ring after filming. Well, the claims began: they say, you are secretly married and all that. And at that moment the quarrel I caught myself thinking that I was pleased to wear a ring, I want to marry. It's warm from the thought that I will spend with someone all my life.
- And what happened next? You made it up?
- We broke up…