
СМИ о Джерарде Батлере. Том 2
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А будет ли Джерри играть в фильме? Мадя мне как-то по барабану вместе с ее основной профессией
" Я из рода древних Эзров, полюбив, мы умираем."
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Gerard Butler the second trainer to admit giving horses steroids
Newmarket-based Gerard Butler says he gave his horses the substance on the advice of vets
Tuesday, 30 April, 2013 [UPDATED: 03:21]
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A second Newmarket-based trainer has admitted to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that he administered banned anabolic steroids to racehorses on the advice of his veterinarians.
Last week, Godolphin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni had his licence revoked for eight years by the BHA for doping racehorses.
Eleven horses, trained by Zarooni for Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, tested positive for anabolic steroids, including stanozolol - the substance used by disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Emirati Zarooni also admitted administering prohibited substances to four other horses in addition to the 11 that tested positive. Samples were taken from 45 horses at Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks Stables on April 9.
Gerard Butler told yesterday's Independent newspaper that a medication known as Sungate, a treatment for injured joints that contains stanozolol, had been given to several horses at his stables in Newmarket.
He said his vets had recommended Sungate and that he was told it may have been prescribed to as many as 100 racehorses trained in the town.
"I have been very uncomfortable over the past few days, hearing and reading about the Zarooni case," Butler told the paper.
"I feel people need to know about what has happened in my yard. I know I'm obliged to satisfy myself that each and every treatment is within the rules, and I failed to do so in this case.
"But I am certain that this medication has been misunderstood by many others. And I just hope that the BHA is being suitably rigorous in establishing whether that is indeed the case."
The BHA said it was investigating a number of positive samples obtained from horses at Butler's yard, following a testing-in-training visit on February 20.
"While conscious of the need not to prejudice the outcome of the current inquiry, the investigation has established that the source of the positive samples was a veterinary product, licensed in the EU and legally imported for use by a veterinary practice, the initial administration of which was recommended by a vet," the BHA said.
"One of the objectives of this investigation is to clarify the extent to which this product has been distributed and administered to horses in training."
BHA figures reveal a picture of isolated incidents of doping racehorses in Britain. In 2011, 7,619 samples were analysed from nearly 95,000 raceday runners and from those, 13 horses tested positive for a prohibited substance. None of the 13 revealed a performance-enhancing drug
Джерард Батлер второго тренера признать давая лошади стероидов
Ньюмаркет основе Джерард Батлер говорит, что он дал его лошади вещества по совету ветеринаров
Rising Son
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Вторая Ньюмаркет основе тренер признался Британские скачки органом (ВНА), что он запретил вводить анаболические стероиды для скаковых лошадей по совету своего ветеринара.
На прошлой неделе тренер Годольфин Махмуд аль-Zarooni были свои лицензии отменены в течение восьми лет ВНА на допинг скаковых лошадей.
Одиннадцать лошадей, обученных для Zarooni Дубаи Шейх Мохаммед бин Рашид аль-Мактум, дали положительный результат на анаболические стероиды, в том числе станозолол - вещество, используемое на опального олимпийского спринтера Бена Джонсона в 1988 году на Олимпийских играх в Сеуле.
Эмиратах Zarooni также признал введение запрещенных веществ до четырех других лошадей в дополнение к 11, который дал положительный результат. Образцы были взяты из 45 лошадей на конюшне Мултон Годольфин в загонах на 9 апреля.
Джерард Батлер рассказал Независимой газете, что вчерашнее лекарство известное как Sungate, для лечения суставов, которые ранены содержит станозолол, было дано несколько лошадей в его конюшне в Ньюмаркет.
По его словам, ветеринары рекомендовали Sungate и что ему сказали, что, возможно, было предписано целых 100 обученных скаковых лошадей в городе.
"Я был очень неудобным в течение последних нескольких дней, слыша и читая о случае Zarooni," Батлер в интервью газете.
"Я чувствую, что люди должны знать о том, что произошло в моем дворе. Я знаю, что обязан удовлетворить себя, что каждый лечение в рамках правил, и я не в состоянии сделать это в данном случае.
"Но я уверен, что этот препарат, была неправильно понята многими другими. И я надеюсь, что в настоящее время ВНА достаточно тщательной в установлении, является ли это на самом деле."
ВНА сказал, что расследование ряда позитивных образцов, полученных из лошадей на дворе Батлера, после тестирования в обучении визитом 20 февраля.
"В то время осознает необходимость не наносить ущерба итогах текущего следствие, расследование установило, что источником положительных проб было ветеринарных продуктов, лицензированных в ЕС и законно ввозимые для использования ветеринарной практике, первоначальное введение который был рекомендован на ветеринара, "ВНА сказал.
"Одна из целей данного исследования является выяснение, в какой степени этот продукт был распространен и вводили лошадей в обучении."
ВНА цифры показывают картину отдельные случаи допинга скаковых лошадей в Великобритании. В 2011, 7619 Образцы анализировали из почти 95 000 бегунов Raceday и от тех, 13 лошадей дали положительный результат на запрещенное вещество. Ни один из 13 не выявила повышающих работоспособность наркотиков
http://www.scmp.com/sport/racing/articl ... s-steroids
Newmarket-based Gerard Butler says he gave his horses the substance on the advice of vets
Tuesday, 30 April, 2013 [UPDATED: 03:21]
Reuters in London
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A second Newmarket-based trainer has admitted to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that he administered banned anabolic steroids to racehorses on the advice of his veterinarians.
Last week, Godolphin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni had his licence revoked for eight years by the BHA for doping racehorses.
Eleven horses, trained by Zarooni for Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, tested positive for anabolic steroids, including stanozolol - the substance used by disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Emirati Zarooni also admitted administering prohibited substances to four other horses in addition to the 11 that tested positive. Samples were taken from 45 horses at Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks Stables on April 9.
Gerard Butler told yesterday's Independent newspaper that a medication known as Sungate, a treatment for injured joints that contains stanozolol, had been given to several horses at his stables in Newmarket.
He said his vets had recommended Sungate and that he was told it may have been prescribed to as many as 100 racehorses trained in the town.
"I have been very uncomfortable over the past few days, hearing and reading about the Zarooni case," Butler told the paper.
"I feel people need to know about what has happened in my yard. I know I'm obliged to satisfy myself that each and every treatment is within the rules, and I failed to do so in this case.
"But I am certain that this medication has been misunderstood by many others. And I just hope that the BHA is being suitably rigorous in establishing whether that is indeed the case."
The BHA said it was investigating a number of positive samples obtained from horses at Butler's yard, following a testing-in-training visit on February 20.
"While conscious of the need not to prejudice the outcome of the current inquiry, the investigation has established that the source of the positive samples was a veterinary product, licensed in the EU and legally imported for use by a veterinary practice, the initial administration of which was recommended by a vet," the BHA said.
"One of the objectives of this investigation is to clarify the extent to which this product has been distributed and administered to horses in training."
BHA figures reveal a picture of isolated incidents of doping racehorses in Britain. In 2011, 7,619 samples were analysed from nearly 95,000 raceday runners and from those, 13 horses tested positive for a prohibited substance. None of the 13 revealed a performance-enhancing drug
Джерард Батлер второго тренера признать давая лошади стероидов
Ньюмаркет основе Джерард Батлер говорит, что он дал его лошади вещества по совету ветеринаров
Rising Son
Родился в Гонконг родителей, Нафанаил Вэй является самым молодым членом Палаты лордов Великобритании. Он говорит с Кейт Уайтхеда о своей «китайской мечты».
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Вторая Ньюмаркет основе тренер признался Британские скачки органом (ВНА), что он запретил вводить анаболические стероиды для скаковых лошадей по совету своего ветеринара.
На прошлой неделе тренер Годольфин Махмуд аль-Zarooni были свои лицензии отменены в течение восьми лет ВНА на допинг скаковых лошадей.
Одиннадцать лошадей, обученных для Zarooni Дубаи Шейх Мохаммед бин Рашид аль-Мактум, дали положительный результат на анаболические стероиды, в том числе станозолол - вещество, используемое на опального олимпийского спринтера Бена Джонсона в 1988 году на Олимпийских играх в Сеуле.
Эмиратах Zarooni также признал введение запрещенных веществ до четырех других лошадей в дополнение к 11, который дал положительный результат. Образцы были взяты из 45 лошадей на конюшне Мултон Годольфин в загонах на 9 апреля.
Джерард Батлер рассказал Независимой газете, что вчерашнее лекарство известное как Sungate, для лечения суставов, которые ранены содержит станозолол, было дано несколько лошадей в его конюшне в Ньюмаркет.
По его словам, ветеринары рекомендовали Sungate и что ему сказали, что, возможно, было предписано целых 100 обученных скаковых лошадей в городе.
"Я был очень неудобным в течение последних нескольких дней, слыша и читая о случае Zarooni," Батлер в интервью газете.
"Я чувствую, что люди должны знать о том, что произошло в моем дворе. Я знаю, что обязан удовлетворить себя, что каждый лечение в рамках правил, и я не в состоянии сделать это в данном случае.
"Но я уверен, что этот препарат, была неправильно понята многими другими. И я надеюсь, что в настоящее время ВНА достаточно тщательной в установлении, является ли это на самом деле."
ВНА сказал, что расследование ряда позитивных образцов, полученных из лошадей на дворе Батлера, после тестирования в обучении визитом 20 февраля.
"В то время осознает необходимость не наносить ущерба итогах текущего следствие, расследование установило, что источником положительных проб было ветеринарных продуктов, лицензированных в ЕС и законно ввозимые для использования ветеринарной практике, первоначальное введение который был рекомендован на ветеринара, "ВНА сказал.
"Одна из целей данного исследования является выяснение, в какой степени этот продукт был распространен и вводили лошадей в обучении."
ВНА цифры показывают картину отдельные случаи допинга скаковых лошадей в Великобритании. В 2011, 7619 Образцы анализировали из почти 95 000 бегунов Raceday и от тех, 13 лошадей дали положительный результат на запрещенное вещество. Ни один из 13 не выявила повышающих работоспособность наркотиков
http://www.scmp.com/sport/racing/articl ... s-steroids
Снимать шлюх и считать себя плейбоем - все равно что принимать ванну, и считать себя водолазом-глубоководником.



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Re: СМИ о Джерарде Батлере. Том 2
Это не про нашего Батлера-это про однофамильца. 

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ойй )) то то я читаю и ниче не понимаю ,шо за лошадь и причем тута китай и стеройды ))kapelka писал(а):Это не про нашего Батлера-это про однофамильца.


Снимать шлюх и считать себя плейбоем - все равно что принимать ванну, и считать себя водолазом-глубоководником.



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Re: СМИ о Джерарде Батлере. Том 2
The Times - London - Apr. 11, 2013
Gerard Butler: Hollywood’s action pin-up talks tough
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film ... 736182.ece

Hollywood's action pin-up (from Paisley) talks tough
Gerard Butler is so hard that breaking his neck doesn't bother him. Just don't expect him to shake your hand without using sanitiser, says Stefanie Marsh.
A movie star hellraiser, flirt and action hero, for Gerard Butler, normal is not enough — he wants to operate at ten
Gerrrrarrrrrrd Butler as he is known in his adoptive country (America) where he speaks with a musterious accent - two parts Northen Irish, one part Bronx (mysterious because Gerrarrrrd, nee Gerard, is actually from Paisley. In Scotland) - is, he says, an action man. Sorry, change that to action guy, for Gerrarrrd seems to have let fade from his vocabulary any manner of speech that could even loosely be described as British. He's embraced the States with both muscular arms - he is noy the type of expat actor to whimper on in interviews about Marmite shortages or how much he misses Scottish rain. It's all about the American vernacular now - "movies" not "films"; "elevators", never "lifts"; "idearrs" rather than "ideas". "I'm an action guy," he says, "and I don't mean just 'I'm an actor'. I mean I'm a man," - and how many men, or indeed guys, can describe themselves thus in these woeful metrosexual times? - - "of action."
This man of action, 43, has perfect (American) teeth, a golden glow (thank you home-from-home, Los Angeles) and a body honed just so over years and years in the gym, learning kung fu, playing volleyball or taking qi gong classes - whatever it takes to pump that bod up to scratch. He seems to have struggled with alcohol but has given that up, as well as all the drugs he seems to have liked taking during his salad days. Two months ago, however, he started smoking again after five years of abstinence. This is why our conversation begins not in the soulless gloom of a hotel room, but on its soulless balcony, where we puff on cigarettes proffered from Butler's box of Marlboro reds while we go through the necessary preliminaries.
Childhood: raised in Paisley, lower middle class, one of three kids; father disappeared from his life when he was 18 months old; they were reunited 15 years later and became close, but his father died from cancer when Butler was 22. Teens: his world changed when Grease came out, after which he got his mum to do his hair like John Travolta's, racked up enough sponsorship to do a residential course at the Scottish Youth Theatre; became a self-described "hell raiser". Neuroses: Butler suspects he may have a touch of OCD but it sounds like plain old professionalism to me.
By the sound of it, he used to be quite down on himself: "I've spent too many years saying to myself, 'you're a dick', 'you're selfish', 'you're this', 'you're that'." But he seems to have cheered up since. Is there anything he doesn't want to talk about in this interview? "I don't want to talk about my sheep shagging days." "The sheep or the shagging?" "Put the sheep in, just don't say I shagged them." I think this may be an example of Butler's rough and tumble humours. In Hollywood, he is affectionately referred to as a "notorious rascal". Interpret that as you will. He's full of "hilarious" stories about "the dumb things I do and yet, if you think about them you go, 'That's literally someone acting like they're mentally handicapped'." Recently, he found himself on the way to meetings wearing mismatching shoes. "I'm not always quite there."
Last week, he tweeted a picture of himself lifting weights with a small child dangling off either end of his already heavily stacked barbell, but Butler is no Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dolph Lundgren. Some have described him as "a poor man's Russell Crowe" but I think that description may be out of date. Notwithstanding the dreadful comedy P.S. I Love You, I see Butler ascending to real action-hero greatness: a modern version of Mel Gibson, if you will, in Gibson's late glory/Lethal Weapon years, but without the eight children. Butler has a girlfriend now (the Romanian model Madalina Ghenea - it's been going on for 11 months) but remains notoriously unhitched and sprog-free.
Incidentally, Gibson seems to be Butler's new BFF; they were papped hanging out in Los Angeles together, both wearing jeans, a top bromance indicator. "Just one of the guys" is the vibe Butler gives off when he's hanging with his equally famous bachelor friends: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Bradley Cooper, George Clooney. One assumes they do "guy things" together, like talk about chicks and ice hockey. But, it transpires, n this particular stratosphere, the thing that preys most on the single man's mind is feelings. "You've really got to go and talk about this sh*** that's going on in your life and sometimes hear the s*** that is going on in other people's lives," he says on the subject of the amount of therapy everyone in the profession ends up having. "I actually think it's something that everybody should do. We focus on our work, we focus on gratification but what we don't do is take the time to clean. To clean house. To discover more about who we are, what's going on with us."
I think Gibson must be secretly jealous of Butler these days; Butler has just infiltrated the White House and singlehandedly saved the life of the President and, by extension, the United States and probably the world, from detonation at the hands of a North Korean terrorist splinter group. It must also be maddening for Butler's rivals that, two weeks ago, news broke that North Korea was toying with its missiles again. Nothing the competition likes less than an actin fil, that ticks the "topical" box.
The new film - apologies, movie - is called Olympus Has Fallen. Briefly, Butler plays Mike Banning, a disgraced secret service agent in the Prez's bad books for having failed to save the First Lady in a car crash, with the result that we see him dangling about Washington DC at a loose end, possibly unemployed, sitting crestfallen in bars, watching on TV as the President gets on with life without him. He's the wise, blue-collar outsider, the guy who - when push comes to shove and a nasty North Korean man cuts the secretary of state's throat on a live feed to the Pentagon - intuitively knows more about getting under the skin of otherwise unruffable leaders of North Korean terrorist factions than even the head of the army (whose guns-blazing approach unfortunately annihilates most of the home team). Butler, by contrast, employs excellent hand-to-hand combat skills with one-liners guaranteed to destabilise the enemy. My favourite: Butler (on his mobile to the leader of the terrorist group): "Let's play a game of f*** off. You go first." (Slams down phone. Terrorist leader looks annoyed).
Depending on who you talk to, the film is either brilliantly entertaining or ridiculously fanciful; if you read The Atlantic, you are likely to regard it as falsely patriotic and inaccurate. The particularly faint of heart seem to think the scene where the Washington Monument explodes as too Twin Towers-y. Personally, I loved it. Does Butler not feel (some) Americans have had a sense of humour failure where this film is concerned? You'd have to be exceptionally humourless not to love the scene where our hero crushes the brains of a North Korean White House infiltrator with a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln. But Butler takes such criticism extremely seriously and responds with a patriot's respect and dignity: "Yes it's America but it's America going wrong. It's saying this is the day we failed. The President gets shot or Oklahoma happens. S*** happens. It's not just that somebody sprains their ankle. Things go wrong. Badly. And we wanted to examine a day where it really went wrong." Butler worried the armed forces would hate it, "because, at the end of the day, they're pretty much all killed (in the film) but I went to Camp Pendleton, the main Marine base, and screened it to the Marines and they loved it".
Away from Butler the actor/producer and back to Butler the man, who would rather everyone just call him "Jerry", the word "Gerard" reminding him too much of "my mum when I was in trouble". Jerry the boy did the dusting, the vacuum cleaning, the ironing, the peeling of the potatoes, "which is funny because now I don't do any housework whatsoever". Possibly the worst instance of being in trouble with his mother was the day he was sacked, a week into his first job as a solicitor. London beckoned. Time passed in a hedonistic whirl. Butler partied but also worked like fury, climbing the greasy pole. The people who work with him say he's insanely driven.
He's not quite lost the party boy rep. When he checked into the Betty Ford Centre last year for three weeks to shake an addiction to prescription drugs, the implication was that here was a man who had overdone it on all fronts, wasn't it? Couldn't be further from the truth: "Listen. I'm not an angel but there's no one in this world I think that works harder than me." Still, rumours persist. Let's scotch them now. Him and Jennifer Aniston? Not true. Er, Brandi Glanville? "Who is Brandi Glanville?" Butler asked live on radio recently when he was quizzed about their "romance" (unless you watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, you won't have heard of her either). "Gerard Butler Admits He Slept With Brandi Glanville, But Forgot Her Name" was US Weekly's headline. He's said that when he arrived in Los Angeles, "something very compulsive and dark and lusty and pleasurable and damaging took over". Someone asked him recently whether he was up for the part of Christian Grey. Butler replied he didn't need a part in Fifty Shades of Grey because he could act the entire plot out in real life. There's a hint of a slag about him. Then again, only last week he was pictured walking around Rome with his girlfriend.
Post-cigarette, back from the balcony, in the gloomy hotel room, a miniature bottle of anti-bacterial hand sanitiser appears in Butler's hand., When he was a non-smoker, he explains: "I really noticed the smell of people when they smoke and it especially comes from your fingers." For good measure he rubs some of the gloop all over his mouth "because the smoke goes there as well. Also it's really healthy". Butler is a gregarious type who doesn't like to be rude. "I can shake up to 500 hands in one night and those people - some of them are clean, some of them are dirty." Indeed.
We move on to the subject of the Betty Ford Centre. He checked in because he was taking too many anti-inflammatories and painkillers. He was on "a downward spiral of injuries". "It's true I do pick up a lot of injuries in movies. Car crash. Overtraining. I've taken hits. I've pulled muscles. I just broke two bones in my neck in this movie, even though that's actually one of the things what doesn't bother me. What had happened was that my back and hone out in Coriolanus, in the fight scene. I felt for four months like somebody was sticking a spear in my back."
Of course, there was another dimension. "It wasn't even that I was depressed. Going from feeling down to just feeling normal is not good enough for me anymore. I want to know while in these years of my life, how do I operate on ten?"
I suggest it's by doing the following and cutting out romcoms and doing only action movies. The CV looks good. Coming up: Thunder Run, Dynamo, Hunter Killer. There's no love interest in Olympus Has Fallen. I think that people prefer to see Butler kick butt.
Gerard Butler: Hollywood’s action pin-up talks tough
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Hollywood's action pin-up (from Paisley) talks tough
Gerard Butler is so hard that breaking his neck doesn't bother him. Just don't expect him to shake your hand without using sanitiser, says Stefanie Marsh.
A movie star hellraiser, flirt and action hero, for Gerard Butler, normal is not enough — he wants to operate at ten
Gerrrrarrrrrrd Butler as he is known in his adoptive country (America) where he speaks with a musterious accent - two parts Northen Irish, one part Bronx (mysterious because Gerrarrrrd, nee Gerard, is actually from Paisley. In Scotland) - is, he says, an action man. Sorry, change that to action guy, for Gerrarrrd seems to have let fade from his vocabulary any manner of speech that could even loosely be described as British. He's embraced the States with both muscular arms - he is noy the type of expat actor to whimper on in interviews about Marmite shortages or how much he misses Scottish rain. It's all about the American vernacular now - "movies" not "films"; "elevators", never "lifts"; "idearrs" rather than "ideas". "I'm an action guy," he says, "and I don't mean just 'I'm an actor'. I mean I'm a man," - and how many men, or indeed guys, can describe themselves thus in these woeful metrosexual times? - - "of action."
This man of action, 43, has perfect (American) teeth, a golden glow (thank you home-from-home, Los Angeles) and a body honed just so over years and years in the gym, learning kung fu, playing volleyball or taking qi gong classes - whatever it takes to pump that bod up to scratch. He seems to have struggled with alcohol but has given that up, as well as all the drugs he seems to have liked taking during his salad days. Two months ago, however, he started smoking again after five years of abstinence. This is why our conversation begins not in the soulless gloom of a hotel room, but on its soulless balcony, where we puff on cigarettes proffered from Butler's box of Marlboro reds while we go through the necessary preliminaries.
Childhood: raised in Paisley, lower middle class, one of three kids; father disappeared from his life when he was 18 months old; they were reunited 15 years later and became close, but his father died from cancer when Butler was 22. Teens: his world changed when Grease came out, after which he got his mum to do his hair like John Travolta's, racked up enough sponsorship to do a residential course at the Scottish Youth Theatre; became a self-described "hell raiser". Neuroses: Butler suspects he may have a touch of OCD but it sounds like plain old professionalism to me.
By the sound of it, he used to be quite down on himself: "I've spent too many years saying to myself, 'you're a dick', 'you're selfish', 'you're this', 'you're that'." But he seems to have cheered up since. Is there anything he doesn't want to talk about in this interview? "I don't want to talk about my sheep shagging days." "The sheep or the shagging?" "Put the sheep in, just don't say I shagged them." I think this may be an example of Butler's rough and tumble humours. In Hollywood, he is affectionately referred to as a "notorious rascal". Interpret that as you will. He's full of "hilarious" stories about "the dumb things I do and yet, if you think about them you go, 'That's literally someone acting like they're mentally handicapped'." Recently, he found himself on the way to meetings wearing mismatching shoes. "I'm not always quite there."
Last week, he tweeted a picture of himself lifting weights with a small child dangling off either end of his already heavily stacked barbell, but Butler is no Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dolph Lundgren. Some have described him as "a poor man's Russell Crowe" but I think that description may be out of date. Notwithstanding the dreadful comedy P.S. I Love You, I see Butler ascending to real action-hero greatness: a modern version of Mel Gibson, if you will, in Gibson's late glory/Lethal Weapon years, but without the eight children. Butler has a girlfriend now (the Romanian model Madalina Ghenea - it's been going on for 11 months) but remains notoriously unhitched and sprog-free.
Incidentally, Gibson seems to be Butler's new BFF; they were papped hanging out in Los Angeles together, both wearing jeans, a top bromance indicator. "Just one of the guys" is the vibe Butler gives off when he's hanging with his equally famous bachelor friends: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Bradley Cooper, George Clooney. One assumes they do "guy things" together, like talk about chicks and ice hockey. But, it transpires, n this particular stratosphere, the thing that preys most on the single man's mind is feelings. "You've really got to go and talk about this sh*** that's going on in your life and sometimes hear the s*** that is going on in other people's lives," he says on the subject of the amount of therapy everyone in the profession ends up having. "I actually think it's something that everybody should do. We focus on our work, we focus on gratification but what we don't do is take the time to clean. To clean house. To discover more about who we are, what's going on with us."
I think Gibson must be secretly jealous of Butler these days; Butler has just infiltrated the White House and singlehandedly saved the life of the President and, by extension, the United States and probably the world, from detonation at the hands of a North Korean terrorist splinter group. It must also be maddening for Butler's rivals that, two weeks ago, news broke that North Korea was toying with its missiles again. Nothing the competition likes less than an actin fil, that ticks the "topical" box.
The new film - apologies, movie - is called Olympus Has Fallen. Briefly, Butler plays Mike Banning, a disgraced secret service agent in the Prez's bad books for having failed to save the First Lady in a car crash, with the result that we see him dangling about Washington DC at a loose end, possibly unemployed, sitting crestfallen in bars, watching on TV as the President gets on with life without him. He's the wise, blue-collar outsider, the guy who - when push comes to shove and a nasty North Korean man cuts the secretary of state's throat on a live feed to the Pentagon - intuitively knows more about getting under the skin of otherwise unruffable leaders of North Korean terrorist factions than even the head of the army (whose guns-blazing approach unfortunately annihilates most of the home team). Butler, by contrast, employs excellent hand-to-hand combat skills with one-liners guaranteed to destabilise the enemy. My favourite: Butler (on his mobile to the leader of the terrorist group): "Let's play a game of f*** off. You go first." (Slams down phone. Terrorist leader looks annoyed).
Depending on who you talk to, the film is either brilliantly entertaining or ridiculously fanciful; if you read The Atlantic, you are likely to regard it as falsely patriotic and inaccurate. The particularly faint of heart seem to think the scene where the Washington Monument explodes as too Twin Towers-y. Personally, I loved it. Does Butler not feel (some) Americans have had a sense of humour failure where this film is concerned? You'd have to be exceptionally humourless not to love the scene where our hero crushes the brains of a North Korean White House infiltrator with a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln. But Butler takes such criticism extremely seriously and responds with a patriot's respect and dignity: "Yes it's America but it's America going wrong. It's saying this is the day we failed. The President gets shot or Oklahoma happens. S*** happens. It's not just that somebody sprains their ankle. Things go wrong. Badly. And we wanted to examine a day where it really went wrong." Butler worried the armed forces would hate it, "because, at the end of the day, they're pretty much all killed (in the film) but I went to Camp Pendleton, the main Marine base, and screened it to the Marines and they loved it".
Away from Butler the actor/producer and back to Butler the man, who would rather everyone just call him "Jerry", the word "Gerard" reminding him too much of "my mum when I was in trouble". Jerry the boy did the dusting, the vacuum cleaning, the ironing, the peeling of the potatoes, "which is funny because now I don't do any housework whatsoever". Possibly the worst instance of being in trouble with his mother was the day he was sacked, a week into his first job as a solicitor. London beckoned. Time passed in a hedonistic whirl. Butler partied but also worked like fury, climbing the greasy pole. The people who work with him say he's insanely driven.
He's not quite lost the party boy rep. When he checked into the Betty Ford Centre last year for three weeks to shake an addiction to prescription drugs, the implication was that here was a man who had overdone it on all fronts, wasn't it? Couldn't be further from the truth: "Listen. I'm not an angel but there's no one in this world I think that works harder than me." Still, rumours persist. Let's scotch them now. Him and Jennifer Aniston? Not true. Er, Brandi Glanville? "Who is Brandi Glanville?" Butler asked live on radio recently when he was quizzed about their "romance" (unless you watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, you won't have heard of her either). "Gerard Butler Admits He Slept With Brandi Glanville, But Forgot Her Name" was US Weekly's headline. He's said that when he arrived in Los Angeles, "something very compulsive and dark and lusty and pleasurable and damaging took over". Someone asked him recently whether he was up for the part of Christian Grey. Butler replied he didn't need a part in Fifty Shades of Grey because he could act the entire plot out in real life. There's a hint of a slag about him. Then again, only last week he was pictured walking around Rome with his girlfriend.
Post-cigarette, back from the balcony, in the gloomy hotel room, a miniature bottle of anti-bacterial hand sanitiser appears in Butler's hand., When he was a non-smoker, he explains: "I really noticed the smell of people when they smoke and it especially comes from your fingers." For good measure he rubs some of the gloop all over his mouth "because the smoke goes there as well. Also it's really healthy". Butler is a gregarious type who doesn't like to be rude. "I can shake up to 500 hands in one night and those people - some of them are clean, some of them are dirty." Indeed.
We move on to the subject of the Betty Ford Centre. He checked in because he was taking too many anti-inflammatories and painkillers. He was on "a downward spiral of injuries". "It's true I do pick up a lot of injuries in movies. Car crash. Overtraining. I've taken hits. I've pulled muscles. I just broke two bones in my neck in this movie, even though that's actually one of the things what doesn't bother me. What had happened was that my back and hone out in Coriolanus, in the fight scene. I felt for four months like somebody was sticking a spear in my back."
Of course, there was another dimension. "It wasn't even that I was depressed. Going from feeling down to just feeling normal is not good enough for me anymore. I want to know while in these years of my life, how do I operate on ten?"
I suggest it's by doing the following and cutting out romcoms and doing only action movies. The CV looks good. Coming up: Thunder Run, Dynamo, Hunter Killer. There's no love interest in Olympus Has Fallen. I think that people prefer to see Butler kick butt.
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Re: СМИ о Джерарде Батлере. Том 2
Завтра буду в Лондоне, обязательно куплю! спасибо!
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Джерард Батлер: «Я был очарован с Аргентиной"
Актер гастролировал по стране «инкогнито»
Джерард Батлер, любитель в Аргентине.
Находится в туре. Приступили к бесконечным мировое турне, продвигая свой последний фильм: нападение на Белый дом. На этот раз, похоже, как актер и продюсер. Его сопровождает его подруга, модель и актриса Madalina Ghenea румынский, 24 лет. "Брак не является приоритетом для нас, но мы рассматриваем, имеющим детей", говорит Джерард Батлер (43). Он знает, что уже стал одним из самых востребованных актеров в Голливуде, и одним из ведущих людей данный момент, однако предназначена для обычного парня. Когда мы представляем себя как журналисты Hello! Аргентина, вспоминает недавнюю поездку в Аргентину. "Я работал под прикрытием в качестве туриста", настаивает он. Говорит Патагонии гастролировал, посетили водопад Игуасу и пришли к ледник Перито Морено.
-Жерар, какие воспоминания у вас остались о ваших посещениях страны?
- Мне очень понравилось! Я был на Кубе и решили в последнюю минуту, чтобы пойти где-то в другом месте, поэтому мы договорились с нашим турагентом, и в шесть часов был на рейс в Буэнос-Айресе. Это было удивительно, мне очень понравился город, люди не могли поверить, что европейское чувство. Я был очарован с архитектурой и атмосферой места. Я также встретил удивительных людей, нам было весело. Тогда мы пошли, чтобы увидеть ледник Перито Морено в Патагонии. В другой поездке я также встретился Водопады Игуасу, это была моя мечта, так как я видел миссию, и я сказал: "Я должен пойти туда."
-Вы работали в очень разных фильма: комедии, романтические фильмы, действие. Какой ваш любимый жанр?
"Я думаю, что мои любимые боевиках или триллерах. Я остановился немного с этим типом фильмов и чуть не забыл, как это удовольствие принимать участие на разных уровнях процесса: адреналина, тестостерона, взрывы, выстрелы ...
-В вашем последнем фильме, атака на Белый дом, работал с великими актерами, такие как Морган Фриман, Аарон Экхарт и Мелисса Лео. Каким был этот процесс?
Вы начинаете фильм, когда вы не одни, и никто другой. Иногда ты сомневаешься, "что, если никто не хочет работать на нем?». И в этом случае я также был продюсером, так что давление было еще больше. Затем, внезапно, появился Аарон Экхарт, Морган Фриман, Мелисса Лео. Мы закончили работать с двумя победителями Оскар и двух кандидатов. Это было очень приятно работать с ними, они фантастические. Morgan весел, он требует и создает энергию на съемочной площадке, которая генерирует все работы в полном объеме и дать свои лучшие. Все были в восторге, потому что Бог был на съемочной площадке ..
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Re: СМИ о Джерарде Батлере. Том 2
Вероничка, спасибо.
ОКеечка, спасибо за ссыль на интервью в Таймс. Интересные штрихи добавились к портрету.
цитата из этого интервью- "Иногда довольно страшно, потому что некоторые из моих лучших фильмов не очень хорошо, а иногда и меньше хороших фильмов снова превосходный. Как продюсер, я гораздо больше делают. У меня есть кредиторы приблизились. Я также просил директоров, у меня был голос в кастинге, и я был частично ответственен за маркетинг. Я убедился, что там было двести специальное превью и позволило всем было чирикать об этом. Мне нравится фильм так хорошо. Если у вас есть плохое кино в руках, давая ему дорогу к выпуску увидеть тот день, и показывать объявления только продолжаться ".dtheyz писал(а):http://www.veronicamagazine.nl/entertai ... ard-butler
ОКеечка, спасибо за ссыль на интервью в Таймс. Интересные штрихи добавились к портрету.