While Austin Butler continues to take on darker roles, he’s getting advice from some A-listers who are helping him see he can “come out the other side.”
In a new Men’s Health cover story to promote his upcoming thriller Caught Stealing, directed by Darren Aronofsky, Butler opens up about what he’s learned from other actors that’s helped him to pull away from method acting. Notably, after the actor finished filming 2022’s Elvis, he was “rushed to the hospital” due to his body “shutting down.”
“For a long time, I felt that it had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken,” Butler said. “Rather than just putting parts of yourself away and trying to pretend that they don’t exist, it’s like going into the gross bits of yourself — going into the bits that you don’t want to…