{"id":14769,"date":"2025-08-21T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14769\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:42:08","slug":"austin-butler-credits-tom-hardy-and-laura-dern-for-helping-him-pull-away-from-method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14769\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler Credits Tom Hardy and Laura Dern for Helping Him Pull Away From Method Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Austin Butler<\/a> continues to take on darker roles, he\u2019s getting advice from some A-listers who are helping him see he can \u201ccome out the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a new Men\u2019s Health cover story to promote his upcoming thriller Caught Stealing<\/a>, directed by Darren Aronofsky<\/a>, Butler<\/a> opens up about what he\u2019s learned from other actors that\u2019s helped him to pull away from method acting. Notably, after the actor finished filming 2022\u2019s Elvis, he was \u201crushed to the hospital\u201d due to his body \u201cshutting down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a long time, I felt that it had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken,\u201d Butler said. \u201cRather than just putting parts of yourself away and trying to pretend that they don\u2019t exist, it\u2019s like going into the gross bits of yourself \u2014 going into the bits that you don\u2019t want to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Austin Butler continues to take on darker roles, he\u2019s getting advice from some A-listers who are helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1241,1242,434,1243,18,117,1237,1239,19,17,327,337,5,1240,1238,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-14769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-music","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}