From cover of the October 2011 issue of LA Confidential, Gerard Butler is smiling widely, as he’s leaning back in an armchair. He has every reason to be happy, of course, even if the kind of fame he’s enjoying does come with certain downsides. With a new movie about to hit the screens and millions of fans all over the world eager to support him in his work, some would say Butler has nothing to be sorry for in his life.
However, he tells the mag, he does find the media exposure a bit irksome. He’s not referring to magazine interviews, but rather to the attention he gets from the paparazzi.
“It’s almost like being successful makes certain people feel like they have the right to be completely invasive and aggressive in your life. That’s what really bothers me,” Gerard says.
“I can’t often go to Starbucks without literally having five different cameras pointing at me. You smile and wave, but really you think, I don’t even want to do this anymore. I just want to go…” the star muses.
Still, it’s then that he recalls why he’s getting this attention and, at the same time, why he’s in the industry. “At the end of the day, I love making movies,” he says.
Speaking of which, Butler says his latest, “Machine Gun Preacher,” was his opportunity of making a film about the life of a man who becomes a hero when he has very little hero-material.
It’s not every day that films of this kind come out.
“I think what made me want to walk around in his shoes was just the man himself. What he’s achieved is so mind-blowing, so unbelievable – this person who just kind of takes on the world, decides to go into Sudan and build an orphanage in the middle of the civil war,” he says.
“He’s definitely not a Mr. Goody Two-Shoes, squeaky-clean hero, so it just felt like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” adds the star.
For more on the interview, as well as a gorgeous photospread with Mr. Butler, see
here.
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