"So, So Talented!" Austin Butler Gushes over Zoë Kravitz

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Stars of the new film 'Caught Stealing' Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz were in London for the UK Gala Screening where Austin heaped praise on his co-star and onscreen love interest Zoë. The Oscar-nominee also discussed drunken nights, birthday celebrations and 90s nostalgia.     His interview is interrupted by director Darren Aronofsky who wants to discuss his other co-star whom he calls the "Daniel Day Lewis of cats."    'Caught Stealing' is out in UK & Irish cinemas on Friday 29th August. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Sorry.

00:01That's a bit extreme.

00:02I know exactly.

00:03That's a bit much.

00:04Yeah, yeah.

00:05Are you that guy?

00:06Yeah, yeah, at a certain point.

00:07You're nodding.

00:08Yes, at a certain point, you are.

00:11Hello, sir.

00:12Thank you so much for your time.

00:13I appreciate you.

00:14Absolutely.

00:15Hey, happy birthday for the other day.

00:17You're a fellow 90s kid.

00:18Yeah, yeah.

00:19You are as well?

00:20Birthday last month, too.

00:2134.

00:22Oh, congratulations.

00:2334.

00:24We're the same age.

00:25Happy birthday.

00:26Do we wear our 90s kid badge with pride?

00:27Did it feel wonderful to step back in time to this familiar world with New York?

00:32Was it familiar to you at all?

00:33Yeah, man.

00:34I mean, the thing with it, for me, I was getting flashbacks of movies that I saw when I was

00:40that age, you know, like watching Home Alone and seeing the streets of New York.

00:46So I had a nostalgia getting to actually film there, for sure.

00:50I loved seeing the behind the scenes footage of you and Zoey with your 90s handheld cams

00:55and stuff on sets.

00:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57My favorite one being when, you know, the scene where Hank is dancing on the ball table.

00:59Yeah, yeah.

01:00Have you ever had a comparable minute at a party where you're like the legend?

01:04Everyone's cheering you.

01:05You're doing a dance move.

01:06I don't think so.

01:07I don't think.

01:08I mean, maybe.

01:09But I probably don't remember those moments.

01:12You know, when you're that far gone, I probably don't remember.

01:14Oh, everything happens.

01:15Yeah, yeah.

01:16Are you that guy?

01:17No, let's say yes.

01:18Yeah, yeah.

01:19At a certain point, you're nodding.

01:20Yes, at a certain point, you are.

01:21I'm a legend.

01:22Yeah, yeah.

01:23Are you going to find out?

01:24I just called the Tonic the Daniel Day-Lewis of Cats.

01:28Is that too much?

01:29Sorry.

01:30That's a bit extreme.

01:31I know.

01:32That's a bit much.

01:33You were just holding a microphone?

01:35Sorry.

01:36Finally, for me, how great is this person next to you, Zoey?

01:39She's fantastic.

01:40She's so talented, man.

01:41She's so, so talented.

01:42What did you learn about during choosing?

01:44What I learned about her, that she's really funny.

01:47I knew she was a great director because of Blink twice, but she's a really great writer.

01:53The way she would restructure scenes and the ideas that she had were amazing.

01:57Super.

01:58Thank you so much for your time.

01:59Appreciate it, man.

02:00Cheers.

02:01See you next time.

02:02Nice to see you.

02:03Hey, nice to see you.

02:04I bet you're a man who has some good stories from New York in the 1990s.

02:08However, I'll make you tell them.

02:09Yeah, okay.

02:10Good idea.

02:11What I do want to know is what was so special about that place and that time, and what did you

02:14try and encapsulate from that into the film?

02:17No insult to London, but the 90s in New York was peak humanity.

02:22It was a great place to be alive.

02:25And I feel the FOMO people have for that era is what will hopefully draw them to come see

02:30the movie in the theaters because it's like Y2K was the biggest threat facing humanity.

02:35Our president was in trouble for an extramarital affair.

02:41The Soviet Union had collapsed.

02:43There was real no enemies to New Yorkers except for maybe Boston Red Sox.

02:48It was like a great time to like be alive and the new millennium was coming in and there

02:53was just a lot of hope.

02:54So I feel like if there are time travelers deep in the future at some point, they're going

02:59to go to the 1990s Lower East Side to get a beer.

03:02No one's ever answered that for a time machine question, have they?

03:05Yeah.

03:06I know that you and Austin met on kind of the campaign trail during, you know, his Elvis,

03:10you're the whale time.

03:11What was it about that meeting for you two during that period, which was a bonding experience

03:15for the two of you during the campaign trail?

03:17Well, we only met one time even though Austin was Brendan Fraser's main competition.

03:23I was nervous about Austin, but it worked out really well.

03:28It was, we met that one time, we connected.

03:30I think we might have, I don't know if we traded numbers.

03:33Sure.

03:34But we might have traded numbers and I don't know if we, I guess we did because we stayed

03:38in touch.

03:39I know that you cast, I saw an interview today where he said you just cast her by text.

03:43Easiest casting in the world.

03:45Is that as real as it was?

03:46No, no.

03:47I met with her first.

03:48Okay.

03:49To be fair.

03:50And then she read the script, she liked it.

03:51And then I was like, hey, what's up?

03:53Excuse me.

03:54I'm sorry.

03:55Very good one.

03:56Very good friend.

03:57Welcome back.

03:59Sorry.

04:00I was talking about Zoe very quickly.

04:01Yeah.

04:02In terms of that casting, no brainer in the end once you had her, right?

04:05Like what did she bring to the role for you?

04:06She's, well, I needed a real New York girl, you know?

04:09I needed someone that was no nonsense.

04:11Zoe Kravitz.

04:12Nailed it.

04:13Alright, thank you so much.

04:14Sorry about that.

04:15That's alright, no worries.

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