00:00Austin Butler is crediting actors like Tom Hardy and Laura Dern for pulling him away from method
00:05acting. In a new men's health cover story to promote his upcoming thriller, Caught Stealing,
00:11directed by Darren Aronofsky, Butler opens up about what he's learned from other actors
00:15that's helped him to pull away from method. Notably, after the actor finished filming 2022's
00:20Elvis, he was, quote, rushed to the hospital due to his body shutting down. For a long time,
00:25I felt that it had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken. He
00:30continued, rather than just putting parts of yourself away and trying to pretend that they
00:34don't exist, it's like going into the gross bits of yourself, going into the bits that you don't
00:38want to look at and finding a way of integrating that into the whole. However, recently he decided
00:43to create more balance in his life. Butler said he observed Tom Hardy, his co-star in 2023's The
00:49Bike Riders, saying after shooting all night, Hardy would go home, put on a weighted vest,
00:54and do 1,000 box jumps. To unwind from his busy schedule during shooting his recent A24 crime
01:00film Enemies alongside Jeremy Allen White, he turned to working out and taking a cold shower,
01:05both of which help him fall asleep easier. Butler added, he also needs to step outside and get some
01:10sun. I'm just trying to find little things like that. Sometimes it's the mundane little things.
01:15White noted, I think Austin is at this point in his life where doing the best work he can is very
01:20important. And I think it always will be, but I think he's searching for some stability in life
01:24as well. After meeting Laura Dern at an event, she helped him to see that when he's exploring the
01:30shadow self in a heavier role, that doesn't mean it has to destroy the rest of his life.
01:34She's helping me more and more to see that you can come out the other side and maybe bits of you
01:39have healed and synthesized and metabolized. It can be therapeutic in a way. For more on this story,
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