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Austin Butler is crediting actors like Tom Hardy and Laura Dern for pulling him away from method acting. 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.
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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.
00:30He continued, 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 film
01:00Enemies alongside Jeremy Allen White, he turned to working out and taking a cold shower, both of which
01:06help him fall asleep easier. Butler added, he also needs to step outside and get some sun.
01:11I'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 as
01:25well. 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. She's helping
01:35me more and more to see that you can come out the other side, and maybe bits of you have healed
01:39and synthesized and metabolized. It can be therapeutic in a way. For more on this story, head to
01:44THR.com and for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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