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
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