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Butler in P.S. I Love You

L'aitante scozzese sarà il marito defunto di Hilary Swank nell'adattamento del libro di Cecelia Ahern

Dopo il reclutamento della due volte premio Oscar Hilary Swank, che sarà la protagonista della trasposizione cinematografica di P.S. I Love You, commovente romanzo di Cecelia Ahern, l'affascinante attore scozzese Gerard Butler (Il fantasma dell'Opera, Timeline - ai confini del tempo, Dear Frankie) è stato chiamato a interpretare l'eroe della vicenda. La storia, per chi non lo sapesse, è quella di Holly, rimasta precocemente vedova e prostrata dal lutto, fino a che non riceve una missiva orchestrata dal marito defunto, che le impone dall'al di là cinquanta piccoli compiti che la indurranno, passo dopo passo, a riprendere il corso della sua vita.

Il film, prodotto da Warner Bros, sarà diretto da Richard LaGravenese. Le riprese dovrebbero partire in autunno, tra New York e l'Irlanda.

gemini2122/9/2006, 23:42
http://spettacoli.tiscali.it/articoli/06/0...row_cinema.html

Lisa Kudrow, dalla tv al grande schermo

L'attrice americana Lisa KudrowLisa Kudrow, la Phoebe di Friends approda sul grande schermo. Dopo Jennifer Aniston che ha debuttato nelle sale italiane con la commedia Ti odio, ti lascio, un'altra frequentatrice del Central Perk, si prepara ad esordire al cinema.
La simpatica attrice americana è una delle protagoniste, insieme a Hilary Swank e Gerard Butler, di P.S. I Love You, il film, tratto da un romanzo di Cecilia Ahern, e diretto dal regista Richard LaGravenese.

La pellicola racconta di Holly, rimasta precocemente vedova e prostrata dal lutto, fino a che non riceve una missiva orchestrata dal marito defunto, che le impone dall'al di là cinquanta piccoli compiti che la indurranno, passo dopo passo, a riprendere il corso della sua vita.
Alla Kudrow è stato affidato il ruolo di una delle migliori amiche della Swank, una donna single e di successo che lavora come press-agent a New York. Jeffrey Dean Morgan invece sarà un cantante irlandese di cui la Swank si innamora durante un viaggio a Dublino. Le riprese del film, prodotto da Warner Bros, dovrebbero partire in autunno, tra New York e l'Irlanda

http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/ar...olo328734.shtml

Kudrow, che amore di amica!

La Phoebe di Friends sul set
Amica in televisione e amica al cinema. Lisa Kudrow, la svampita Phoebe Buffay di "Friends" torna sul set cinematografico nel cast di "P.S. I Love You". Alla pellicola parteciperanno star del calibro di Hilary Swank e Gerard Butler. La Kudrow interpreta una delle migliori amiche della Swank che nel film è una vedova, ancora perdutamente innamorata del marito.

La pellicola, diretta da Richard LaGravenese, è tratta dal romanzo omonimo di Cecilia Ahern. Una serie di lettere lasciate dal marito defunto (che narrano una serie di avventure) danno ancora una ragione di vivere alla moglie.

Oltre a Phoebe in "Friends", Lisa ha recitato altri ruoli televisivi, compreso quello di Ursula, la cameriera antipatica e sorella gemella di Phoebe, in "Innamorati pazzi". E poi ancora "Bob", "Cin Cin", "Coach", "Newhart" e "Flying Blind". Dopo queste esperienze televisive e prima del grande "boom" con "Friends", Lisa ha lavorato con i Transformers, un gruppo di improvvisazione, e coi Groundlings, a cui ha fatto anche da insegnante. L'attrice si è sposata nel 1995 con il pubblicitario Michel Stern e ha un figlio Julian Murray, nato nel 1998.

arielcips23/9/2006, 09:20

....hai capito? Lo paragonano alla vincitrice dell'Oscar...Fusse che t'arifusse la vorta bbbbona?

sabry_aminta25/9/2006, 16:03
una STAR?dicono proprio così?mi sconvolge...ma mi rende anche stra felice!!
è simpatica lisa kudrow,mi fa piacere ci sia anche lei

gemini2112/7/2007, 13:23
I casi sono davvero due, o i giornalisti italiani non capiscono niente, o la Swank (in questi giorni ad Ischia) soffre di crisi improvvise di amnesia (dovute forse alla bretellata? ) ... E' già il secondo articolo che trovo in cui si dice :

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubr...60&sezione=News

Ora spera di fare il bis con un’altra storia che non è proprio nelle sue corde perché unisce il dramma alla commedia, si chiama P.S. I love you con Gerard Butler ( e Katie Bates, che comincerà a girare questo inverno.

http://www.kataweb.it/cinema/detail_artico...dContent=329109

In 'Ps I love you' vivrà una storia d'amore con Gerard Butler, il fascinoso attore di 300. "Non vedo l'ora di fare questa commedia", ha detto la Swank

Vorrei anche far notare che secondo quelli della stampa Ps I love you non è nelle sue corde, mentre secondo il giornale sì...

http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=192136

Un'ideuzza recente, nata subito dopo aver interpretato al fianco di Gerard Butler P.S. I love you, regia di Richard Lagravenese, nelle sale prima di Natale: la storia di una trentenne a cui muore il marito e che per questo cade in depressione. Ma un paio di mesi dopo un postino, dopo aver suonato sicuramente più di due volte, le recapita dieci lettere del compianto consorte, il quale la esorta a reagire alla vita, a non arrendersi, a lottare nonostante lui non ci sia più: «Un film completamente nelle mie corde», precisa la Swank

sabry_aminta12/7/2007, 17:46
mmh...complimenti ai nostri giornalisti che capiscono bene l'inglese
:malol:

arielcips25/9/2007, 14:15

Qui di seguito c'è la breve riflessione di un recensore che -da quel che ho capito - scommette sul successo di cassetta di PS Ilove you...affermando che la Swank ha incarrato perfettamente il regista cui affidare il suo successo...e che se la WB non incasserà oltre 100 milioni di dollari...avrà commesso qualche sbaglio!

HILARY SWANK FILM TO MINT MONEY

Category: P.S. I Love You News
Article Date: September 25, 2007 | Publication: CHUD | Author: Jeremy Smith
Source: CHUD Posted by: admin


I don't know how Hilary Swank got hooked up with Richard LaGravenese, but if she's serious about having a lucrative career beyond those two Best Actress wins, she couldn't have picked a better collaborator. The writer of The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer, The Mirror Has Two Faces and Living Out Loud is an ace at scriptin' for broads; at his best (and I consider those first two titles to be well above-average), he infuses potentially mawkish material with a measure of restraint and intellect. And while it's been a while since he was associated with anything worth discussing, this is the man who wrote The Ref. We like him.

This is why LaGravanese is so fascinating to me: how can a guy capable of something so acerbic evince such a soft touch? Did he get all of the bile out of his system with that one script, or did he just stop caring too much? There is real pain in The Bridges of Madison County and The Horse Whisperer, but there's nothing reminiscent of the rage and satire of Ted Demme's Christmas classic. Nowadays, LaGravenese seems comfortable and well-adjusted; he's a studio guy, and that's alright with him.

But keep The Ref in mind as you watch this absurdly appealing trailer for P.S. I Love You; the man who once played dirty with Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis and Denis Leary has now been tasked with selling an almost feminine Hilary Swank to mainstream moviegoers. Will they buy it? With Gerard Butler playing the deceased husband who teaches her how to live from beyond the grave, does it matter? If this doesn't wind up breaking $100 million, Warner Brothers did something very, very wrong.

P.S. I Love You opens December 21st. Married guys, the only way you'll avoid this one is divorce.

manuphantom26/9/2007, 12:02
ariel ti prego mi fai la traduzione please????

arielcips27/9/2007, 09:57
Manup,ho riassunto in generale il testo...per una traduzione più accurata ti rimando alla buona volontà di chi conosce bene l'inglese...

jiujiu27/9/2007, 13:49



gemini2127/9/2007, 14:04



è bellissima! :malol: :malol:

gemini213/10/2007, 14:59
Gerard e Hilary, amore senza fine

http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/ar...olo381835.shtml

Nel film "P.S. I Love You"

Belli, affermati nel lavoro e amati dagli amici. La vita di Holly e Gerry sembra perfetta. Un giorno però Gerry si ammala e muore il giorno del trentesimo compleanno di Holly. Il marito le lascia dieci messaggi che l'aiuteranno a continuare a vivere. I protagonisti del film "P.S. I Love You", negli Usa esce il 21 dicembre, sono il premio Oscar Hilary Swank e l'eroe del kolossal "300", Gerard Butler.

Il film, tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Cecelia Ahern, inizia con l'amore a prima vista sbocciato in Irlanda tra la giovanissima turista Holly e Gerry. Elizabeth, la madre di Holly interpretata da Kathy Bates, disapprova il fidanzamento perché ritiene la figlia troppo giovane per compiere un passo importante come il matrimonio.

Ma passano dieci anni, i due sono affiatatissimi e si amano come il primo giorno. Ma una terribile malattia sconvolge la vita dei coniugi e Holly si trova af affrontare una nuova situazione, difficile da gestire. Il dolore sembra insuperabile. Ma ci penseranno l'amica del cuore Gina Gershon (Lisa Kudrow, Phoebe del telefilm cult "Friends") e la sua famiglia ad aiutarla. Dopo qualche settimana cominciano ad arrivare tra le mani della giovane vedova i messaggi del marito scomparso. Una serie di istruzioni con richieste strane che piano piano la aiuteranno a ricostruirsi una vita.

Dopo gli impegnativi ruoli in "The Black Dahlia" e "Million Dollar Baby" la Swank si affida alla regia di Richard LaGravenese per una film in bilico tra il drammatico e la commedia. Gerard Butler cambia totalmente genere dopo le fatiche sostenute sul kolossal in costume "300", grazie al quale le sue quotazioni ad Hollywood sono vertiginosamente salite. Nel cast oltre ai due attori, ci sono: James Marsters che ha fatto parte del telefilm "Buffy", Jeffrey Dean Morgan (il Denny di Grey's Anatomy) e infine il cantante-attore Harry Connick Jr.
sabry_aminta3/10/2007, 15:32
wow che meraviglia,in italia si parla di PS!! grazie Laura!
speriamo che presto arrivi anche la data di distribuzione!!

jiujiu3/10/2007, 18:41

ed era pure l'ora!

Rinon864/10/2007, 00:27
Un piccolo articolo trovato in giro per il web riguardo P.S. I love you che ho trovato abbastanza simpatico ed adatto alle utenti del nostro forum

http://www.directorscup.it/news/archives/2...love_you_i.html

gemini2111/10/2007, 13:47
In questo articolo criticano l'accento irlandese di Gerry, dicendo che è il peggiore che si sia mai sentito ... io non le capisco tutte queste fisse sugli accenti, che lo lascino parlare con il suo e basta!!!

Ps, I luv ya: Scottish star butler enters pantheon of cringing Oirish accents


http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/fi...ts-1139222.html

FORGET Julia Roberts and her shocking attempt to pull off the flat tones of Kitty Kiernan in Michael Collins.

And please don't even mention Nicole Kidman in Far and Away -- there's a new contender for the worst Irish accent in Hollywood.

PS, I Love You is set to get them cringing in the aisles thanks to Scottish star Gerard Butler and his worst Irish accent ever. Gerard, who stars alongside Hilary Swank in the adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's best-selling novel, follows in the footsteps of a fine list of Hollywood actors who have tried and failed to capture an Irish accent on celluloid.

The Scottish star, who has an advantage over his Hollywood brethren with his Celtic roots, has still somehow managed to deliver an accent which would put the most over-the-top leprechaun loving faux Irish person to shame.

Indeed, Irish audiences will no doubt cringe as he glibly drops his t's and h's and over-stretches his vowels to portray Gerry Kennedy, the fun-loving husband to Swank's character Holly.

Acclaimed by fans as one of the most romantic novels of recent years, producers of the film will no doubt be crossing their fingers that viewers aren't tempted to block their ears throughout to save themselves the painful experience of Butler's 'lucky charms' take on the Irish accent -- which is not alone as films over the years show.

Up beside Gerard is Brad Pitt, who made many a Northerner weep with his heart-breakingly awful attempt at a Belfast accent in The Devil's Own.

Giving Brad and Gerard some stiff competition in the bad imitation league is Johnny Depp, who went way over the top with his attempt at an Irish accent for his role as the care-free gypsy character who has his wicked way with Juliette Binoche in Chocolat.

Fans of the book will no doubt be queuing to hear the Oirish tones of Butler when the film is released here in December.

sabry_aminta11/10/2007, 14:21
ma insomma...siamo sicuri che Gerry reciti con questo accento irlandese o la gente ha automaticamente pensato lo facesse dato il personaggio e invece lui parla con il suo di accento??
in ogni caso non capisco tutto questo 'ciarlare' inutile

manuphantom11/10/2007, 17:56
si hanno ancora da criticare mi incavolo come una bestia,io penso che reciterà con l'accento irlandese.

Rinon8611/10/2007, 18:05
Ma scusate dovevano pu trovare un difetto nel nostro mito se no non va audience!!! (se così si scrive XD)
E poi per me un accento vale l'altro basta che riesca a capire ciò che dice ^^

arielcips15/10/2007, 13:46
Sono d'accordo con Rinon...c'è molta puzza di bruciato in questo articolo...puzza di pubblicità...e lo conferma quest'altro pubblicato due giorni dopo,in cui si celebra la forza espressiva dell'accento 'scozzese' soprattutto nei film epici...

from: Sunday Herald 10/14,
on line: 10/13 http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnew...ical_movies.php

Accent is now on Scottish actors in historical movies
Pronounced trend toward Celtic tongue in epics
By Brian Pendreigh

jiujiu15/10/2007, 23:00

allora..forse sarò un pò la pecora nera...e andrò un pò controcorrente, ma credo che l'accento sia importante in un film...noi ci facciamo poco caso visto che l'inglese non è la nostra lingua madre, amiamo gerard e ci basta "vederlo in scena", forte della sua espressività, della sua voce e del suo immenso talento recitativo..non omettiamo che gerard ha lavorato a lungo sul suo accento( per renderlo neutro in alcuni film o inglese in poto, quello che era in beowulf) e mi fa rabbia vedere che lo criticano...però mettiamoci nei loro panni...cosa diremmo noi se in italia girassero un film ambientato in sicilia e il protagonista parlasse con accento milanese?

gemini2115/10/2007, 23:07

Infatti io non intendevo in quel senso, sinceramente gli accenti troppo marcati non mi piacciono un granchè nei film. Come quando nei film americani c'è un italo e i doppiatori italiani finiscono sempre per farlo parlare come se fosse un mafioso. (Mi viene in mente Raoul Bova nel film 'Under the Tuscan sun' era obrobrioso, avrei preferito sentirlo parlare come parla in tutti gli altri film). Preferisco di gran lunga che non ci sia nessun accento in particolare.

sabry_aminta4/12/2007, 11:51
Su http://www.cinematical.com/2007/12/03/gera...you-stars-a-qu/ danno la possibilità ai fans di inviare delle domande da fare a Gerry e Hillary nella loro prossima intervista...che dite,partecipiamo?
A parte questo,la giornalista racconta come ha conosciuto Gerry e come ne è diventata una 'piccola fan',oltre a fare un piccolo resoconto di PS.

Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank: Ask 'P.S. I Love You' Stars a Question
Posted Dec 3rd 2007 10:03PM by Patricia Chui

Way back when speculation was running wild about who should be cast as James Bond in Casino Royale, a friend of mine said to me adamantly, "No question! Gerard Butler, hands down. Dude. Geraaaaard Butler." (e qui come non dargli\le ragione )

Now, this was a good while ago, and I hadn't seen Phantom of the Opera yet, so I didn't know all that much about this "Gerard Butler" person. But before too long I went to an early press event for 300 at which we were treated to a surprise guest: Butler himself, sitting just a few rows from me, fielding questions like it was his favorite thing to do in the world.And not to get all fangirl on you or anything, but ... well, I went a little fangirl. It was the strangest thing. I felt like those teenagers on old Beatles clips. The man is charm and sex personified -- and soon, with the resounding success of 300, the entire rest of the world knew it, too, not just the millions of rabid Gerard Butler fans who, I discovered, can be both impressive and a little terrifying in their loyal devotion to "Gerry."

Well, Gerry's now trading in his loincloth for sensitive-guy clothes in the new romance P.S. I Love You, in which he plays a man who doesn't let a little death stop him from expressing his love for the wife he left behind. That wife? Oh, she's only played by one Hilary Swank, winner of (ho-hum) two Oscars, phenomenal actress and general ass-kicker extraordinaire (see: Million Dollar Baby, The Next Karate Kid). Heck, I'm pretty sure she could've played Bond AND the new Bond girl, if only anyone had thought to ask her.

In just a few days Butler and Swank will be interviewing each other at Moviefone's studios for our Unscripted interview series, and while we'd be perfectly happy to watch these two sit in a room silently -- or maybe duke it out, gladiator-style -- we'd rather have some questions for them to ask each other. So let us have it, impressively terrifying Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank fans. Ask both of these stars whatever you want to know, and check back here the week of December 17 to see if your question made it on the air.

To submit a question, you can leave it here in the comments, or you can text one to [email protected] (brought to you by Verizon Wireless). Please provide your first name and your city and state, and if you're looking for inspiration, then take a look at some of our past Unscripted interviews here. Good luck!


gemini214/12/2007, 18:07

Arrivata qui sono morta! (Assassinaaa!!)

jiujiu4/12/2007, 21:11

amen, sorella!

muahahahah...

sabry_aminta12/12/2007, 17:45
un nuovo articolo dal giornale scozzese http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment...86908-20237213/ in cui Gerry racconta dell'episodio dell'incidente con le bretelle e di come lui ci sia stato male tanto da...piangere!
Poi spende due parole sulle sue fans e sulle loro reazioni quando lo riconoscono per strada,del fatto che non riesce a fregarsene e parla con tutte
(allora,quando sarà,dovrò interpretare la parte dell'isterica per farmi consolare...mhm... )


Dec 12 2007 By John Dingwall

SCOTS movie hunk Gerard Butler broke down in tears on the set of his latest movie ... after he injured co-star Hilary Swank in a striptease scene.

It took several days to film the part of P.S. I Love You in which Gerard does the full monty.

But the shoot had to be halted for another five days after his trouser braces became snagged and belted Hilary in the forehead.

Gerard, 38, admitted his embarrassment at having to strip in front of a macho crew was nothing compared to his shock when Hilary had to be carted off to have stitches.

"I've never had to do anything in all my time as an actor that felt so ridiculous," he said.

"You have to remember most film crew are males and they're very male. Most are grips and electricians and you're standing there doing this little dance which is funny the first time. But then you do it for two days and you see them thinking, 'It's not funny anymore. You look stupid.'

"Then you almost kill one of the most famous and talented actresses of all time.

"The funny thing is that there are times as an actor where you think, 'I'm really going out on a limb here'. There are times when you're giving a lot to a film, but I felt when I was doing that striptease that I was making a fool of myself and being ridiculous.

"Then at the end of all that, I injured Hilary and production had shut to be down for five days."

But Gerard revealed that Hilary, a double Oscar winner for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, helped put him at ease after the accident.

"Despite feeling incredibly guilty, I was feeling really sorry for myself," said Gerard.

"I was thinking I don't deserve this feeling of guilt and shame.

"The second I did it, Hilary was amazing. Blood was coming down on to her hand, tears were running down her face and you could see the lump. I was saying: 'I'm so sorry' and she said, 'Don't even go there. Not your fault'.

"I could see in that moment her concern. She knew how awful I was feeling and she was basically saying: 'Listen, this stuff happens. Don't even think about going to that place'. I could tell that she meant it.

"It wasn't like she was trying to be the heroine here and make a big deal.That night the director called me and said: 'I know what you're like. I know you're sitting there feeling like s**t. This is not your fault. You've been amazing. You've given everything'."

GERARD continued: "That was beautiful because I was feeling terrible. It's bizarre. One minute we're sitting there doing a silly striptease, she's laughing and I'm laughing.

"Then the next minute she's on her way to hospital and everybody is gone.

"I'm sitting on the bed on my own in these stupid shamrock boxer shorts and a pair of Chelsea boots with my socks coming off.

"I have to tell you that I started crying. I put my head in my hands and cried."

The Glasgow-born actor excels in the movie adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's best-selling romantic novel as Gerry Kennedy, the late husband of Holly, played by Hilary.

Preparing for his death, he has written Holly a series of letters aimed at helping her to live life to the full when he is gone.

Although her friends and relatives think the letters are holding her back, they are actually helping her to move forward in unexpected ways.

Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick Jnr and Jeffrey Dean Morgan also star in the film directed by Richard LaGravenese, which was shot in Ireland and New York last year.

It's the perfect role to cement Gerard's status as a Hollywood sex symbol.

The in-demand star will follow his latest part with starring roles in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, which is already in post-production, as is Nim's Island, in which he stars alongside Jodie Foster and Morgan Griffin, and sci-fi movie Game.

But he admits he is still getting used to the women who have been throwing themselves at him since movies such as 300 and The Phantom Of The Opera.

"These are such hard questions to answer because if you even answer that, you're pretty much assuming your sexiness," said Gerard.

"It's like if I was to turn that around and ask the same thing and suddenly you're faced with answering that question.

"It's not easy so I can say that anything like that to me is nice. I'm not going to lie.

"You would rather have that kind of attention or comments than not, because they're sweet.

"You'd rather have somebody say you were sexy than you weren't sexy and that you were good looking than you were ugly.

"But at the same time, and I can say this from the heart, I don't get too caught up in any of that.

"Women get so excited and almost panicky at times. I do get recognised a lot more.

"When I am recognised, the reaction is often very strong, just because of the kind of movie that 300 was, or even sometimes Phantom because that's a film you either loved or hated.

"But I've seen some very, very strong and passionate reactions.

"The thing is that I'm a nice guy. I'm not so good at going: 'I don't give a monkey's about your reaction.' So I'm like: 'Ah, come here.'

"Then the next minute I'm stuck in a 10-minute conversation with someone who's crying. So that's the problem. If you get recognised at all, it can sometimes be a bit time consuming."

'Blood was coming down on to Hilary's hand, there were tears and you could see the lump'

gemini2112/12/2007, 22:51
Non so se Gerry l'abbia raccontata davvero così, ma mi sembra un po' melodrammatica. Capisco che si sia sentito in colpa, ma arrivare a piangere, in fondo è stato solo un incidente!

sabry_aminta13/12/2007, 12:29
si,può essere che il giornalista abbia un pò caricato la cosa...o magari lui è crollato per la preoccupazione di averle fatto male seriamente(Gegio sensibile )

gemini2115/12/2007, 15:29
Una luuuuunga intervista a Gerry

Gerard Butler Talks About 'P.S. I Love You'
From Rebecca Murray,
Your Guide to Hollywood Movies.

At the Los Angeles press junket for the romantic comedy P.S. I Love You Gerard Butler was asked by a male reporter if, after winning over the hearts of women worldwide in 300 and now starring – and stripping – in P.S. I Love You, he’d just give real guys a break. Butler’s response came accompanied by a hearty chuckle. “I should give myself a break as well because I’m only playing characters. I’m not, unfortunately, like either of them in real life. Not quite as powerful as Leonidas and not quite as charming and sweet as ‘Gerry’. I’m only letting myself down as well.”
Gerard Butler plays a husband who, knowing he only has a short time left to live, writes a series of letters hoping to help his wife handle the grieving process after his death.

Despite the fact he dies near the beginning of the film, Butler fans should be happy to note that his death early on in the film just means a large portion of his scenes are either flashbacks or with his wife Holly (Hilary Swank) imagining him still alive and kicking.
Playing a dead guy didn’t affect how he approached the character of Gerry. “If you sit and think about it, that might feel like a problem. But to me, I was just being Gerry. These were experiences that happened. They may be memories, but they’re just flashbacks so I was just playing it like I would have played it for real. Whether they’d been a part of the story without being a flashback or a memory, I wouldn’t have done it any different I don’t think. Even the parts where I’m kind of in her mind and you think, ‘Am I in her mind or is he actually a ghost?’ Again, to me, it’s real to me. I’m not aware of that, and I think anything else would be not right for the story. When I’m there playing a song in her living room, I’m there playing a song in her living room. It’s like just another day at the house except I’m talking in a way as if I’d always been there, except about being dead. I know that sounds weird, but in actuality that’s what works the best.”

With P. S. I Love You Butler leaves the action genre for a bit and returns to a more character-driven, intimate story, like he did with Dear Frankie. “It’s really nice to get back in touch with more human, more real, more subtle, genuine, emotional relationships,” admitted Butler. “What was cool about this was, one, I’m working with a two-time Oscar winner in Richard [LaGravenese] who’s such an incredibly talented writer. But two, I was having a chance to do all of that but also be funny. I always wanted a chance to be funny in something again. I’ve been offered a few comedies over the years and not taken them because it would have been me just doing it for the sake of doing a comedy. They weren’t quite good enough. Whereas this, his writing is so phenomenal that it’s been a long time since this happened where I’ve literally picked it up and gone, ‘I can’t believe I’m getting the chance to say that. This is just awesome.’ When you get a role like that and you’re dying to do these scenes because you just think they’re hilarious or silly or irreverent or beautiful, it’s great. This is my favorite part of my job.”

Butler’s not totally unlike the film’s Gerry. “I saw a lot of my better parts in him and then I could also see a lot of my downfalls in him in so much as things that he has that I didn’t think I had,” said Butler. “But like a purity that goes further, that ability to be kind of instinctively profound and easy with life, and that applies to his relationships, to his friends, that I feel that I have sometimes but not as much as I would like. Like, I worry over things too much or I let other things get in the way. You felt with Gerry he was just one of these guys that his priorities just naturally fell into the right way. He knew how to make everybody feel great, and it just came with a lot of ease. I have those moments, but not as much as I would like.”

Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays an old friend and former bandmate of Butler’s in the film and credits the plentiful supply of Guinness with helping him get over having to sing, play the guitar and do an Irish accent in the romantic comedy. Butler has his own Guinness connection. “Believe it or not I was actually the Guinness man in Ireland when I first started out,” revealed Butler. “I did a Guinness commercial for Ireland and I played identical twins in it. That was really cool. I had a lot of fun. I filmed in Dublin and I filmed in LA. So now I’m playing an Irishman and I’m talking about Guinness, so maybe there was some sense of destiny to Gerry Kennedy. But yeah, it’s difficult to take the Guinness out of Ireland or Ireland out of the Guinness. It’s like taking the bagpipes out of Scotland, I suppose.”

He sang in Phantom of the Opera so that part of getting into character wasn’t too difficult for the Scottish actor. “You know, I used to sing in a rock band for fun – not professionally. But those kinds of songs for me, I’ve always kind of loved to sing. I hadn’t actually sung for a while but the pressure was off, as opposed to the Phantom where it’s a very different style of singing. It took a lot more training. There was a lot more pressure. In this, it wasn’t about Gerry being a great singer. It was about being a singer singing for fun. It was karaoke, so I actually had a great time. I loved the songs that I got to sing so it was nice to be able to sing in that environment.”

In real life, Butler’s karaoke choices are the classics. “I love karaoke and I’m very good at the cheesy ones, like New York, New York or I Did It My Way. I can see people when I do it going, ‘Oh no, he’s not doing My Way again!,’ with their heads in their hands. But I love it. I only really have three or four karaoke songs that I know. I always get nervous because a couple times I sang karaoke thinking I knew songs, and then when I started singing and the words came out I realized I didn’t know [them]. I could see the words but I didn’t know when they came. There’s nothing worse than doing that in front of a big crowd. Never again. Never again. I’ve had a couple of disasters.”

Gerard Butler’s co-star, two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, managed to survive a boxing movie without injury however she wasn’t so lucky on the set of P.S. I Love You. During the filming of Butler’s striptease, Swank was struck in the face with one of Butler’s suspenders and required stitches. Butler, of course, felt horrible about the accident. “It was maybe my worst day as an actor. I can laugh now because she laughs at it, and quite enjoys telling people the story,” said Butler. “But at the time, I mean, it was an accident but still the suspender was on my boxer shorts. It got stuck behind me and I’d been doing this scene for a day and a half, stripping, moving, dancing, and then pretending that it hits me in the eye.
And it got stuck behind me and flew over my head, and hit her in the head.”
“Within 5 minutes she’d been taken to the hospital. The whole set, everyone was talking, ‘That’s a wrap,’ and they’re all gone. And I’m sitting on the bed on my own. And I have to say, I busted my balls in that scene. There’s times as an actor where you go, ‘Okay, I know I’ve given a lot for this.’ And you’re making a fool of yourself, you’re dancing about in front of a bunch of guys, it’s appreciated when you keep that up that you’ve given a lot. And at the end of that all I had as thanks was that I scarred Hilary Swank and that a production had shut down for five days [laughing]. It was kind of like, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t feel I deserve that.’ But she was so cool about it immediately, literally when it happened. She knew that it wasn’t pretty and I said, ‘I’m so sorry.’ She said, ‘Don’t even go there. Don’t even go there because this [isn’t] your fault,’ which I thought said a lot about Hilary, the kind of person she is.”

The huge box office success of 300 helped propel Gerard Butler into a different level of stardom, although his diehard fans (he could quite possibly be the most popular actor on the internet, based on the incredible number of fansites dedicated to his life and career) didn’t need that action epic to know Butler’s one to watch. Asked how his life’s changed over the past few years with a couple of starring roles in big studio films under his belt, Butler replied, “My bones creak a little bit more. I mean, it’s changed. I can’t avoid the fact that, in terms of success with my career, that’s changed a lot. In terms of the work that I’m now doing, the interest, even awareness, it’s all increased hugely. That’s been fantastic, but it’s brought a whole new set of pressures. That is also kind of learning, how would you say, to pace myself because I’m now presented with even better work and better directors and more exciting opportunities and it’s hard to resist that. So I’ve now done three films back to back and I’ve said no to a hundred times that many, so it’s kind of tough.”
“But in terms of anything other than that, celebrity status or stardom, that’s always just a matter of degree anyway. You can still get around that. I think a lot of people really play on that a little too much and it’s not really my thing. I’m very blessed to do what I do, and I work really hard at it. In fact, I think I work too hard at it [laughing]. I think that I should calm it down a little and take some time off, but it’s a good feeling when you can feel there’s a real strong foundation and the ball is rolling on its own, and you don’t have to hype yourself around and do anything other than the jobs, which is really what I [like]. I can’t lie. If I could just stick to the acting and not have to do press, I’d be more than happy, because I’m an actor. I find it hard to do both. Like, I’m in the middle of a film right now and already struggling to get through that film. It’s great, I love it, but it’s hard work. And then suddenly you have to come and do 250 interviews about a film… I’ll finish here and go straight back and start working at 5 on Tuesday morning.”

As for choosing roles, Butler doesn’t have a grand plan but he does have specific things he looks for in scripts. “I think you have some general guidelines, but you can’t apply some hard and strict rules about that. At the end of the day it’s what excites you the most, for whatever reason that may be, because the script is so well-written or brilliant or imaginative, or the character is really cool or different or moving. But also being careful not to climb back into the same hole you’ve just been in, so I’m always trying to change it up a little bit.”

The actor was rumored to be attached to the Untouchables prequel and had been announced as taking over the role of Snake Plissken in the remake of Escape from New York, something the original Snake - Kurt Russell - wasn't too pleased to hear. Commenting on those two projects, Butler said, “Untouchables was something where I’d never done anything like that before so. I don’t know what’s going on with that right now. Snake Plissken, that I’d say the changes are not quite going the way that I wanted to see them go so I’m not involved in that one anymore. This often happens. You get involved in projects on the understanding that, at the end of the day for a million different reasons, they might not happen. You know, you hope they will. A lot of the projects I have over the years become involved in are because other actors who were involved in them dropped out, so I guess that’s the way they worked.”

sabry_aminta16/12/2007, 21:12
come al solito quando gli si dà da parlare il nostro Gerry si scatena...ihih...
mi piace quando racconta la storia del karaoke

arielcips17/12/2007, 17:34
Quest'uomo non è solo uno strafigo...è affascinante,riflessivo,intelligente,umile,adorabileeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

arielcips19/12/2007, 14:54
Secondo l'intervista riportata http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment...08-20258844/,il nostro fanatico perfezionista avrebbe passato notti su notti in bianco,per imparare a suonare bene la chitarra.....

sabry_aminta19/12/2007, 16:19

il solito perfezionista...ma qui sfiora il patologico

sabry_aminta20/12/2007, 13:00
altra intervista,rilasciata dal http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et...ack=1&cset=true
( --> le mie reazioni durante la lettura )

Butler is a man of action (P.S.: He has a soft side too)

Scottish actor goes from '300's' King Leonidas to a romantic comedy.
By Cristy Lytal, Special to The Times
December 20, 2007

SCOTTISH actor Gerard Butler has a personal army, and it numbers far more than 300. They call themselves Gerry's Tarts, enthuse about the actor on GerardButler.net and raise money for his favorite charities. In anticipation of the Friday release of "P.S. I Love You," this highly mobilized female fan club has sent Butler a gift.

"I have to show you this," he says, leaping from his seat on the sofa and striding across his suite at the Beverly Hilton, where he is preparing for a grueling press junket. "I just got this today. This is my doll from [the 2003 sci-fi film] 'Timeline,' and a diary of what it's wearing, the diary of where it's been. It's been sent from city to city to different people, and they write and they take photos of the Gerry doll." In one photo, the doll is trying to get into Victoria's Secret. Butler roars with laughter at the sight.

"P.S." should unleash a new wave of adoration among the legions of estrogen-fueled fans who swooned over his chiseled abs in "300" and his sonorous vocals in "The Phantom of the Opera." In the very romantic comedy, based on the novel by Cecelia Ahern, Butler plays Gerry Kennedy, an Irishman who dies of a brain tumor but leaves a trail of love letters for his widow, Holly (Hilary Swank), to help her cope with the loss. In scenes depicting Kennedy before his death, Butler sings, plays guitar and performs a comical striptease in boxers and suspenders. The get-up is more than worthy of a doll of its own.

"The thing about Gerry [Butler] is he's just a hoot, and you never know what he's going to do," Swank says. "And you never know what's going to come out of his mouth next. He'll just go off on something. And he'll tell you a story about a dream he had, and he'll say, 'What do you think that means?' He's really fresh and brings that quality to everything he does."

This includes interviews. Before he begins answering questions, he barks, "Is there anybody through there in the other room?"

"Yes, there is," answers a member of his entourage.

"Could you guys not be there?" he replies.

"No, we're not. I can't hear a word."

"Well, how -- you just heard me there."

Once the walls no longer have ears, he explains, "I just was doing an interview, and there were about 15 people in the background. I'd just rather be speaking to the person I'm speaking to rather than dealing with an audience."

Butler speaks passionately about a range of topics: the way people joke at Scottish and Irish wakes, his interest in meditation and yoga, and how peeved he is to have to call football "soccer." ("Ours is way more like football than American football. We play with our feet. So get rid of the name. Give us it back!") He looks dapper and fresh in a black button-down and black jeans, even though he has slept only two hours each for the last two nights between studio meetings, filming and press. He exudes the quality that would inspire "300's" Spartans to follow him to their deaths on the battlefield, "The Phantom of the Opera's" Christine to feel love for him despite a gravely deformed face or "P.S.'s" Holly to lose herself in grief at his death. The man has charisma.

"Gerry has this incredible combination of a sexy, masculine Spartan and a wonderful, boyish, mischievous quality and, to me, a Cary Grant quality," says "P.S." writer-director Richard LaGravenese. "A friend of mine [director Ted Demme] had died prior to writing the script, and in a way, for me, Gerry was playing my friend. We talked about that quite a bit, because he and my friend had very much a similar spirit."

Butler's offbeat energy may have something to do with his Scottish upbringing and the late start he got in acting. He was born in Glasgow and raised by his divorced mother in Paisley, was more of a jock than a thespian and spent his time playing soccer, volleyball, badminton and golf. When he was 15, he attended the Scottish Youth Theatre, but when it came time to choose a career, he didn't see acting as a viable option. "It's hard enough if you're American," he says. "Then if you go to London, there's even less opportunity. And then you take yourself 500 miles up north and say you're from Glasgow, you're an old Scotsboy, it's like, what chance have you got of making it as an actor? So I did well in school and then went into law school. And yet I hadn't asked myself the question: Is this really, really, really, in this one life that I'm going to have, what I want to do? And it wasn't."

His subsequent soul-searching years included a few youthful brushes with the law and a battle with alcoholism, but he sorted it out before too long and landed a role opposite Judi Dench and Billy Connolly in "Mrs. Brown."

But it was "300" that allowed Butler to reign at the box office for the first time in his career. "Even before he was officially on the movie, he had started training," recalls "300" writer-director Zack Snyder. "That to me made me go, 'Man, this guy knows what it takes.' I mean, I don't know that he knew exactly what he was in for, but he took it head on. You know, a lot of actors often do multiple movies and overlap everything, and he kind of just committed to '300,' and that was all he had."

"P.S." is a true departure for a man best known for his depictions of larger-than-life characters such as Attila, Beowulf and Leonidas. Even Butler claims he "can't believe that that's the same guy that was in '300.' " And though he's currently shooting another action film, "Game," and recently wrapped the Guy Ritchie mob flick "RocknRolla," he's looking forward to showing audiences his softer side in "P.S." -- as well as in April's family adventure "Nim's Island" -- for more reasons than one.

"I'm like, 'Look, I'm not saying I'm the best dramatic or comedy actor,' " Butler jokes, " 'but you've got to let me do it, because my body can't take any more of the action!' "

gemini2120/12/2007, 14:29
E' sempre eccezionale nelle interviste!


Ma come fa!! Io schiatterei!

gemini2120/12/2007, 18:05
Un altro articolo in cui parla anche della bambola di Marek autografata da lui e messa all'asta su e-bay per beneficenza. (L'espressione nella foto si commenta da sola )

http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=l...esdec201xu2.jpg

sabry_aminta20/12/2007, 19:46
la bambola di Marek ormai è il mio mito...la voglio :malol:

sabry_aminta21/12/2007, 12:11
e ancora una bella intervista a Gerry su
http://www.canmag.com/nw/9978-ps-i-love-you-gerard-butler
Ora,o questo sito a messo insieme parti di varie interviste o Gerry ha detto la stessa cosa a tutti... però qualcosa di nuovo c'è


P.S. I Love You is a date movie but real guys may find they can't measure up to Gerard Butler. If his rock hard abs in 300 weren't enough, now he's the most romantic dead guy ever. He's prepared letters and surprises for his wife after his passing.

Gerard Butler on P.S. I Love You

"I should give myself a break as well because I’m only playing characters," Butler said. "I’m not unfortunately like either of them in real life. Not quite as powerful as Leonidas and not quite as charming and sweet as Gerry. I’m only letting myself down as well."

Gerry in P.S. I Love You is at least a tad more accessible than the king of the Spartans. "I saw a lot of my better parts in him and then I could also see a lot of my downfalls in him in so much as things that he has that I didn’t think I had. But like a purity that goes further, that ability to be kind of instinctively profound and easy with life, and that applies to his relationships, to his friends, that I feel that I have sometimes but not as much as I would like. Like I worry over things too much or I let other things get in the way. You felt with Gerry he was just one of these guys that his priorities just naturally fell into the right way, and he knew how to make everybody feel great, and it just came with a lot of ease. I have those moments, but not as much as I would like."

Gerry is dead by the opening credits, yet Butler gets to keep appearing in the film. "Because you have to remember. I mean, if you sit and think about it, that might feel like a problem, but to me, I was just being Gerry. These were experiences that happened. They may be memories, but they’re just flashbacks so I was just playing it like I would have played it for real. Whether they’d been a part of the story without being a flashback or a memory, I wouldn’t have done it any different I don’t think. Even the parts where I’m kind of in her mind and you think, ‘Am I in her mind or is he actually a ghost?’ Again, to me, it’s real to me. I’m not aware of that and I think anything else would be not right for the story. When I’m there playing a song in her living room, I’m there playing a song in her living room. It’s like just another day at the house except I’m talking in a way as if I’d always been there, except about being dead. I know that sounds weird but in actuality that’s what works the best."

The last two years have been big for Butler, but he's still the same old Gerry. "My bones creak a little bit more. I mean, it’s changed. I can’t avoid the fact that in terms of success with my career that’s changed a lot, in terms of the work that I’m now doing, the interest, even awareness, it’s all increased hugely and that’s been fantastic but it’s brought a whole new set of pressures. That is also kind of learning, how would you say, to pace myself because I’m now presented with even better work and better directors and more exciting opportunities and it’s hard to resist that. So I’ve now done three films back to back and I’ve said no to a hundred times that many so it’s kind of tough. But in terms of anything other than that, celebrity status or stardom, that’s always just a matter of degree anyway. You can still get around that. I think a lot of people really play on that a little too much and it’s not really my thing. I’m very blessed to do what I do and I work really hard at it."


Even the romantic comedy was not free from physicality, as Butler accidentally injured costar Hilary Swank one day. "It was not my typical day. ‘Hey mom, yeah, it’s me. No, she’s at the hospital getting four stitches. No it was me. I just hurt her with my suspender.’ It was maybe my worst day as an actor. I can laugh now because she laughs at it, and quite enjoys telling people the story. I mean, it was an accident but still the suspender was on my boxer shorts. It got stuck behind me and I’d been doing this scene for a day and a half, stripping, moving, dancing, and then pretending that it hits me in the eye. And it got stuck behind me and flew over my head, and hit her in the head. Within five minutes she’d been taken to the hospital. The whole set, everyone was talking, ‘That’s a wrap,’ and they’re all gone. And I’m sitting on the bed on my own. But she was so cool about it immediately, literally when it happened. She knew that it wasn’t pretty and I said, ‘I’m so sorry.’ She said, ‘Don’t even go there. Don’t even go there because this [isn’t] your fault,’ which I thought said a lot about Hilary, the kind of person she is."

gemini2124/12/2007, 21:18
A Love that's Messy, Passionate ... and Real

Jamie PortmanCanWest News Service
Sunday, December 23, 2007
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The way in which P.S. I Love You begins is probably unprecedented in the annals of Hollywood.

You're introduced to an attractive young married couple having a fight.

Hilary Swank -- eyes blazing, her body a bundle of coiled hostility -- is on the verbal attack against Gerard Butler, who has caused her great offence earlier in the evening and forced her to question their relationship.

Butler, laidback, only mildly defensive and indeed somewhat bewildered over her outburst, is responding with a mixture of wounded pride and puppy-dog Irish charm.

Despite the intensity of the fracas, there's no doubt that the two love each other -- which is the message that Swank, Butler and writer-director Richard LaGravenese wanted to deliver when filming this marital battle royal. But what makes the sequence so unusual is that it happens before the title credits roll for the film and that it lasts close to 15 minutes.

The aim, LaGravenese says, was to deliver a blueprint of a typical marriage and real love -- "a love that was messy and full of passion and disagreement and also familiarity and forgiveness and joy and love."

There was also an immediate need to establish a potent onscreen chemistry between its two stars right at the start because, after those beginning credits, Swank is widowed and only has the memories of a wonderful marriage to fall back on.

"That first scene was 12 pages -- that's 10 per cent of the movie," Swank says. She's a huge fan of LaGravenese, whose previous writing credits include Freedom Writers, The Horse Whisperer and Bridges of Madison County.

"I think he's one of the best writers out there and now he's proving to be such a great director as well," she adds. But what she also finds special about LaGravenese is that he really believes in writing scenes for actors.

Swank is used to seeing scripts where a page of script may require only a few lines of dialogue from each actor, but this was different. Even on her days off, Swank was immersed in memorizing her lines.

"With the pace of this movie being romantic, and having comedy within it ... and needing to really know the lines inside and out, my off-time was completely devoted to these long scenes and learning them."

Butler, 38, found the whole experience fascinating -- and a career first. In fact, he suggests it was more challenging to do than the opening battle sequence in his recent hit, 300.

"The scene's a real mixture because on the one hand we had great chemistry together, and a lot of things fell into place immediately, and I was amazed at how we played off each other," Butler recalls. "But on the other side of that, this has to be one of the longest opening scenes in a modern movie."

Butler says that in an age when the average scene in a movie lasts two minutes, he and Swank had to work hard to justify the length of this sequence -- to try and keep it going "with actions and movement and emotion and mood and tempo, to allow it to be that long without getting bored. And then to do that and still keep it natural and keep that spark and chemistry . . . that was a challenge."

Swank and Butler had three days of rehearsal with LaGravenese before the cameras even started rolling. They also spent a lot of time in the apartment set being used for the scene. "We outlined everywhere we wanted to go and at what time, so we could be really quick with it and not waste time on the set," Swank says. "It was to conserve all our hours, because hours are money. So we went in on our weekends and off-times to make sure we got that scene right, because it's such an integral part of the movie."

The reason this lengthy opening scene is so integral is that it must demonstrate the intensity of this couple's relationship before the story moves on to the next crucial scene, which reveals that Swank is now a widow who has lost her husband to an unexpected brain tumour. But as the movie unfolds, Butler's reassuring spirit is still there to help Swank through her bereavement. He has accomplished this before his death by penning a series of letters to her -- letters which will be delivered to herself at key moments, beginning with her 30th birthday, and which are aimed at helping her through her bereavement and into acceptance of a new life without him.

P.S. I Love You is based on the bestselling novel by Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern and also stars Harry Connick Jr., Kathy Bates, Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon. But everyone connected with the project knew that the film's ultimate success would depend on the two leads, because although Swank must carry the name burden of the story, her Irish charmer of a husband still shows up in brief flashback sequences.

Swank considers herself lucky to have Butler as her co-star.

"Isn't he great? He's a great and wonderful guy and we really hit it off. You know, I consider him a friend."

She says that because Butler started into the acting business late, he brings an unusual freshness to his roles.

"He doesn't have any preconceived ideas about how it should work, so he's really playful. He's kind of a kid in that way. He has a lot of wonder -- and that's essentially what acting is."

She knows that audiences who see the movie will love Butler's performance.

"If you didn't love Gerry, if you didn't love him in this movie, you wouldn't go on the journey with my character. So to fall in love with him that deeply in the first 15 minutes of the movie really says a lot about him."

As for Butler, he knew during those early rehearsals that the chemistry was there.

"I actually don't think it was something we really had to work at. . . . We have a great spark together -- she's a pretty amazing actress. . . . I knew she wasn't out to get me. I wasn't out to get her. We were just having fun and making something we both loved."

Swank says Butler's presence helped make P.S. I Love You a stress-free experience -- even during the scene when she had to strip down to her underwear.

"You know, when I'm reading a script, I don't stop at something like that," she laughs. "I just go with the flow. But of course, the day before, you're like: 'Tomorrow I'm in my panties and bra? Oh, that's a weird day at the office!' "

gemini2130/12/2007, 12:01
Alcune dichiarazioni di gerry tratte da due interviste

Glasgow kisser

Article Date: December 28, 2007 | Publication: Sydney Morning Herald | Author: Helen Barlow
http://www.smh.com.au/

"I actually have been offered a lot of romantic roles since Phantom Of The Opera," says Butler, who smoldered behind a mask in Joel Schumacher's movie. "The question is, do you do it just because you can or do you wait for the right one? I didn't want to take something just because it was romantic. Eighty per cent of the romantic stories I read I think are vomit-worthy."

Initially Butler was attracted to this romantic comedy not only because he got to play opposite Swank, Kathy Bates (her mother) and Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon (her best friends) but because of the credentials of screenwriter Richard LaGravenese.

"Richard wrote and directed Freedom Writers [starring Swank]. Here he wrote this phenomenally hilarious and heartbreaking script adapted from a novel by Cecelia Ahern, the daughter of the Irish Prime Minister [Bertie Ahern], and I couldn't wait to do it."

"I feel that in my career, people have seen me over to the right and over to the left but haven't really seen me," Butler says. "I get to be far more like myself in P.¿S. than I ever have been."

Ultimately, Butler doesn't mind missing out on playing 007.

"I've done a lot of action films so I don't find action roles as exciting as other guys do. The one thing I thought I had going for my career was variety, whereas Bond historically pins you down to a certain position.

"I was also more excited doing 300, something that had never been done before, rather than explaining the difference between me and the other six James Bonds, and then having 1000 photos taken with the watch and sunglasses. I'd probably be a lot richer but a lot more pissed off."

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The Swingin' Scotsman; Gerard Butler

Article Date: December 28, 2007 | Publication: National Post | Author: Bob Thompson
http://www.nationalpost.com/

Butler says there's little chance of another 300-type picture for him. The Scottish actor does acknowledge, however, that 300 changed his career opportunities and his recognition factor.

"I do get recognized a lot more, but I can still get away from it all when I want to," says the 38-year-old.

In the meantime, Butler gets lovey dovey in P.S. I Love You, which opened last Friday. In the movie, Hilary Swank reads the love letters of her dead husband (Butler) to help her adjust to his passing. It's quite a departure -- moving from action hero to weepy romantic comedy -- but Butler is OK with that. "I am a swinger," he says laughing.

Currently, he's filming Game, in which humans can control other humans through online gaming environments. The movie is aimed at the same crowd that flocked to 300. "It wasn't an obvious choice, and it might be a risk, but I think the film has an incredible imagination," he says.

Of his Kurt Russell role in the remake of Escape from New York, Butler reports that he hasn't dropped out of the project as reported earlier. Instead he's taking a wait-and-see position. "There is no start time for it yet," he says.

And he insists he's not angry with 300 director Zach Snyder for not giving him a role in the much anticipated movie version of the graphic comic, Watchmen. "I wasn't available anyway," Butler says.
arielcips30/12/2007, 12:38
...io adoro quest'uomo!Ha delle risposte intelligenti,mai banali,sempre entusiaste...
Ma:ho capito bene? questo è il personaggio che più gli somiglia o meno?

gemini2130/12/2007, 12:46
Che gli somiglia di più

sabry_aminta23/1/2008, 13:13
Su un giornale locale della Contea di Carlow in Irlanda è stato pubblicato questo articolo che sembra voler parlare di PSILY(dal titolo) ma in cui,in realtà,si sono messi a spulciare nell'albero genealogico di Gerry...
(non hanno proprio niente da fare... )

PS, I Love You, the Myshall connection
By Suzanne Pender


He’s responsible for an avalanche of ladies emerging from their local cinemas this week simultaneously weeping and drooling, and PS…he’s from Carlow!

Well – sort of!

The lineage of heart-throb Gerard Butler, the star of hit movie PS I Love You, begins in county Carlow with his great grandmother Mary (nee Brennan) and great grandfather Edward Butler, who both hailed from Myshall.

The Butler family emigrated to Scotland and lo and behold, three generations later a young Gerard is born in bonny Glasgow and subsequently becomes a Hollywood hunk!

Gerard’s great grandmother, Mary Brennan, was the sister of well-known Ned Brennan, a postman in Myshall for years, while Gerard’s grandfather on his father’s side, Johnny Butler, is buried in Myshall.

Nowadays Gerard has many relatives still living in Carlow, including Michael Dawson of Maple Lawn, Ballon, who is a cousin on the Brennan side, cousins include Tom Nolan of Carlow Electrical, Dick Nolan of Altamont, Kilbride, and Tom Nolan of Casteltown, Carlow.

“I’d say I know more about Gerard than he does about me,” laughed Michael Dawson, as he recounted the county Carlow family tree.

Gerard graduated from Glasgow University Law School before embarking on his early career in stage plays.

He then landed his first film role as Archie Brown in 1997’s Mrs. Brown alongside Judi Dench and Billy Connelly, and that same year appeared in a minor role in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies.

In 1999, he began filming his first lead role as Attila the Hun in the American TV mini-series Attila. During filming of Attila, the production actually stopped in order for him to film his second lead role, as Dracula in Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000.

In 2003, he starred opposite Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and the following year he was cast in the title role of Joel Schumacher’s film rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, winning much critical acclaim.

In 2005, Gerard began production of 300, in which he starred as King Leonidas of Sparta. The movie 300 was released in the US on March 9, 2007 and currently holds the record for the highest opening weekend box office gross in the month of March at over $72 million during that first weekend.

Butler received various awards for this role including “Action Star of the Year” at the Taurus World Stund Awards and “Biggest Ass Kicker” at the 2007 Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards.

In 2006, Gerard began work on PS I Love You with Hilary Swank, playing the role of Gerry Kennedy in the film that is based on Cecelia Ahern’s novel and was released in December 2007.

Who knows, maybe his dalliances as the Irish Gerry might spark an interest in his Irish roots. Form an orderly queue ladies, for the role of his county Carlow tour guide!

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adesso che so come si chiamavano i bisnonni e chi sono i cugini irlandesi di Gerry sto molto meglio...voi?

arielcips23/1/2008, 19:25
A proposito di affetti familiari,ecco un articolo del Sun che sottolinea(e ci fa taaanto piacere) che la sera della prima di Psily,Gerry non aveva occhi che...per la sua Mamma!!!


http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sunai8.jpg

manuphantom24/1/2008, 12:34
ma che dolce,si vede che ama tanto la sua mamma,è tenerissimo gerry.

gemini2127/1/2008, 18:57
CINEMA: IN ITALIA "P.S. I LOVE YOU" CON HILLARY SWANK

http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimor...tml?ref=hpsbdx1

Sbarca in Italia "P.S. I love you", il nuovo film di Richard LaGravenese, con Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler e Kathy Bates, che sara' nelle sale da venerdi' prossimo. La pellicola racconta la grande storia d'amore di Holly e Gerry, coronata da un matrimonio felice, e interrotta dalla morte dell'uomo, dopo un periodo di malattia. Alla donna sembra di non vivere piu', quando cominciano ad arrivarle delle lettere che il marito aveva scritto durante l'ultimo periodo della sua vita: incoraggiamenti, auguri di compleanno? tutti finiscono allo stesso modo, con il post scriptum 'I love you'. La famiglia di Holly e' preoccupata per questo attaccamento al passato, ma la verita' e' che in questo modo l'amore sta andando oltre la morte. C'p attesa per conoscere l'esito del botteghino: il film esce in contemporanea con l'attesissimo horror "Cloverfield", che in America ha gia' battuto diversi record d'incasso.

gemini2129/1/2008, 13:47
Da il giornale

http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=237262

Tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Cecilia Ahern, lo sceneggiatore Richard LaGravenese, torna al dramma amoroso con P.S. I Love You, un film malinconico ma anche pieno di ottimistici slanci vitali. Oltre al Premio Oscar Hilary Swank, il sexy Leonida di «300», Gerard Butler, nei panni di un appassionato, divertente e impetuoso irlandese di nome Gerry in versione romantica.

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Per fortuna viene considerato anche Gerry

sabry_aminta31/1/2008, 13:45
A quanto pare Gerry ha trovato la forza per smettere di fumare( ) proprio grazie a PSILY

Gerard Butler says his new movie made him quit smoking

Gerard Butler Scots actor Gerard Butler says his moving new movie ‘P.S. I Love You’ made him quit smoking.

The ‘300′ hardman plays an Irishman who succumbs to cancer and leaves his widow, played by Hilary Swank, moving letters to help her get through her grief.

Butler insists filming the flick “lessened my fear of death” - and also opened up his eyes about how smoking was risking his life unnecessarily. “I was smoking a huge amount and having real bad premonitions and then I got this role where the guy dies of cancer,” Butler said.

“The film made me contemplate death and realize I was playing Russian roulette with my health. I’ve since stopped smoking.”

Butler had previous had to quit booze - a process he say was “painful and insane”.

But until P.S. I Love You he feared he may never be able to quit cigarettes.

Now he is free of both vices, and insists: “I think this s it. I haven’t drunk for almost 10 years and it’s been seven or eight months since I smoked.”

Despite the depressing theme of the movie, Butler says it was “full of hope”.

“No matter what you have to go through and what you suffer, hen you have true love, you can put up with anything.”

Source:http://www.showbizspy.com/2008/01/30/gerard-butler-says-his-new-movie-made-him-quit-smoking/

gemini2131/1/2008, 14:46
Dubito che sia stato proprio grazie a P.S. I love you che abbia smesso di fumare visto che a Marzo/Aprile fumava ancora.
Però sono contenta che abbia smesso finalmente!!

sabry_aminta1/2/2008, 13:31
dal sito de http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=238172#/a.pic1?ID=238172 un articolo di stamattina

Hilary Swank diventa vedova allegra grazie allo spiritoso marito defunto

di Redazione - venerdì 01 febbraio 2008, 07:00

Sarà perché - da Leonida in 300 - ha lasciato una vedova inconsolabile che Gerard Butler torna sugli schermi in P.S. I Love You di Richard LaGravenese come defunto che cerca di rendere allegra la vedovanza di Hilary Swank, suggerendole come darsi a un altro. È complicità coniugale, ma postuma, unico modo che Hollywood ha per idealizzare il triangolo per un pubblico di famiglie. Il cinema francese e quello italiano (si pensi ai film di Guido Leoni con la moglie, Carmen Villani, e quelli di Ruggero Deodato con la moglie, Silvia Dionisio) hanno aderito spesso alla coppia «estesa», ma qui tutti erano bene in carne. Poiché Butler è simpatico e la Swank è brava - in qualsiasi ruolo, inclusi quelli da commedia -, si può divertire anche chi capisce quel che Lagravenese vuol dire. Anzi, l'ingenuo potrà credere che il film sia per lui, non per i maliziosi.

P.S. I LOVE YOU di Richard LaGravenese (Usa, 2007), con Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler. 126 minuti
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Menomale che Gerry risulta simpatico(io aggiungerei bravissimo)...comunque mi sembra un buon articolo

gemini215/2/2008, 17:41
CINEMA/ HILARY SWANK: UN ALTRO OSCAR? NON CI PENSO NEMMENO

http://notizie.alice.it/notizie/spettacoli...ml?pmk=nothpspe

L'attrice sul grande schermo con la commedia 'P.S. I love you'

Roma, 5 feb. (Apcom) - Hilary Swank, attualmente sul grande schermo con la commedia romantica 'P.S. I love you', non si aspetta un altro Oscar. "Non ci penso nemmeno. Non sono mai alla ricerca di film che valgano un Oscar, - ha dichiarato al settimanale Grazie in edicola domani - ma semplicemente di copioni e storie che mi attraggano al punto da volerne fare parte". L'attrice americana, infatti, nonostante la giovane età, ha già vinto due statuette: la prima con 'Boys dont'cry' e la seconda con 'Million Dollar Baby'.

La Swank racconta la scena in cui l'attore Gerard Butler si esibisce per lei in uno spogliarello: "Sono finita al pronto soccorso per colpa di quella scena, incredibile vero? Con tutte le acrobazie rischiose e i round di boxe per cui mi sono allenata nella mia carriera di attrice, è stato il ballo sexy di Gerard a farmi sanguinare. Chi ha detto che i preliminari non possono essere pericolosi?".

"Lo spogliarello era molto divertente. Gerard, dopo essersi tolto le bretelle, se le è gettate alle spalle. Peccato però che una è atterrata sul mio viso. Tutto è successo nel giro di pochi attimi e, prima che potessi accorgermene, mi ha colpito pochi centimetri sopra l'occhio. A quel punto - chiude la Swank - abbiamo dovuto sospendere le riprese perché avevo bisogno di essere medicata. Mi hanno dato tre punti, ma il giorno dopo ero già pronta a girare. Certo, non è stato il finale sexy che il regista si aspettava da noi".

arielcips6/2/2008, 14:21
Un'altra splendida intervista a gerry,in cui spiega come ha costruito il personaggio di 'gerry kennedy'...dimostrando ancora una volta una intelligenza e una sensibilità degne di tanta ammirazione...

http://www.thetimes.co.za/

Macho man Gerard Butler is playing a dead hubbie whose letters help his wife get back on track. By Tom Long.

Actors with a CV like Gerard Butler don't really expect to land a leading role in a heartbreaking chick flick such as P.S. I Love You. This guy fought dragons in Reign of Fire, lurked in the shadows in The Phantom of the Opera and in 300 he and his Spartan warriors built actual mounds of corpses.

So how did Mr Macho in his leather thong become the tender husband who, just before his untimely death, writes 10 letters that he hopes will guide his grieving widow (Hilary Swank) into her new life without him?

"An action movie is all-encompassing," Butler says. "You're surrounded by it; explosions, gunfire, and it's really cool, but while I'm doing it, I'm telling myself I definitely don't want to do this kind of stuff forever. It's hard work, and I miss the chance to sit down and do scenes where you're just having a regular conversation.

"I want to have some sexy time, you know, and be able to experience all the parts of my psyche and my life, and to get into all the different areas, you know."

That's why P. S. I Love You appealed to Butler. "I had to ask myself tough questions. After somebody dies, is it a good idea to still be getting letters from them? Was this guy leaving his wife a blessing or a curse? Letters like that can be like a curse, a crutch that keeps you in the past and traps you in your grief.

"There's a lot of negative potential in the story and I had to find a positive result. It came when I stopped thinking about what he did and focused on why he did it. He wants to help his wife get through the coming grief. What a beautiful gift to give somebody! That realisation dictated the way I played the role," says Butler.

"I made a decision to stay out of that 'leading man head space' we actors sometimes get into. I'm not a diva. I think I'm down to earth, but when you're playing the title role in a film, you can't help but get caught up in your own head.

"For this movie I thought, 'I'll try the opposite', which was to throw my focus completely onto Hilary. It took all the pressure off me. I felt relaxed and spontaneous. I knew she wasn't out to get me. I wasn't out to get her and we were having fun." — © (2008) New York Times Partner Publication

gemini216/2/2008, 15:48
Ma che doooolceee!!

sabry_aminta6/2/2008, 16:04
molto bello questo articolo,grazie Ariel!E Gerry dice sempre delle cose così belle