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Gerard Butler Breaks Down His Career, from ‘300’ to ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ | Vanity Fair

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October 7, 2020

Gerard Butler takes us through his action-packed career, breaking down his roles in ‘Mrs. Brown,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ ‘300,’ ‘P.S. I Love You,’ ‘Law Abiding Citizen,’ ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ and ‘Greenland.’

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Brandon Steel

October 7, 2020 at 5:12 pm

Gerald butler as the next wolverine or Lobo.

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Harvey Pooka

October 7, 2020 at 5:13 pm

Where’s 2004’s Dear Frankie? Such a lovely little film.

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IAmWacks

October 7, 2020 at 5:13 pm

Why did they skip Den of Thieves?!

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Pyukumuku ‘-‘

October 7, 2020 at 5:15 pm

6:07 for me it sure did. It made me love musicals, buy the original book, fall in love with the overture, teach myself to sing , join the theater department at my school.
And i couldn’t help but connect with the feeling of loneliness and constant rejection.
Guess it was worth the effort in that case 🙂

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krysta thirteenth

October 7, 2020 at 5:18 pm

“I’m not one to make alot of noise”
*Peaks the mic every couple of minutes yelling*

Lmao love him and his passion though, he WAS leonidas.

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Cinefreek Productions

October 7, 2020 at 5:18 pm

No Rocknrolla?!!? Even GQ left that movie out in his break down. Ugh…

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I am an honest advisor to you

October 7, 2020 at 5:19 pm

Have you ever heard the Qur’an the word of God ???https://youtu.be/dgiUnb76rpk😅😘😘😘😘😘😘❤❤❤💖💖💖💖💖💖❤

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Katie

October 7, 2020 at 5:20 pm

Wow. He has hands like shovels..

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Holly Heaviside

October 7, 2020 at 5:21 pm

What a charming and down to earth fellow.

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Redmed427x

October 7, 2020 at 5:23 pm

This fine man is NOT on the Epstein list. God bless his soul.

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Dan Black

October 7, 2020 at 5:53 pm

_Phantom_ was awesome. I know there’s a faction that doesn’t like it, but I think that’s mainly the hardcore Broadway crowd that thinks the only way to see it is live on Broadway (even though most of them actually haven’t), and they will never, ever, ever be satisfied with any movie version, even a recording of the Broadway cast themselves. For the rest of us, I thought it was an excellent movie version, and I love the singing and everything else they did with the movie.

_P.S. I Love You_ is one of the very best romantic movies ever. I _don’t_ have a personal connection story like the ones he describes, and it’s still one of the most emotional, touching movies I’ve seen.

I also saw that _How to Train Your Dragon_ was on the timeline, even though he didn’t discuss it. I love that series, too. The voice acting in those is good in general, but Gerard Butler is really great in it. Stoick is such a fun voice and character with surprising depth; I’m betting and hoping he has a blast doing that.

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HIGHTS

October 7, 2020 at 5:55 pm

Crazy when he said that he feels like an impostor. Such a successful guy and what a human thing to say

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Cady Virina

October 7, 2020 at 5:57 pm

I actually LOVE Phantom of the Opera! You got 1 person loving that movie!

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- Alissa 19
  
  October 7, 2020 at 6:51 pm
  
  2 people !!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
  
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NorthObsidianG

October 7, 2020 at 6:12 pm

What got me was the part where he said he had to beg and scrap by. It broke my heart at first but it was then put back together seeing how much greatness he did.

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Elizabeth Latorre

October 7, 2020 at 6:22 pm

Huge fan since Phantom of the Opera

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Raven Azima

October 7, 2020 at 6:25 pm

Эээх, какой же он красивый был, призрак оперы, спартанец😘😘

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Andrea C.I.C.

October 7, 2020 at 6:31 pm

I remember when I went to the cinema to watch The Grudge (horror film), and the 1st minutes I regret it, so my mom and I sneaked out and got in the next room, where fortunately, was playing The Phantom of the Opera. Was the best movie mistake ever, we loved that movie so much, and loved the feelings in Gerald’s singing, so passionately and sincere. I still watch it whenever I can.

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Carly Richardson

October 7, 2020 at 6:42 pm

He is aging like FINE wine

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DANG3R DAN3

October 7, 2020 at 6:44 pm

I look at Olympus Has Fallen as the real Die Hard 5.

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steve conn

October 7, 2020 at 6:53 pm

He really came back with Den of Thieves. Solid heist film.

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Wendy Kennedy

October 7, 2020 at 7:14 pm

Awwww gerard u are one lovely 😍 💖 💗 💕 ❤ man 🔥

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LaraLove Minky

October 7, 2020 at 7:25 pm

This man is everything

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J. Ward

October 7, 2020 at 7:29 pm

Between 300 and law abiding I can’t decide which is my all time fave!

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Ryuko Matoi

October 7, 2020 at 7:36 pm

Tony Goldwyn plz!

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Patricia Sanders

October 7, 2020 at 7:42 pm

Love his movies, wonderful actor, thank you for not staying in LAW!!!HAHAHA😅😅😅😅

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