Posted by Adam

Thursday July 23, 2009

Gerard Butler has once again addressed rumors he’s dating his The Bounty costar Jennifer Aniston.

The Scottish actor joked to Parade magazine that he fancies marrying the former Friends actress.

“Conan [O'Brien] asked me about Aniston, who is my co-star in the movie I’m making now, and I just said, ‘Yeah, we’re getting married. What the hell.’ Tell a joke, that’s my technique,” Butler told the mag. “But, I’m careful to also say that I’m marrying Cameron Diaz and maybe Joan Rivers.

“I like to tell everyone I’m going to be a busy guy. I learned as a kid how to stay out of trouble: make it funny.

“The second someone makes something up, you’re stuck with it. If you deny it, people think, ‘The lady doth protest too much.’ So I’ve discovered you have to embrace the rumor. Take it all the way just to kind of show how ridiculous the whole thing is. Mike, my character, would probably say, ‘Just tell them it’s true.’ So I learned something from him.”

On starring alongside Katherine Heigl in new movie The Ugly Truth, Butler said, “Oh, just because we went back to our trailer and made out after the dancing scene? Truthfully, one time I was supposed to play with Katherine’s hair and I kept forgetting my lines. I was so nervous that I grabbed her breast. Afterwards, all I could do is say ‘I’m sorry.’ Yeah.”

“I’m not the same as my character [in The Ugly Truth], but I agree with the idea behind the movie,” Butler adds. “Men like naughty women. But if we could meet somewhere in the middle, that we all have a bit of naughtiness but a niceness as well. No doubt about it, I always had this line from when I was younger, ‘There’s nothing like a bad ass to make a girl’s heart beat faster.’ I think it holds very true. But, at the end of the day, that’s only going to last so long. If you’re going to get into a full-blown relationship, there has to be something more to sustain it and enrich it.”

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