Posted by Adam

Thursday July 23, 2009

Gerard Butler got his role in new movie The Ugly Truth because of his penchant for telling dirty jokes.

The Scottish hunk admits if he hadn’t been so ready to tell his rude ditties he would still be playing mean and moody roles.

“One of the main reasons I ended up doing The Ugly Truth was that I was doing an action movie where I play very dark and brooding. At night, I would go to dinner with the guys from Lakeshore (Entertainment), and I would tell dirty jokes and be vulgar, and they kept going, ‘You should do The Ugly Truth.’ I had never read the script and, finally, I read it and I went, ‘Okay, I get it’.”

Butler, 39, recently revealed that he makes late-night trips to the fridge.

“My late-night pigging-out binges,” he said of his worst habits.

“I went to my fridge the other day and was so angry there was no bread.

“I called my assistant and said, ‘What happened to the bread?’ “She said, ‘Your trainer told me to take it!’”

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