GERARD Butler was worried about accepting his role in new movie Law Abiding Citizen — in case people compared him to Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kevin Spacey.
The Scottish actor — who plays a man intent on avenging the deaths of his family in the new thriller movie, which also stars Jamie Foxx — admits he was wary about taking on the role because of inevitable comparisons to the Hollywood legends.
“I was talked out of it a couple of times,” Butler, 39, told Britain’s Empire magazine. “But the fact that people were saying ‘no’ was all the more reason for me to do it. Can you do a romantic comedy, or a musical, and then go into a thriller and really scare the c**p out of people?
“What worries me when you take on a role like this, people will go, ‘ Well, he’s no Kevin Spacey!’ or, ‘Tony Hopkins was much better!’
“But I can’t be affected by projected fear.”
Butler recently admitted that his life is “really boring”.
“I just like to go back home and chill out with friends. It sounds really boring but it’s true,” he said.
“Sometimes I finish a movie and I get used to a certain lifestyle and when that stops I get a bit lost for about a week. ‘No one is bringing me lunch anymore — I’ve gotta go do that myself?’
“I lose the main point of my focus. Often all I want to do is travel and just get the hell outta there. But I’m actually boring really.”
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