Austin Butler Shares Why He Was Drawn to Role In 'Caught Stealing'

Austin Butler can pretty much pick any role he wants these days, so why was he drawn to new film 'Caught Stealing'? The actor shares with Ryan Seacrest he was influenced by two iconic films back in the day. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Austin Butler with us.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you, Austin, Ryan Seacrest, how you doing? Man?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Please just say it. The voice, it's so signature, so much.
By the way, the trail. We've seen the trailer. I
know it's coming. We have not seen it. Can't wait
to see it. Looks fantastic, looks fun thrilling, funny as well.
That buddy in this with you and you were up
on Did I see in Puerto Rico up on stage
with him?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I was, I was.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
You and Darren Aronofsky were both up on that stage.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Huh yeah, yeah, Daran was getting his boogie on. It was.
I love to see the dance.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
After all the accolades and the success of what you
recently did in terms of movies in Elvis, everything starts
to come your way. Maybe there's a different kind of
flow come in your way of opportunities, different things to
look at. How did you decide what made you decide
to do Cott Stealing? Which I think the character is
so fun for you to play from my view, and
it seems like a fun movie to shoot too.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I really I've been wanting to work with Dan
for a long time, and then he came to me
with this script, and he said, hey, you want He've
been wanting to make movies like like we had in
the seventies. Like there's a great movie called After Hours.
It's a Scorsese film where it's it takes place all
in one night and it's just this nightmare. Whether it's
where this regular guy gets thrust into this this nightmare

(01:17):
situation and you're just watching him try to do his
best as as he's just thrust into chaos, and and
so films like that. The Big Lebowski is another one
kind of like that. You know, it's this guy just
thrust into this situation. And so that's that's what the
film is essentially, And I'm just thrust into chaos.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
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Speaker 2 (02:01):
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