Crap, I just noticed this was already posted on
GB.net. Phooey.

Dolores

Tomb Raider Stud's Bad Luck
by Sabrina Rojas Weiss


Get ready to meet the hottest Scottish export
since Ewan! You may not know Gerard Butler's
ruggedly handsome face yet, but after all his
supporting roles in flicks like Reign of Fire, it
looks like 2003 will finally be his big, breakout
year. That is, if his thespian vanity doesn't do
him in.

Butler will star in Michael Crichton's Timeline
this November, and he just landed the title role
in the big-screen Phantom of the Opera. But he
nearly blew his audition to play Angelina Jolie's
traitorous lover in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The
Cradle of Life (opening July 25).

"The screen test, in some ways, was a disaster
from the start," laughs the 33-year-old
ex-lawyer. "I wanted to pump up, because I knew I
was going to be wearing a vest... That morning,
[my trainer and I] literally spent an hour doing
every conceivable press-up imaginable. Then, we
get there, and it was the scene where she walks
into [my prison cell] and I'm doing pull-ups from
the ceiling. But I had no strength left; I could
barely put my arms up!"

Butler's primping habits also tripped him up
another way. "I took a couple of sun baths,
because being dark can make you look like you
have a lot more strength," he says. "So
[director] Jan [de Bont] walks in and says, 'Hey,
you're very dark... Hmmm. Your character has, of
course, been in prison for five years, and it's
snowing outside.'" Oops!


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