That started to become, a couple days after putting it on, one of my biggest allies, wearing that costume and feeling so strong, excited, you know, that your body was also an intimidating factor and inspiring factor for your army, as they all were. I kind of became a bit addicted to it or perhaps addicted to the advantages that it was giving me because after a certain point, I never once felt silly or strange standing in my cape. There was always a part of me going, “Okay, am I going to stop doing this?” But I was really kind of happy and surprised that I kept it up. I tried to borrow someone else’s but they wouldn’t give me them. I just do it.ĬS: Were those really your abs in the film?īutler: Yeah, yeah.

And then to do it all in front of green screen, so there’s a way of doing it and a way of talking about it, and as you can see I’m really not good at talking about it. To try and get all those in with a man who really doesn’t talk that much was a challenge. He’s crazy and there’s a fearlessness that borders on insane. There’s an arrogance there, there’s a confidence, there’s a humor, there’s a dryness, there’s a compassion and there’s a certain amount of humanity and then the guy is a nut job. It was that feeling, just that feeling of real inner confidence and yet then you can have fun with the other things because it was actually difficult to suck all that in and let out – he has a lot of things going on. I literally walked around Montreal with my shoulders back, my chest up. And also, that fire is burning inside you and then, you can completely go the opposite way and play it as a guy. Every time I trained, it made me feel more like a Spartan, more like a king, more like I was impressing my men and more like they would be willing to follow me. And even doing a lot of working out just before the takes and constantly doing that. It involves, like for me, I really focused a lot on becoming as big and as strong and as confident in those things as I could possibly be. But at the same time, to only do that and never give him a heart and soul, then the whole thing means nothing. And yet, you know that you have to rise to that element that it goes past even epic and becomes comic book. Gerard Butler: I think that it’s really trying to strike a balance between many things without getting too caught up in the different technical elements because I’ve never come across a character quite as powerful and intense and charismatic as this guy, and as badass. CS/SHH!: How do you approach a character between history and myth?

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