Austin Butler sacrificed skin and hair to bring Darren Aronofsky’s film Caught stealing to life.
In the crime comedy, Butler Hank Thompson, a former baseball player who became a bartender who gets involved in a dangerous situation when he sees a neighbor’s cat.
“There is a moment when I skip a counter and I hit my tibia,” he said Entertainment weekly. “I cut my tibia open on a metal thing that was on the other side, a metal cabinet or something. This sharp piece of metal was there. So I cut myself open.”
The Oscar-nominated star also suffered other injuries and bruises.
“They hung me out of a six-story window in East Village all day on one arm,” he revealed. “It sensed me a little. You take hits, but it all adds the feeling of … I look back on playing pretending like a kid, and I loved making it feel as real as possible. I would dig holes in dirt in the backyard just to feel that gravel of it. It felt like this.”
Due to a plot point in the film, Butler also had to shave his hair into a Mohawk.
“It was liberating,” the Dune 2 Said Star.
“At first, I felt restraint over to shave my head into a Mohawk because I didn’t know what it would look like and my own feelings about what it would be,” he shared.
“When you shave your head for the first time, the physical feeling of the hair follicle is a great feeling,” Austin added.
Next to Austin Butler, Caught stealing Stars also Zoe Kraviz, asked Bunny. The movie is at cinemas now.
