Hollywood’s golden boy on what drew him to latest ‘raw and vulnerable role’
Austin Butler appears to have the golden touch in Hollywood right now. Photo: PA
In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker Darren Aronofsky could be found spray-painting stencils of the pi symbol all over his native Manhattan – a bit of guerrilla marketing for his feature debut, π (or Pi).
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, little Austin Butler was a creative seven year old with an allergy to people. He’d play GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 when he wasn’t being shoehorned into after-school softball tournaments by his parents. “I’d come home crying,” Butler said. “I didn’t want to be around other kids.”
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