{"id":1969000,"date":"2025-08-19T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1969000"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:25:24","slug":"austin-butler-studied-thick-baseball-players-butts-for-new-movie-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/austin-butler-studied-thick-baseball-players-butts-for-new-movie-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler Studied &#8216;Thick&#8217; Baseball Players&#8217; Butts for New Movie Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To play a baseball player in his new movie, <i>Caught Stealing<\/i>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/austin-butler\/\"><strong>Austin Butler<\/strong><\/a> used real-life derri\u00e8re inspiration from some of Major League Baseball\u2019s finest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Butler, 34, explained the whole thing was the idea of the movie\u2019s director, <strong>Darren Aronofsky<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI actually have a whole section of just baseball players\u2019 asses that he would send me,\u201d Butler said in his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/entertainment\/a65608817\/austin-butler-transformation-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Men\u2019s Health<\/i><\/a> cover story, published on Tuesday, August 19. \u201cHe was like, \u2018Look how thick they are!\u2019\u200a\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To prepare for the movie, Butler collaborated with trainer <strong>Beth Lewis<\/strong>, who worked with <strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong> on <i>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/austin-butler-ate-an-edible-before-joining-bad-bunny-on-stage\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/austin-butler-ate-an-edible-before-joining-bad-bunny-on-stage\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Austin Butler Ate an Edible Before Taking the Stage With Bad Bunny<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAustin Butler admitted that he ate a marijuana edible shortly before he joined Caught Stealing costar Bad Bunny on stage at a recent concert. \u201cSomebody gave me an edible right before the show,\u201d the Elvis star, 33, recalled during his Tuesday, August 12, appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. \u201cI thought that was [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Butler also ate a ton of pizza and beer while prepping because he didn\u2019t want to appear too muscular, which wasn\u2019t as fun as it might sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDrinking has never been my thing,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t like the way it makes me feel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Butler weighed 150 pounds when he started training for <i>Caught Stealing<\/i>. Six months later, he was up to 185 pounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve got a whole section of Celine pants that I just can\u2019t even wear anymore,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite his regimented processes, Butler explained he\u2019s actually become less intense about preparing for roles in recent years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor a long time, I felt that it had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken,\u201d he admitted. \u201cRather than just putting parts of yourself away and trying to pretend that they don\u2019t exist, it\u2019s like going into the gross bits of yourself\u00a0 \u2014 going into the bits that you don\u2019t want to look at \u2014 and finding a way of integrating that into the whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Butler earned an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> in 2022\u2019s <i>Elvis<\/i>, but he explained how the whirlwind of the experience left him feeling lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/austin-butler-through-the-years-the-elvis-stars-evolution\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Austin-Butler-Through-the-Years-Nickelodeon-to-Elvis-and-Beyond-01-2025.jpg?crop=0px%2C43px%2C1461px%2C826px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Austin Butler Through the Years: From Nickelodeon Star to Playing Elvis Presley and More\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Austin-Butler-Through-the-Years-Nickelodeon-to-Elvis-and-Beyond-01-2025.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/austin-butler-through-the-years-the-elvis-stars-evolution\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Austin Butler Through the Years: Nickelodeon to \u2018Elvis\u2019 and Beyond<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAustin Butler has come a long way since his Nickelodeon days in the early 2000s \u2014 and fans are taking notice. The California native broke into the entertainment industry in 2005 and instantly became a staple on the kids\u2019 network with roles on both Ned\u2019s Declassified School Survival Guide and Zoey 101. As he continued [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s done, after three years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then it\u2019s like, \u2018Wait, what do I focus on now? What do I read about? What do I watch? What do I like?\u2019 And also, I haven\u2019t talked to my <i>friends<\/i>. \u2018Who do I call?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Over time, Butler said he\u2019s learned to rely on his personal connections outside of work when acting becomes too all-encompassing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere\u2019s something about filming: Everybody tells you what time to show up, they get you dressed, they show you where your mark is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt can be very infantilizing, and it can be very centered on <i>me<\/i>. It feels better when I\u2019m calling a friend and just going, \u2018I don\u2019t need anything from you; I just want to know: Are <i>you<\/i> okay? Can I do anything for <i>you<\/i>?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Caught Stealing<\/i> hits theaters August 29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To play a baseball player in his new movie, Caught Stealing, Austin Butler used real-life derri\u00e8re inspiration from some of Major League Baseball\u2019s finest. Butler, 34, explained the whole thing was the idea of the movie\u2019s director, Darren Aronofsky.\u00a0 \u201cI actually have a whole section of just baseball players\u2019 asses that he would send me,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[317594,24003,21741,24386,21912,21848],"class_list":["post-1969000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-body","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-movies","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Austin-Butler-Studied-Thick-Baseball-Players-Butts-for-New-Movie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}