It\u2019s easy to fall in love with Austin Butler. He\u2019s got dashing blue eyes, perfectly quaffed hair, and is the king of direct eye contact. And with two movies out this year\u2014Eddington and Caught Stealing\u2014plus more on the horizon, he clearly has a schedule as intense as his stare. <\/p>\n
Caught Stealing, out today, is yet another bullet on his already impressive resum\u00e9. In the film, which also stars Zo\u00eb Kravitz and is directed by Darren Aronofsky, Butler plays Henry Thompson, a former baseball player who finds himself tangled up in the New York City crime world.<\/p>\n
He previously played Elvis in the biopic of the same name, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; next came The Bikeriders and the cult-favorite Dune: Part Two. Earlier this year, Butler had a role in A24\u2019s Western comedy\/thriller Eddington. When we meet, he has just finished filming Enemies, another A24 crime saga, opposite Jeremy Allen White in Chicago. And he somehow also found the time to star in a recent campaign for YSL Beauty\u2019s MYSLF fragrance.
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<\/p>\nNicolas Prado\/YSL Beauty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Below, he shares his secrets for surviving night shoots, names his best-smelling co-star, and stresses the importance of loving yourself. <\/p>\n I remember talking to Priscilla about Elvis wearing cologne. So I think he would probably smell good. Feyd-Rautha from Dune would probably smell like tar and gunpowder. Benny from The Bikeriders\u2026you know, I also like the smell of gasoline. I know it\u2019s probably bad for me to smell it. Grease and gasoline, they each have their thing. Find me just smelling the fumes.<\/p>\n Jeremy Allen White and I just did this movie together [the A24 spy thriller Enemies]. He does smell good. I don\u2019t know what he wears, but it\u2019s the combination of a beautiful scent and the smell of fresh cigarettes. <\/p>\n Nicolas Prado\/YSL Beauty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Chicago is a beautiful city. It really has a big-city feeling, but then at the same time, it feels like a small town. I feel jet-lagged right now, because I\u2019m used to staying up all night and sleeping all day for the last month and a half. Your circadian rhythm is all off. <\/p>\n I bought blackout curtains for the windows and had a white noise machine to drown out the sound of the sirens outside. But I found that when I got home and the sun was just rising, my body would go, \u201cOkay, it\u2019s time to wake up.\u201d So then I\u2019d end up wanting to eat and then watch a movie or something. I wouldn\u2019t go to sleep until eight or nine in the morning.<\/p>\n I\u2019m a fan of woody scents, but this also has more subtle floral notes, particularly the orange blossom. I grew up in Orange County, California, with an orange tree in my backyard, so the smell of orange blossoms brings me back. That\u2019s the personal connection for me. The people who designed the scent told me stories of Yves Saint Laurent himself in Morocco, and there are all these orange trees around there, too.<\/p>\n The smell of water on the grass and a Slip \u2019N Slide. It just brings me right back to vivid memories of hot summers growing up, slipping around in the front yard.<\/p>\n I was too shy as a kid to actually play team sports. They tried to put me in baseball, and I came home crying. I said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be around those other kids.\u201d I used to go to Angels games with my parents as a kid. Then I moved to L.A. in my early adolescence, and we had the Dodgers. I have such happy memories of going and getting a Dodger Dog, sitting in the stands with my mom. We were always in the seats that were really far back. I loved that.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been learning over time. It\u2019s hard being a person [laughs]. Figuring out ways of loving yourself is very important. I try to remain curious and open, and to not be too rigid. I\u2019m curious about other people. So that\u2019s taking this question off of myself, but [I like my] curiosity.<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019re in the fragrance game now. Which character of yours would smell the best? The worst?<\/h2>\n
Who has been your best-smelling co-star?<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nYou\u2019ve been doing night shoots in Chicago for Enemies. Was it hard to adjust to that schedule?<\/h2>\n
What do you love about YSL Beauty\u2019s Myslf Absolu fragrance?<\/h2>\n
What other scents from your childhood stay with you?<\/h2>\n
In Caught Stealing, you play a former high school baseball player. How much did you know about the sport before that?<\/h2>\n
What do you love about yourself?<\/h2>\n
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