"When I first read it I kept saying, 'This is so sad,' but Joel would say, 'Yes, but it can be sexy.' Somewhere along the way we managed to get both those things in.
He says that his character, who falls for a young diva while haunting the 19th-century version of the Paris Opera House, seemed like a sorrowful one until Schumacher told him that he was missing the point. But I sang, and I am my worst critic, and I thought I had sung terribly, but apparently he liked it, or I wouldn't be here."īutler got the role in the film, which opens in Vancouver on Wednesday (December 22).
And I thought 'He is having a fit,' but then I realized that it was because I was trying to sing it without breathing. "All those things went through my mind, and my leg started shaking, and Simon Lee was playing the piano and he started making this strange noise, this deep breathing noise-' aaaaggh'-and I thought 'What is happening to him?' It was a comedy act with my leg shaking and him making this noise. Suddenly I realized it wasn't an interesting independent production, it was Phantom of the Opera, one of the biggest musicals of all time, and I was singing "Music of the Night", probably one of the most famous songs of all time, one made famous by someone who is not me in front of one of the most famous composers of all time. "So I wasn't nervous until I sat by the piano. "I treated this in my head like an interesting independent production," Butler says in an interview room at a New York hotel. He hired a coach in order to pass the biggest test of his life, an audition in front of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man who created the hit stage play. When director Joel Schumacher told Butler that he might have a shot at playing the title character in his filmed version of The Phantom of the Opera, Butler knew he had to work on his singing skills. Singing in a rock band was just a means to an end. However, it was the part-time job he did to pay his way through school that eventually led to the part of a lifetime. He had been smart enough to finish law school as a backup.
The Scottish actor had taken small roles in films like Timeline and was up for the male lead in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. NEW YORK-Two years ago, Gerard Butler assumed he was doing well for himself-but things were about to get a lot better.
0 kommentar(er)
