GERARD BUTLER TALKS CANNES, UPCOMING PROJECTS

(21 May 2012) GERARD BUTLER'S ON A YACHT AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, WHERE HE WON'T BE WATCHING ANY MOVIES
Gerard Butler is at Cannes Film Festival, but he's avoiding the famous red carpeted stairs.
I have film meetings or press conferences, but I don't have a movie showing. When you don't have a movie showing, it's kind of hard to be going to see other movies. You can't really go down other people's press lines. So you've always got to make sure you are playing it politically correct," he admits.
The Scottish actor was sitting on a yacht in the Rivera harbor Sunday (20 MAY 2012), to chat about his upcoming revenge thriller, "Motor City."
Butler is excited to "beef up" for the action role.
"I haven't done a full out action movie since, I may be forgetting myself, but since 'Gamer.' It was '300' then 'Gamer' and that was a few years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong. If anybody cares, people are like, 'Oh I've never seen any of your movies before.'"
"Recently I've just done a couple movies - one is a soccer film," he continues.
"I can't believe I just said 'soccer,' that's like forgetting your mothers name or something saying 'soccer', but it's because I'm so used to speaking about this in America. If I say 'football' people are like 'What are you saying? Football? American Football?' So a movie where I was a professional football player, soccer player and then another one where I was a surfer, so they all required additional training."
In the meantime he's playing around on boats, sheltering from the rain and doing some charity work.
"Also I was doing some work with Artists for Peace and Justice, and Sean Penn did a charity function for Haiti. When you come to Cannes you cram in a few things in a few short days," he explains.
And he won't be seeing any of the movies premiering at the Palais, in case he upstages other actors.
"So often when I'm here I'm busy, I don't get a chance to embark in the festival itself. That's easier to do at other festivals than Cannes, which is kind of a bummer actually," Butler concludes.
"Motor City" will be directed by Albert Hughes, and co-stars Gary Oldman - it starts shooting in September.

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