It was a demanding role that required the actor to sing most of his lines. He immediately dove into the river and saved the youth from drowning, winning a Certificate of Bravery from the Royal Humane Society as an example of his courage and caring.Īfter acting in a series of largely forgettable films, in 2003, Butler finally got his break with the role of the Phantom in Joel Schumacher's on-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Phantom of the Opera. During the film's shooting, he was picnicking with his mother near a river and heard screaming from a boy who was in trouble. Brown and also scored a small part in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. Making the transition from the stage to the screen, in 1997 Butler starred with Judi Dench and Billy Connolly in Mrs. It was suddenly knowing I could go out and have a life of traveling, craziness, adventure, partying, women, and all the other things that go with that-including a sense of abandonment."
"Something very compulsive and dark and lusty and pleasurable but damaging took over. Like many other new graduates, Butler decided to take a year off to travel abroad, and his ventures soon landed him in Venice, California, where he indulged in the high life: "This is when things started to go a little crazy," he later said. During his time in university, Butler was also the president of the law society and graduated with honors. There was Sean Connery, and that was it." Though he claims he is "not the most academic of guys," Butler graduated near the top of his high school class and enrolled in the University of Glasgow, where he studied to become a lawyer and solicitor. "I was a 16-year-old kid on the other side of the world from where they made movies," he later said. Despite his love for theater and film, Butler was anxious to please his family and believed that acting was not a realistic career choice for him.
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