Gerard Butler was an Edinburgh lawyer in training until he got fired sometime in the mid-1990s.
In the above Vanity Fair interview Butler explains how from there he just moved to London to try his hand at acting. Somehow, he managed to talk his way into an audition for a Shakespeare stage production and everything kind of rolled on from there, including earning a role in a stage adaption of Trainspotting.
To watch the interview just click the play button at the left of the feature image above.
The first film he auditioned for, and subsequently got a role in, was 1997’s Mrs. Brown which starred Judi Dench and Billy Connolly.
In his interview Butler also talks about his experiences in movies such as Phantom of the Opera, 300, P.S. I Love You, Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen and his latest Greenland which he says is a film ‘that has it all’.
Interestingly, Butler admits that through much of his career he felt like a ‘total Imposter.’
Watch Butler below in one of his most famous scenes from the film 300.