Austin Butler’s Most Embarrassing Take

So, what's your take? I don't think it's fair that I've never been invited to a bachelor party.

100% agree. I think that's a damn shame.

Thank you.

You've never been invited to a bachelor party? I've never been invited and it seems like such a fun time.

It is a fun I've I've been to.

Have you been Have you been to a lot? I've been to six.

You look like a guy who've been invited, which means you you think I look fun. You look really fun. You wear your sunglasses subway.

It's so cool. This is the problem about being invited to the bachelor party. I've been invited as a groomsman, but I've never been a best man. Have you given a speech at anybody?

No, I'm not allowed.

You give a really good speech though. I sang a song once.

Would you be my best man? I would love to be your best.

Why do you think you've never been invited to a bachelor party? You seem like a fun guy. I I like to think I'm a fun guy. You look like a classic fun guy in the sense that in the 90s

Yeah. on television there would be like the cool neighbor who lives in the van.

Yeah. I'm the guy who lives in a van.

Yeah. You're the cool van neighbor that like that but not a bully but like maybe used to be a bully. Yeah. Yeah. I was like the bully who now lives in a van.

Were you ever a bully?

You were a bully? No. No. No.

I always like to protect the kids that were bullied in school. Same here.

Did you? Yes.

Yeah. The only times I ever got in fights were over that. Every once in a while I would get bullied, which I just realized. Yeah. cuz I was ESL.

English is a second language. English second language. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

I don't get out much. I've never been invited to imagine.

Well, no. Here's what's crazy though about memory. I was thinking about when I got bullied and I was like, why was I getting bullied? And then I realized, oh, I didn't speak English. Wow.

But I've grown up for

Until what age? Until like I don't know, like five, six.

Where'd you grow up? Uh, Minnesota.

Minnesota? Really? How long were you in Minnesota before you moved to New York? This is my interview, bro.

Oh, you like interview. You're flipping it on me. Well, well, I'm not telling you anything. I'm not telling you anything. This is So, you want to get close to me. I know what you're trying to do. You want to get close to me. Yeah. Butter you up.

Become the best man at my wedding. Exactly. That's what I'm going for.

I'm going to have a bachelor party.

What do What do you think we're going to do? I think we're going to go to Ireland.

I drive around. Me neither. I want to drive around Ireland.

Go to pubs. I love this.

And then I want to drive to Scotland. Okay.

And see Stonehenge with the boys. That's in Scotland. I think it's in Scotland. Is it in Scotland?

It's in It's in Wait, Stonehenge?

Yeah, it's in Scotland. Is it in Scotland?

I've been there. What do you mean you've been there?

I was working in London and uh Yeah, we went on this long walk.

Did you see Stonehenge? Yeah, from across a freeway.

There's a freeway. There's a freeway right there, bro. I don't know. You were probably at like Disneyland's version. You know, I went into this not knowing how what your vibe was going to be.

I thought you were going to be really serious.

Did you?

What did you actually think? I was like, he's probably cool.

But I was like, all right, what movies has he been in? I saw the bike riders. I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I saw the trailer for the new movie. And I was like,

what can I saw Elvis? I was like, what can I gather from this guy? And what I realized is that all of the roles are so different and all of the work is so different that I was like, I really don't know anything about this guy. I think he's a he's just like a serious guy, but I I I don't know. We were kind of talking about it before the camera started rolling. There's a uh I'm I'm really shy.

You're a shy guy.

Yeah. I naturally I'm very shy. And uh the other the other take that we kind of I I I was thinking about was embarrassment is an underexplored emotion.

YES. you know, this idea of embarrassment being the thing that often keeps us from trying new things or or from expressing ourselves and um this or or the fear of embarrassment, the fear of of being judged socially. I think many of men have not done something because

you don't ask the girl out because you're nervous.

Oh, we got to get off.

Oh, okay.

All right. How do How do you handle feeling judged by others? I'm not afraid of embarrassment. And I think that comes from failing. Do you do you get the the feeling or the little bit of uh like the tinge of concern or or you know

I I think I've overcome it. I think I've just fully overcome it.

Yeah.

I just I don't get embarrassed. I really don't. I embarrass myself. I I accept it. But I don't feel embarrassed. Leaving somebody somebody very close to me. I was at a party once and I was I was dancing and and they they said uh embarrassment is an underexplored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself.

And things like that. That's really a good [ __ ] mantra to just go go for it. Like feel that feeling, the fear of cringe and then go out there and do it cuz everything you want is on the other side of that.

I don't know if it's a sensor subject now. There's been so much about the Elvis thing, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Did you ever feel like you were doing too much? Cuz I mean the role was incredible. like you did a

mean while I was filming or afterwards.

No, after and then people were like, "Oh, the voice blah blah blah blah blah." But like I knew that I just was doing my best through the whole thing. And uh but it is I'd be lying if I said that it didn't um when people talk about something as personal as your voice, how it then makes me go, wait, am I not

am I not being authentic? And I I value honesty and authenticity so much. And then and then you start questioning that. But a lot of it is like even when I was doing the movie, I was afraid that people were not going to like it and they were going to think I didn't do a good job. And then you get done with it and they're like, "Oh, you sound too." So

you realize you can't you can't be focusing so much on what other people think. Like just do what you love.

Yeah.

What was the saying again? It was

embarrassment is an underexplored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself.

That's really good. Those are words to live by.

Yeah. Lurman said that. I have a mantra. Uh do what's right right now.

Do what's right right now.

I made that up myself. Good. All right. So, tell me more about that. So, do what's right right now.

Because what happens is people fall into this trap of, okay, so if I do this, then this happens and then this happens and then I'll end up in failure or if I do this and then this doesn't work out and blah blah blah. And people try to like plot all this [ __ ] out,

but you know, the only thing you can do is what the next step.

That's so

like you can have like a goal,

but the steps to get to that goal are often times not the steps that you think they're going to be.

Yeah. Do the next right thing.

Yeah. Do the next right thing. Yeah.

Do what's right right now.

Man, I I can fall into that. Like playing chess in my mind and trying to figure out like, well, this move means that and that means that and I love that. Do what's right right now.

So, the new movie,

it's Darren Aronofsky. I saw Requiem for a Dream when I was 12 or 13. Far too young to see that movie,

but it impacted me a lot. Watching Black Swan. Did you see it young as well?

I saw Young and I was like,

it blows your mind when you

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