European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 o stars and stripes thursday March go Jinn faces butlers heart physicality show in 300 by Betsy Pickle Scripps Howard news service los Angeles its barely 10 am and Ger Ard Butler is already Giddy from answering questions about his Manly new epic 300 in which 300 spartan warriors valiantly face persian King xerxes and his tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of thermopylae How Cool was that body suit he remarks impish by in his beguiling scottish accent As he warms up to a fresh group of reporters at a Beverly Hills hotel that puts the question about training out of the window Doest it of All the special effects in 300 butlers physique May be the most impressive and its no body suit but if Butler has had his fill of describing the training regimen he went through to Warner Bros actor Gerard Butler in the action drama 300 achieve his ripped Torso and Well defined biceps he certainly is Happy to rave about playing King Leonidas in the stylized epic based on Frank Millers graphic novel i dont want to sound like a wet rag but in actual fact its an Honor Butler gushes it really is an Honor i made certain promises to people before i started give me this role and ill my it i am the Guy for this role one thing that i think i can do Well is keep the strength and the Power almost like youre sucking it in from everywhere around you and i had that element of in sanity which i bring with the scots blood in me in the years since he dropped out of Glasgow University Law school to pursue an acting career Butler 37 has played More than his share of larger Hanife iconic characters from Dracula in Dracula 2000 to the phantom in the phantom of the opera to Beowulf in Beowulf Grendel but he grabbed at the Chance to play the legendary spartan King at the risk of sounding a Little twee if that the word i Felt like it was my destiny to play Leonidas says Butler Ive played this kind of role and yet i knew that id never had a Chance to play it on this kind of platform Butler loved everything the film demanded of him i hate to say this in Case i go on and do 300 no 2 but it did feel like a Swan song in a Way in terms of just giving every thing he says i think i knew after meeting everybody and see ing the look of the film that if dancing1 Champion goes for third win Cheryl Burke two time Champion on abcs dancing with the stars says she Doest feel any pressure to bring Home another Dis Coball trophy As the fourth season premiered monday Burke previously won with celebrity partners Drew Lachey and pm Mitt Smith her new partner is Beverly Hills 90210 Star Ian Ziering Model Campbell starts Community service supermodel Naomi Campbell wearing Black stilettos and slinging combat style boots Over her shoulder traded the catwalk for Community service monday at a sanitation garage to Start a five Day sentence for assaulting her maid for five Days Campbell will push a Broom or mop at the garage to fulfil her sentence of Community service for throwing a cell phone at her maid Over missing jeans rolling Stone donates easement to Georgia rolling stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell has donated nearly 300 acres of his Middle Georgia Hunting preserve to the state As a conserva Tion easement Leavell a noted conservationist is among the first residents to take advantage of a new land conservation tax credit he said he hoped oth ers would follow his Lead to protect More of georgias open space Jolie in Hanoi for new adopted sons visa Angelina Jolie arrived in Hanoi Vietnam on monday to Complete the procedures necessary to take her adopted son Pax Thien Jolie to his new Home in the United states the 31yearold actress dodged reporters on her Way from the air port after flying from to Chi Minh City where she adopted the newest member of her family at an orphanage on the outskirts of the City last week from the associated press there was Ever a film to put your whole heart and soul and physical Ity into this was the one director Zack Snyder who co wrote the script with Kurt Johnstad and Michael b Gordon shot 300 against Green screens and Blue screens in a dormant Montreal Industrial site the land scapes sets except for three that were constructed and Gritty look were created digitally in pos pro auction it looks like nothing youve Ever seen before says Butler though they toll with gusto the spartans in the film Arent As Ruth less As they Are in Millers graphic novel the actor says we had to soften that a Little bit says Butler but to me some times our heroes Leonidas and his men they almost feel like the villains every single dimension of this film had a fresh and different feel and taste to it and what stood out More than anything was the pure toughness and the masculinity of the piece that what i really dug you can do it we can help earn your College degree at Smuc earning a College degree while serving your country at the same time can be 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