Overview

• Butler says Darren Aronofsky sent reference photos of baseball players’ backsides to guide a glute-focused build for his 1998 New York crime caper role.
• He trained with Beth Lewis and emphasized heavy hip thrusts, targeting a thicker lower body to match a former ballplayer’s frame.
• To portray a bartender with a drinking problem, he added pizza and beer to his regimen, noting he dislikes alcohol despite using it to soften a too-toned look.
• The six-month program raised his weight from about 150 to 185 pounds, a change he says left a stack of Celine pants unwearable.
• On set, he recounts a headbutt from costar Nikita Kukushkin that nearly cracked a rib and table slams with Bad Bunny, doing many sequences himself as the film premieres and begins a global cinema rollout in late August.