Overview

• The disclosure comes in a new Men’s Health cover interview published this week.
• Butler says a severe migraine jolted him awake as the plane landed in Cincinnati, he briefly lost vision, and he thought he was dying.
• He attributes the episode to sleep deprivation, reports his sight returned within minutes, and says he went to set and worked the rest of the day.
• He credits Laura Dern with helping him approach dark roles more healthfully and says Tom Hardy influenced a steadier sleep and recovery routine, including post-shoot workouts, sauna sessions, and cold showers.
• He also recounts a glass fragment later removed from his foot and a virus that put him in the hospital after Elvis, as he recommits to healthier habits; The Bikeriders adapts Danny Lyon’s 1968 photo book about a late-’60s Midwestern motorcycle club.