Austin Butler has some unhealthy luck with bees.
Butler, 34, was posing for pictures with Caught Stealing costar Zoë Kravitz and director Darren Aronofsky on the pink carpet on the London premiere of their movie on Tuesday, August 19, when two bees swarmed across the trio, as seen in video footage shared by The New York Post. Kravitz, 36, seemed to be startled by the bugs and initially tried to wave them away. Nonetheless, when one of many bees refused to go away them alone, Kravitz rotated and walked away.
Kravitz returned to the carpet shortly thereafter to pose with Butler, however the bee was nonetheless there. Images confirmed the Elvis star attempting to shoo the bee and protect Kravitz from the bug. Ultimately, it appeared to fly away.
Butler beforehand went viral in Might for a clip of an analogous incident with a bee that concerned him and Eddington costars Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone. The trio had been strolling the pink carpet collectively on the Cannes Movie Pageant in France when a bumblebee started to terrorize Stone, 36.
To play a baseball participant in his new film, Caught Stealing, Austin Butler used real-life derrière inspiration from a few of Main League Baseball’s best. Butler, 34, defined the entire thing was the concept of the film’s director, Darren Aronofsky. “I even have a complete part of simply baseball gamers’ asses that he would ship me,” […]
In a video of the second shared by Selection, Butler seemed to be blowing the bee in Stone’s route as he tried to get it away from him. Nonetheless, he insisted throughout an August 12 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that he was solely attempting to rescue his costar.
“Some issues simply occur, and also you don’t actually notice what’s taking place within the second,” Butler stated. “[Emma] stated, ‘Bee, bee, bee!’ After which I look, and there’s truly a bumblebee that’s attacking. … After which Pedro begins laughing, after which I began blowing the bee away. That was my response.”
Zoe Kravitz, Austin Butler Karwai Tang/Getty Pictures
He defined, “I didn’t need to harm the bee. But it surely sort of appears like I’m blowing the bee at her. … I used to be doing my finest to attempt to get the bee to simply playfully get away.”
Wanting again on the viral pictures from the incident on the pink carpet, Butler stated, “How humorous is that?”
Stone, 36, additionally addressed their bee assault throughout a June look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!
Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal EPA-EFE/SEBASTIEN NOGIER / POOL
“He’s a sweetheart and a half — there isn’t a approach he needed that bee in my face,” she instructed visitor host Diego Luna. “He was attempting to blow it behind me!”
Luna, 45, joked, “I feel [Austin] introduced the bee,” to which Stone quipped, “I virtually assure you, if anybody introduced the bee, it was Pedro. … He most likely unleashed that bee.”
