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Gerard Butler Goofs Around At 'Machine Gun Preacher' Premiere (VIDEO)

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The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 12/09/11 17:03 BST Updated: 12/11/11 10:12 GMT

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Keen to give his adoring fans what they wanted, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler played up to the cameras at the Toronto Film Festival red carpet yesterday.

Butler could have been mistaken for attending a comedy premiere, as he saluted the crowd and stuck his tongue out at the paps.

In fact, he was promoting Machine Gun Preacher, the moving real-life tale of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who saved hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children in Sudan.

The world premiere of the film kept audience members rooted to their seats.

This has been a labour of love for Butler, who made a fraction of his regular salary to play Childers. Speaking to journalists on the red carpet, he said he was “completely enlightened and profoundly moved” by the film.

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Keen to give his adoring fans what they wanted, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler played up to the cameras at the Toronto Film Festival red carpet yesterday. Butler could have been mistaken for att...
Keen to give his adoring fans what they wanted, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler played up to the cameras at the Toronto Film Festival red carpet yesterday. Butler could have been mistaken for att...
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01:06 AM on 09/18/2011
Gerry Butler is a fine actor who infuses his characters with a lot of emotional depth. We always feel his pain and the consequences of his actions when he portrays a character. That is something that is often missing in movies today...a lot of killing and violence with little depth of feeling or the pain of the consequences.

For him to go to Africa and use his abilities to shed light on the horrors happening there every day is important, and he shouldn't have to shy away from admitting that the movie may have a message. Bravo for him and the producers and the movie...especially because if it just might send a clear message about things our sanitized, sensationalized media ignores.
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