![]() I filed his name away in my mental Rolodex, waiting for him to do something for which he’d get noticed. Brown, the BBC drama Little White Lies, and the title roles in Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000 and the miniseries Attila. Scottish actor, whose notable credits included playing Billy Connolly’s brother in Mrs. I went home and looked him up on the Internet. When I went in to pay my bill, I asked the clerk behind the counter to get me that coffee that was way, way up high on the top shelf, and while he was distracted I rifled through the AmEx receipts before I found what I was sure was the mysterious stranger’s. “But he’s definitely a hottie,” she said. After he’d left, I asked his waitress who he was. We stared at him for a few minutes until she was called away. I finally snagged my harried waitress and pointed him out. ![]() This guy had an aura, a larger-than-life quality that you don’t often see. Handsome? Oh, yes–he was a Sean Penn-Aidan Quinn mix, with a little of Gil Bellows’s dark, brooding sexiness thrown in. in Los Angeles, when I noticed a guy a few tables away, sipping tea and reading the paper. Last year I was sitting having coffee on Larchmont Blvd. But here he was a few years prior in the August 2003 issue of Movieline magazine talking up Phantom and Tomb Raider 2. Speaking only for myself, I didn’t take notice of the Scottish actor untill he went all Spartan in 300. If anyone knew who Gerard Butler was when he was cast in the movie version of The Phant om of the Opera, I imagine there would have been protests along the lines of Tom Cruise as Lestat or Michael Keaton as Batman.
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