Gerard Butler wins at the box office – but not with Jennifer Aniston

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That was fast! Just last night was the Paris premiere of Bounty Hunter, and Gerard and Jennifer are already in Berlin. This is some whirlwind European promotion. Anyway, I love what Jennifer is wearing to this Berlin photo call. Great cut on the grey pencil skirt, beautiful casual white sweater. She should dress like this all of the time. Much better than the hot pink Lacroix scrunchie-mullet dress. And since the skirt is so tight, it’s probably harder for Gerard to jam up a finger up there. Of course, he could always just go up the skirt.

Meanwhile, Gerard scored a big box office victory over the weekend – but it wasn’t with Bounty Hunter, which dropped to fourth place with a $12.4 million take, and continuously dismal reviews. No, Gerard won big with How To Train Your Dragon, the animated film Butler did voice work for. Dragon won the weekend with $43 million, a pretty good take. Gerard recently spoke about how “overexposed” he feels, and what a relief it was to do a cartoon:

GERARD Butler finds it “weird” seeing his face on billboards and buses.

The actor — who stars opposite Jennifer Aniston in recent box office flop The Bounty Hunter – says he feels a little overexposed, which is why his role in animated movie How To Train Your Dragon is his perfect next project.

“I do admit that it’s gotten a little weird seeing my mug everywhere,” says Gerard. “I have my face on posters and buses and I don’t need it on everything. It’s been a pleasure to go behind the scenes and be just the voice of a character. It’s good to lie low for a while.”

Gerard, 40, recently admitted he feels like an “outsider” in Hollywood.

“I know who I am,” he said. “Outside I’m very happy but I don’t always feel like an insider, absolutely not. Even with things on the inside I often manage to hit myself in the head.

“I often have to do that with my roles. You spend a lot of time kind of pushing yourself more to the edges where you are different than were you are the same.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

Last Friday, Agent Bedhead published her career assessment of Gerard, and it wasn’t too good. She criticized him (on target, I believe) for the horrible romantic comedies and for squandering the opportunity to become the next Bruce Willis, the next action star. Of course, I do think that Gerard is a half-decent actor, and he should be doing more work like RockNRolla, Dear Frankie and 300. He should be building a career based on action, drama and ensemble films rather than try to force us to accept him as a romantic lead. Hopefully someone is sitting down with Gerard and giving him better advice.

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Jennifer and Gerard in Berlin on March 29, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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  1. bite me says:

    hmmm. i don’t like the way gerry wear his pants

  2. lucy2 says:

    I’m starting to think he’s playing the PR game too. I don’t really buy that he wants to lay low, he’s been everywhere for a while now, and it seems like he’s enjoying it.

    Both of them need to pick better roles, IMO. I know this sort of stuff is lucrative, but mix it up a bit.

  3. snowball says:

    I want her watch.

    She always wears those loopy shoes though. Ick. And I wonder how she sits down in that skirt, as awesome as it looks.

  4. e.non says:

    ah, come on. show the photo with him sticking his finger up her ass while standing there for the paps.

    butler’s a friggin pig.

  5. Spanxx says:

    Jenny girl, A+ on the hot secretary look. And Gerry… oh, Gerry. You are just a hot, nasty mess and I love it.

    At least they didn’t get a shot of him smelling his finger afterward.

  6. teri says:

    I was shocked to see that picture on TMZ too of Gerard sticking two middle fingers up her dark side. Wow really tasteless. But she’s supposed to be hurt and still yearning for Brad, yeah right. All the while playing the poor me victim role she’s been having the time of her life.

  7. teri says:

    Viewing the pictures again where is his hand? OMG, never mind.

  8. Lilias says:

    This is the first time I’m seeing the loopy shoes and I love them. The whole outfit is really cute-including that watch.

    And she looks very soft and pretty-though slightly uncomfortable posing on her own. I wonder why.

  9. mslewis says:

    I like her outfit too, until the shoes!!! I’m not even going to comment on the finger!! I do appreciate that they are promoting this bomb to death overseas. They are doing what they need to do to squeeze as much money as possible out of this turnip. Very professional.

    Yes, that cartoon is #1 at the BO but all the critics are saying it’s a “disappointment” because it is at the 3D theatres and they charged so much that if you take those screens away, the movie actually made about $10M less. Besides that, the movie cost $165M to film. So, in real numbers, Gerry is in another bomb!! (Just kidding, really. I didn’t even know he was voicing this cartoon!!)

    P.S.: I totally agree with Agent Bedhead.

  10. Trillion says:

    It depresses me that this movie is popular. Oh well. What was I expecting?

  11. the truth says:

    why would you let a man stick his finger in your ass in public,

  12. Mihaela says:

    This guy is losing weight and looking better and better…

  13. snowball says:

    They only have a teeny tiny sample of it, but Go Fug Yourself’s blog has a sample of Jennifer Aniston’s footwear (pick her from the list on the right) and almost all of her sandals are of the twisty, loopy variety.

    I don’t know how she manages to get them all from different designers, but she does. 🙂

  14. Cheyenne says:

    I like the shoes. Love the skirt. Looks like a stretch wool/silk blend; easy to sit down in.

  15. Wilz says:

    I really dig his hair like this! It makes him look younger.

  16. celandine says:

    Playing devil’s advocate for a moment – The Bounty Hunter only dropped 40% from the first weekend to the second, which is actually a very creditable result, thus demonstrating that a). Word of mouth on TBH isn’t THAT bad and b). People will go and see a Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston film despite s***eous reviews.

  17. Sue says:

    Jen looks great in these pictures and guess what!– thin girls can sit down in tight skirts. You must have some real thrunder thights on you if you can’t sit in a tight skirt. Stick to your pull up pants.

  18. ThunderC*nt says:

    They need to switch chins. Her chin belongs on a man & his weak chin belongs on a woman.

  19. moo says:

    the truth:
    March 29th, 2010 at 1:11 pm why would you let a man stick his finger in your ass in public,

    What else was she supposed to do with the PUBLIC standing around watching???? Slap him???? oh yeah….

    Why is everyone defending this complete SLEEZEBAG and downing on Aniston???

    WHAT ELSE WAS SHE TO DO????

  20. Tara says:

    not relevant, but still funny.
    i found this on idontlikeyouinthatway.com …

    “Since no man in their right mind would willingly impregnate her, Jennifer Aniston has begun the process of adopting a baby boy. Star Magazine reports:

    Star has learned that 40-year-old Jen has already started the paperwork with an agency in California and is planning to take home a baby boy. “She doesn’t want to wait,” says a friend. “Her best friends all have kids, and Jen sees how much motherhood changed their lives for the best,” says the source. “She’s dying to have that!” Jen has already started planning a $250,000 nursery at her home in Beverly Hills, and has even picked out her nanny. Unlike Angie, she wants a baby from the USA.

    God, this poor kid. Until he’s 15, he’ll be required by law to be stuck with her needy ass. He’s gonna eat dinner every night next to a cardboard cutout of Brad Pitt in the chair next to him and Aniston in a wedding dress. “Tell daddy about your day,” Aniston will say. “Maybe if you’re a good boy, mommy and daddy will take you to the movies, because you’re mommy’s precious boy and no woman will love you as much as me and when you wake up in the middle of the night and I’m standing over you it’s because I just love you so much and that time I looked through your window at school it’s because I wanted to see if you were thinking about me because I think about you, do you think about me too? Your kindergarten teacher said you were special but I think she wants to take you away from mommy, but sometimes people go to sleep and don’t wake up, will you be sad if your teacher did that? Oh, don’t cry, handsome boy. When you grow up, you and mommy can get married because we love each other sooo much and then….” *it just rambles on like that for a while*”

  21. Mairead says:

    Aww their outfits co-ordinate, how, er, “sweet”

    I will say that he does look less cauliflower-headed with a beard though.

    EDIT – oooooh nice watch on JA!
    But what the heck is up with the ends of her hair – I think she went for that 3-month blowdry/ Brazilian Keratin Treatment or something like it and it fried the hell out of her hair, as it’s been looking very bitty recently and doesn’t have the volume and bounce it used to have – like most thick curly/wavy hair when blowdried straight.

    I’m pretty sure it’s the case because she issued some lie about her hair not being very high-maintenance and just 5 minutes after a shower and she’s done. Jenny love, all of us with thick curly/wavy hair knows that’s utter wadscollop. Don’t try to con a conman love.

  22. tara says:

    what counts as offensive, people ???

  23. EG says:

    Aniston should be assessing her crap films. Gerard shoudln’t make any more films with her.

  24. Sugar & Spice says:

    Finally, she is dressing her age and dressing appropriately!

  25. oh_dear says:

    With regards to his fingers in her bum while posing…..

    Did anyone else see that piece where Bulldog handlers fondle their dogs in the same way during a show?!

    Maybe Butler picked up some tips for these press junkets?

  26. Cheyenne says:

    @Tara: Oh puh-leeeeze, that is about the fourth or fifth adoption rumor the tabs have put out since the Big Breakup. It ain’t happening.

  27. Lilias says:

    Tara: If this were true, as all other accounts of her being pregnant/adopting, she’d have, at the very least, 20 children by now.

    It’s not even funny anymore, it’s just stupid.

  28. Ash says:

    How To Train Your Dragon was AWESOME.

  29. JenWind says:

    I saw Bounty Hunter and it was a fun movie. Light and easy to follow, great movie to just sit and laugh at, great way to clear your head after a hard day and just relax. Not every movie you see has to be oscar worthy…

  30. Lukie says:

    After seeing that *ahem* fingerinthebum photo, I am completely convinced they are you-know-whatin’ each other.

    The way he did that was just not something a woman allows a man to do just for the sake of publicity.

    Unless, of course, she is that bitter on being the “nice girl” next to Jessica “sexual-napalm” Simpson. then everything I just said is out the window….

  31. Lia says:

    Jen looks great, but she needs to cover up those God-awful toes/claws.

  32. p3rp3tu4 says:

    Spontaneous O!

  33. nana says:

    not a nice photo of her

  34. Amy says:

    I love her sense of style.Jen is a glamorous woman.

  35. jojo says:

    # 20, TARA,

    Please stop envying Jen and go get a life! *s****e

  36. pumak says:

    LOVE HER