Gerard Butler is nothing if not an incredibly diverse actor. He is also a lawyer, if that tells you anything at all about his duplicity. Yet I digress.

In just the past few years, Butler has taken up the title role in The Phantom of the Opera as well as the bloodthirsty King Leonidas in 300, a man who unwittingly loves a tranny in P.S. I Love You, a guinea pig for Guy Ritchie in RocknRolla, and an unfortunate love interest of Katherine Heigl in The Ugly Truth. Also, Gerard has stepped rather (un)enthusiastically into the adventure of Nim’s Island, as you can see in the above and below photos. I’m not quite sure what he’s doing to Jodie Foster, but she’d be crazy not to like it.

Seriously, we get it dude — you have range — especially when you play a character with an Irish brogue while unashamedly maintaining your obvious Scottish burr. Not that I, uh, possessed the willpower to bitch too much about it while watching you prance around in shamrock-adorned boxer shorts with suspenders.

Finally, Gerard Butler “has launched the production shingle Evil Twins with his longtime manager, Alan Siegel.” His first role?

Their first project is the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen, which the duo are producing for Mark Gill, Neil Sacker and Robert Katz’s the Film Department. Butler will star as a successful assistant D.A. who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system.

It sounds like someone might finally be using their legal education for a bona fide purpose. Maybe I should look into that sort of thing.

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