How Austin Butler broke his rib filming Tom Hanks’ ‘Masters of the Air’
nypost.comtold Variety, “There was a fight scene and yeah, my rib cracked. It hurt and then I had to keep fighting.”“And it hurts for a long time after because every time you breathe, you feel your ribs,” he continued. “But it could have been worse.”The series, now streaming (new episodes out Fridays), is about the US Air Force’s 100th bomb group, which was nicknamed “The Bloody Hundredth” for their high volume of casualties.
They were stationed on the coast of England during the war. Butler stars as Major Gale “Buck” Cleven. The cast also includes “Saltburn’s” Barry Keoghan, “Doctor Who’s” Ncuti Gatwa, Callum Turner and Sawyer Spielberg (Steven’s son). “Masters of the Air” is Butler’s follow up to Baz Luhrmann’s opulent 2022 musical biopic, “Elvis,” which catapulted the former Disney actor to stardom and earned him a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
It also got Butler widely mocked on social media for still having his “Elvis accent,” long after he’d stopped playing the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
During an appearance this week on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Butler said he only had a week between the two projects, so he got a dialect coach to help him ditch his bizarre Tennessee twang. “I was just trying to remember who I was, I was trying to remember what I liked to do.
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