Were you surprised when they first came to you with this? Paul Fischer: But with The Phantom, you also had the danger of stepping into Michael Crawford's shoes in the role he is so closely identified with. I'm not good at working, working it and than technically try and make something I instinctively feel.
The same with 'Dear Frankie' when I read that script, I thought can I be so wrong? If this is so moving and profound to me than surely if I could in a simple way, and never more than in 'Dear Frankie,' you know I know this guy. It's a much more exciting prospect, because if something moves me I'm no different than anyone else. When I connect with something, I already imagine myself playing that role and I knew the direction and the feeling I could give it. I read the script fortunately before I ever saw the stage play, therefore it was completely fresh to me when I saw Joel's interpretation, which is obviously so much more emotionally complex. It's very entertaining and at the end quite moving. Gerard Butler: That's a disconnect I had with the stage play as well even though I loved it. How important was that element that we got to know what drove the Phantom? Paul Fischer: The movie goes far more into the background of the character than stage play. If you try to sympathize and realize why he's bad and does the things he does an audience can connect with that and sympathize with that character. Not just to be bad to be bad and to be entertaining, but be bad and try to. I just know that when I read a script that I fascinating and I love taking a claim into the darkness of the soul, but I just don't know how to explain it. Gerard Butler: I probably should have thought about this because it's quite a common question. Paul Fischer: What's the fun of playing these iconic characters? You've done Dracula, Beowulf and now this? It just goes to show you that it can be one character you take, one movie that somebody sees something that inspires them.
Gerard Butler: There were six films in the cinema and he'd seen all of them, so he said, "Oh, shit, we might as well go see 'Dracula.' He tells me the story anyway. Paul Fischer: You must be very thankful for "Dracula 2000" if you believe the press notes, apparently was that movie that Joel Schumacher saw. Also to be seen in Dear Frankie and Beowulf, Gerard Butler is a star on the rise, but a modest one, who talked to PAUL FISCHER in New York., Dashing, witty and masculine, Butler seems the perfect phantom in the screen version of Phantom of the Opera. Gerard Butler/The Phantom of the Opera Interview by Paul Fischer in New York.Gerard Butler has much to be thankful for, Dracula 2000 for one.
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