‘Motorcycles are a part of me now’ — actors Jodie Comer and Austin Butler on new gang movie The Bikeriders

They may be playing outlaws on-screen, but the duo share an approach to acting that’s decidedly softer

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Chris Wasser

Austin Butler was made for the movies. Jodie Comer, too. They’ll tell you a similar story: there was the life before these cool, charismatic souls discovered performing, and the one after. Acting changed everything. It made them feel as if they’d finally found their voice, their purpose, their tribe even — and there was no going back.

“A 100pc,” nods Butler, 32, his voice low, his charm electric, “because my parents had tried to put me in sports, they tried to put me in all these different, you know, ‘groups’. I was very, very shy. I’d come home crying from baseball, I just didn’t want to be around other children, I didn’t want to go over to friends’ houses. I was such a homebody. I just wanted to play the guitar by myself in my room.