In each younger man’s life, there comes a time when he should be taught what Pearl Jam’s identify means. For Oscar-nominated actor Austin Butler, that point was throughout a Nineties trivia consuming recreation along with his Caught Stealing co-star Zoë Kravitz.
“It’s jizz, dude,” Kravitz bluntly explains in a brand new video for Rolling Stone. (Although as the sport’s moderator, RS movie critic David Worry, factors out, legend additionally has it that “Pearl Jam” was a hallucinogenic, peyote-laced concoction Eddie Vedder’s great-grandmother used to make.)
This Pearl Jam/jizz/peyote digression happens after a gap Nineties trivia query about grunge frontmen. The sport itself is impressed by Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming movie, Caught Stealing, a criminal offense thriller centered round a burned-out ex-baseball participant (Butler) who winds up embroiled within the prison underworld of Nineties New York Metropolis.
In between questions on Nineties cultural touchstones like Associates, Area Jam, Beavis and Butthead, the Spice Ladies, and Sir-Combine-A-Lot — throughout which Kravitz racks up loads of factors and Butler downs loads of pictures — the pair additionally discusses engaged on Caught Stealing. They chat in regards to the Nineties artists they listened to on set (Portishead, Large Assault, Bjök, Radiohead, Alanis Morissette); Butler remembers some function prep he did as a bartender; and each he and Kravitz rave about working with co-star Dangerous Bunny.
“He stunned me with how humorous he was,” Butler says. “He was ready. He was additionally recreation for something.”
“And he takes dangers,” Kravitz provides. “He made some actual character selections, which is courageous.”
Elsewhere, the 2 additionally share a few of their most formative New York Metropolis reminiscences. Kravitz remembers sneaking out of her highschool throughout lunch to go smoke weed in Central Park, in addition to visiting the storied punk outlets on St. Marks Place again “when St. Marks was not Pinkberry,” she quips.
And Butler remembers transferring to NYC proper earlier than Hurricane Sandy and talks about what it was like watching his neighborhood come collectively whereas residing with out energy for 2 weeks after the storm. “Really feeling the power of New York and the way it comes collectively round these occasions, that the group bands collectively,” he says. “It was stunning to see folks feeding different folks. Eating places needed to cook dinner their meals as a result of they didn’t have fridges that had been working. We had been having barbecues out on the road, and I felt welcomed into New York at the moment.”
