Gerard Butler says that it was an 'honour' to work on his latest movie Chasing Mavericks.
The actor is back on the big screen with the Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson directed movie and he reveals that it was the power and the emotion of the script that really drew him to the movie.
Speaking to MTV News the actor said: "I love to be able to produce, especially if it's a project that you really believe in, and this was very much a passion project for me.
"When you're producing, you have a chance to get even more involved and have more of a say in the creative process at all levels actually, that's what got me about it.
"But from the second I got the script and I read it, one, it's a very powerful and emotional and inspiring story, but two, it really dives into the psyche and the danger and the courage in the sport of surfing and that was something I'd never really seen before in a major feature film.
"I thought, I want to be part of telling that story. It would be an honour for me to step in there and really try and represent what goes on in the mind and heart of a big-wave surfer."
Chasing Mavericks will be the first time we have seen Butler in a movie since Coriolanus at the beginning of the year.
But the actor has been incredibly busy as he has also completed work on Playing For keeps and Movies 43.
He is currently working on Olympus Has Fallen and he will once again be lending his voice to the character of Stoick the Vast in How To Train Your Dragon 2.
Chasing Mavericks is released 2nd November.
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