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Austin Butler Broke a Rib While Shooting ‘Masters of the Air,’ but He ‘Had to Keep Fighting’: ‘It Was an Honor to Play These Men’


Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Gary Goetzman speak to Variety about the making of Apple's World War II epic 'Masters of the Air.'

Just a week after wrapping on Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” biopic, Austin Butler arrived in the U.K. to start work on Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ epic World War II drama “ Masters of the Air.” He was joined on the Amblin and Playtone co-production by a cast who, like Butler, are poised to become the next generation of Hollywood leading actors, among them Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Anthony Boyle, Ncuti Gatwa and Nate Mann. As well as numerous white knuckle aerial battles (and subsequent crashes), the 10-month shoot included scenes set in prisoner of war (POW) camps and forced marches at gunpoint through arctic temperatures.

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