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Austin Butler Details Motorcycle Accident While Filming ‘The Bikeriders’

‘All I was thinking about was the bike, though,’ the actor said in a new interview.

“We were doing a night shoot and hit a patch of wet leaves, and I went down,” Austin told PEOPLE in an interview published on Tuesday, June 18. While speaking to the publication at the Monday, June 17, premiere of his movie in Los Angeles, the Oscar nominee noted, “All I was thinking about was the bike, though. Since he’s now one of Hollywood’s biggest names, some fans want to see Austin take on a role in the Pirates of the Caribbean reboot, to which the actor recently told Entertainment Tonight would be “a hard one to touch” because of the foundation that Johnny Depp built in the franchise.

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