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Austin Butlerwants to take to the skies!
“I would love to,” the actor tells PEOPLE of learning to fly at Wednesday’sMasters of the Airpremiere at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles.
“I’m rusty now but I feel like I could,” Butler, 32, adds of the flying skills he picked up during filming.
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Tom HanksandSteven Spielbergalso worked on the miniseries as executive producers and Butler tells PEOPLE it was a “pleasure” working with Hanks, 67.
“He approaches everything with such care and kindness and he does so much research and is just constantly reading about this period,” Butler says. “It’s a pleasure working with him, whether he’s in front of the camera or behind.”
Another of Butler’s costars,Barry Keoghan, 31, has also recently opened up about how the actors kept themselves entertained on the set of the historical drama.
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“I learned him how to box,” Dublin-born Keoghan toldGQearlier this month ofteaching theElvisstar some tricks. And according to Keoghan, Butler was “pretty good" at sparring.
The Irish star also shared with the outlet that being cast inMasters of the Airallowed him to realize a long-held dream.
InMasters of the Air, Butler playspilot Major Gale Cleven(a.k.a. Buck), who’s part of the 100th Bomb Group in the U.S. Air Force. Nicknamed the “Bloody Hundredth,” the unit took part in numerous “perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany” as they faced “frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air,” according to the official synopsis.
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Atrailer released on Dec.6teased the dramatic action and emotional tone of the series, with Major John Egan (Callum Turner) telling his men that they are responsible for “35 planes and 350 air crew men." At another point, he states that the 100th Bomb Group has been deployed “straight into Hitler’s territory” in “the largest air armada ever assembled in the history of mankind.”
Along with Butler, Keoghan and Turner,Sawyer Spielberg, Nate Mann,Rafferty Law, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook andNcuti Gatwaalso feature in the series.
source: people.com
