SPOILER WARNING: The next article incorporates spoilers for Caught Stealing. When you’ve got not but seen the movie, proceed at your individual threat!
All through Caught Stealing, Austin Butler’s Hank Thompson makes an everyday behavior of calling his mother to ensure she know that he’s okay, and along with being a candy side of the film that provides to Hank as a personality, it additionally units up a tremendous cameo. Whereas we by no means see who the protagonist is speaking to on the opposite facet of the road, the actress is revealed within the movie’s finish credit score sequence, and it seems to be none apart from the fantastic Laura Dern.
It is a terrific shock on the finish of Caught Stealing – however there’s a fantastic bonus shock to be found as properly. It seems that whereas they’ve by no means beforehand been in a film or TV present collectively, Austin Butler and Laura Dern have been mates for years, and that helped lay the groundwork for the latter taking part in the previous’s mother within the new 2025 film. CinemaBlend’s Hannah Saulic requested in regards to the particular cameo whereas interviewing Darren Aronofsky earlier this month throughout the Los Angeles press day for the movie, and he defined the previous connection between the 2 actors:
Austin and Laura are mates, and I am mates with Laura, and really, Austin felt… I feel there was like a connection between Laura and Austin’s mother in a sure method. And, so it simply type of all made sense.
It is excellent casting in all respects. Within the film, Hank has no one nearer to him in his life than his mother, regardless that she lives 3,000 miles away in California. They speak on a regular basis and have a connection not solely as mom and son however as die-hard followers of the San Francisco Giants. Whereas Laura Dern is rarely proven whereas she is on the cellphone, the Caught Stealing mid-credits sequence sees her obtain a package deal from her son within the mail that incorporates tens of millions of {dollars} in money.
After studying in regards to the particular connection between Austin Butler and the Jurassic Park star, Hannah adopted up by asking the actor in regards to the relationship when she had the prospect to speak with him throughout the press day (the place he was paired with co-star Zoë Kravitz), and he defined how she has been a beautiful a part of his life in the previous few years. Stated Butler,
She’s the loveliest human being on the planet. She’s so maternal and comforting and sensible. And so we might have conversations about life and the inventive course of, and she or he’s simply been this angel determine in my life.
In recent times, Austin Butler has spoken about the truth that his mom handed away from most cancers in 2014, when he was 23 years outdated, and it had an comprehensible emotional impression on him. In his time attending to know Laura Dern, he has discovered a particular relationship, and he talked about in our Caught Stealing interview that Dern even bodily reminds him of his mother. He and Zoë Kravitz had a candy back-and-forth about it, as captured within the video on the prime of this text:
- Austin Butler: My mom used to at all times be instructed she appears to be like like Laura Dern.
- Zoë Kravitz Actually?
- Austin Butler: Yeah.
- Zoë Kravitz: Aww, man.
- Austin Butler: So when anyone would speak to my mother, they’d say, “You realize, you look identical to Laura Dern.”
- Zoë Kravitz: That’s loopy!
- Austin Butler: Is not that wild?
- Zoë Kravitz: Yeah.
- Austin Butler: So all these years later, I bought to really inform that to Laura. And now she’s like this, like, pseudo mother to me
- Zoë Kravitz: Aw, I really like that.
It provides a terrific further layer to what’s already a fantastic cameo in an excellent enjoyable film (as I element in my Caught Stealing CinemaBlend evaluation).
Tailored from the e-book of the identical title by Charlie Huston and in addition starring Matt Smith, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Regina King, Griffin Dunne, Liev Schreiber, and Vincent D’Onofrio, Caught Stealing is now taking part in in theaters in all places.