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Alex Pettyfer Cast as Pivotal Character in 'The Butler'


Lee Daniels' "The Butler" adds one more actor to the list. "Magic Mike" star Alex Pettyfer is joining the star-studded movie in the role of Thomas Westphall which has a pivotal influence on Forest Whitaker's Eugene Allen and the rest of the character's life. 

Based on Wil Haygood's Washington Post "A Butler Well Served by This Election", the movie has had stellar cast ensemble including Jane Fonda playing Nancy Reagan. There will also be Oprah Winfrey, Minka Kelly, Cuba Gooding Jr.,Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, David Oyelowo and Alan Rickman. Meanwhile,Vanessa Redgrave is still in talks to join. 

The pic revolves around Eugene Allen, a black man who served as a White House butler for 34 years. Allen started at the White House as a "pantry man" in 1952 when blacks weren't allowed to use public restrooms in his native Virginia. He ended up serving eight presidents and had a unique front row seat as political and racial history was being made, from the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Jr. 

Filming will start in mid-July in New Orleans. 

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Still hot, tbh.

And for anyone interested in more info on this film, IMDB has a whole slew of actors listed including someone I think is a current ONTD fave (Jesse Williams). Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan just boggles my mind.
The original article by Wil Haygood for the Washington Post is entitled "A Butler Well Served by this Election." All the things Eugene Allen must have seen...the people he must have met....wow.

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flumes 5th-Jul-2012 06:49 am (UTC)
oh man in magic mike he had me dying and not as in i was aroused as in that was painful
schwarze_pferd 5th-Jul-2012 06:51 am (UTC)
Давайте дружить, обамки!

Edited at 2012-07-05 06:51 am (UTC)
derrobitch 5th-Jul-2012 07:23 am (UTC)
lol what's with all the russian comments on ontd lately
fancycarousel 5th-Jul-2012 07:32 am (UTC)
mte, odd
taecish 5th-Jul-2012 11:32 am (UTC)
sometimes i get random comments on very old journal entries in russian it's a conspiracy
kwikimart 5th-Jul-2012 05:30 pm (UTC)
Да, конечно, почему бы и нет!
whiskybars 5th-Jul-2012 06:51 am (UTC)
i have the most irrational hate @ this child, there's something about his square-shaped face that really bothers me
flumes 5th-Jul-2012 07:29 am (UTC)
i feel u. cant stand him and his jank tattoos and inability to move the lower half of his body correctly as he dances in front of a mirror and gyrates while matthew mcconaughey is wearing short shorts and a tank top behind him















(i saw magic mike and it hurt me)
w_human 5th-Jul-2012 09:22 am (UTC)
Согласен. Ебло у него, как кирпич.
ragdoll246 5th-Jul-2012 07:58 pm (UTC)
lol truth
tundra1800 5th-Jul-2012 07:04 am (UTC)
I was totally on board with disliking him for being a douche and then I heard him in an interview. The whole english accent thing makes it a lot harder to dislike him.
Plus he's really obnoxiously attractive
imkevinspacey 5th-Jul-2012 07:23 am (UTC)
There are many attractive people with English accents, don't settle.
actxappalledx 5th-Jul-2012 07:06 am (UTC)
I don't really care for him, but he looks good in that picture
imkevinspacey 5th-Jul-2012 07:21 am (UTC)
Stop giving him work.
clockspiders 5th-Jul-2012 07:24 am (UTC)
Oh god, all I saw was "Alex Pettyfer Cast as Pivotal Character..." and I atomically assumed it was going to be about Finnick. I was ready to be royally pissed off.
lovedhurtlost 5th-Jul-2012 09:50 am (UTC)
I'd love him as Finnick, tbh.
chaquitalicia04 5th-Jul-2012 07:44 am (UTC)
The 3 names in the tags= I shall see this.
ultrageekery 5th-Jul-2012 08:07 am (UTC)
Am I the only teenage girl who doesn't like this guy at. flipping. ALL?
lovedhurtlost 5th-Jul-2012 09:51 am (UTC)
Yup, the only. There are no others.
imnotasquirrel 5th-Jul-2012 01:02 pm (UTC)
dude, have you *been* in any of the other ontd posts about this douche?

granted, i'm not sure how many of the posters are teenagers - i'm not - but trust me, your dislike is nothing new.
gramfaernes 5th-Jul-2012 03:03 pm (UTC)
I'm not a teenager, but I can't stand him either.
megedeborch 5th-Jul-2012 08:09 am (UTC)
I approve of all this hate & dislike, more Alex for me tbh.
audrey 5th-Jul-2012 08:17 am (UTC)
really hope this is a movie about a guy getting sentenced to be jerry seinfeld's butler because he has no insurance.
minalskare 5th-Jul-2012 02:57 pm (UTC)
lol oh god i hope so
barbarbarian 5th-Jul-2012 05:27 pm (UTC)
Ever notice a lot of butlers are named Jeeves?

saltireflower 5th-Jul-2012 09:02 am (UTC)
Ugh no
clockspiders 5th-Jul-2012 09:08 am (UTC)
"There will also be Oprah Winfrey, Minka Kelly, Cuba Gooding Jr.,Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, David Oyelowo and Alan Rickman. Meanwhile,Vanessa Redgrave is still in talks to join."

One of these things is not like the other....

shining_starsxx 5th-Jul-2012 01:11 pm (UTC)
Lol
luvthatdrtywata 5th-Jul-2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
lol, this was my EXACT thought. literally.
w_human 5th-Jul-2012 09:23 am (UTC)
Кто это???
nalty7 5th-Jul-2012 09:54 am (UTC)
это алекс петтифер.это актёр.
w_human 5th-Jul-2012 09:57 am (UTC)
Лешка в общем.
А в каком театре играет?
groffiswin 5th-Jul-2012 09:51 am (UTC)
here for Jesse Williams
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