Austin Butler’s New Favorite Word Seems to Be ‘Scouser’

Given how many interviews happen during a press tour, it’s normal for an actor promoting a new film to do a little recycling. Maybe you’ll hear them repeat the same thing about their parents, or a funny moment on set, or the 100 people that could be in a room. While promoting his new movie The Bikeriders, out now, Austin Butler already seems to have found a new favorite word: “Scouser,” which refers to someone from Liverpool. As recently as a June 18 interview with MTV, Butler had his co-star Jodie Comer, who is from Liverpool, giggling on camera because he didn’t know what the term meant. “Is Scouse a town in Liverpool?” he asked. (It’s not, it’s the name of a dish that’s associated with the city.) Now that Butler’s in the know, though, he’s been saying “Scouser” so much that we’ve already got an early compilation.

On Capital FM, Butler says he’s kept calling Comer a Scouser “every day” since learning the word. He smoothly slips “Scouser” in on LADbible TV when he and Comer are discussing the Beatles. In an interview with The Hook, he nods along as Comer manifests that their next acting project together is a gritty drama set in Liverpool so that he can play a Scouser and try out the accent. He even adds that having some “sick clobber” (clothes) would be “boss” (brilliant). Oh, so he’s picking up slang now, too? By the time he and Comer make it to The Kelly Clarkson Show on June 21, Butler has evolved into a translator, clarifying that when Comer mentions a “gas hob,” she means a stovetop. “I speak Scouse,” Butler quips with a smile and nod. He spent three years prepping to assume his Elvis accent, but it only took him three days to get this confident? Yeah, someone write him a script where he can play a Scouser, stat.

Austin just being so proud of knowing what a Scouser is now.???? He will never forget that word.#jodiecomer #austinbutler pic.twitter.com/MZ2T0awK3s

— SwantjeS (@Swantjeki) June 21, 2024

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