Austin Butler went through months of unexplained pain before he discovered the surprising cause. In a recent interview with People, the 34-year-old actor revealed that a tiny shard of glass was stuck in his foot for eight months without him realizing it. The injury occurred while he was traveling during the Dune press tour.
During the chat, Butler was asked if he sustained any injuries while filming his new movie, Caught Stealing, in which he plays a 1990s New York City bartender caught in a violent crime scene. “I was covered in bruises constantly. Every day it was something new,” Butler told the outlet. “I cut my shin open on a metal thing, I had to hop over something.”
His Caught Stealing co-star, Zoe Kravitz, then mentioned his other injury, asking, “Wasn’t there something in your foot for a long time or…?”
The Dune: Part Two actor responded, “That feels dumb when I look back at it. When I was on the Dune press tour, I was in Korea doing all these interviews, and I was in a hotel room and I was walking barefoot. I must’ve stepped on a piece of glass.”
He continued, “But for whatever reason, I thought that it was a nerve thing in my foot. So I just was hobbling around for eight months and then right before we were starting to film [Caught Stealing], I was just pushing through the pain of running.”
Kravitz expressed her shock, saying, “Eight months is so long not to be like, ‘Let me just check this out.'”
