One of the reasons that enthusiasm levels for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders have been diminished all along is Austin Butler’s relentless, extremely off-putting chain-smoking. Nothing looks cheaper or pollutes an actor’s presence like smelly nicotine sticks. Marlon Brando knew this territory like the back of his hand, and never lit up in The Wild One.
HE to Butler: Never, ever go there again.
Note: “Austin Tucker” was a political consultant of an assisted liberal politician in The Parallax View (‘74).
