The Daily Record
July 17, 2003

GERARD BUTLER knows he's more famous in America than he is in his native Scotland - and that's just how he likes it. But a kiss with Angelina Jolie in next month's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - which will premiere this Monday at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA - will change all that. And beating Antonio Banderas and Michael Crawford to play the Phantom in the long awaited movie version of musical, The Phantom of the Opera will make him as big a box office draw as fellow Scots Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott or Robbie Coltrane. Gerard, 33, said: "Everybody in Scotland keeps saying: `Who is this Gerard Butler? They keep saying he's doing well in Hollywood.' But I'm hard to recognise.