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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
Arriving at the new island, Odysseus and a scouting party find a cave full of sheep and kill one for food. The sheep's owner, the Cyclops Polyphemus, angrily emerges and threatens to eat the men as revenge. Odysseus attempts to reason with him and offers the Cyclops some Greek wine as payment for the sheep. Polyphemus accepts the gift and asks Odysseus for his name, which he claims to be "Nobody". Polyphemus drinks the wine before deciding to attack the men anyway. Odysseus rallies his men to fight against Polyphemus, until the Cyclops retrieves a massive club that allows him to slaughter several men, including Polites, before suddenly passing out. Odysseus reveals that he drugged the wine with lotus fruit he took from the lotus-eaters, and he tells his men to fight on in the memory of their dead comrades. Using their swords, they sharpen Polyphemus's club into a spear and impale the sleeping Cyclops through his eye. His screams of pain attract other Cyclopes, who disregard him when Polyphemus says that "Nobody" attacked him. Odysseus and the surviving men then steal the sheep and escape, but Athena appears once again, angry that he didn't finish the job by killing Polyphemus. Odysseus ignores her, instead revealing his true name to the Cyclops in an act of hubris before escaping. Athena and Odysseus argue over his decision to spare Polyphemus, ultimately ending their connection.
