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“I’ve definitely found a career that makes me super happy.”
Beau Butler might not have reached the pinnace of success if it weren’t for...Chevy Chase?!
“I went to the Orange County School of the Arts, and you have to audition for it. I prepared two monologues, and did the one where Chevy Chase kind of loses his mind a little bit at the end of Christmas Vacation. It was really funny. That’s one of my favorite movies, and that’s the monologue that did it—I got in.”
He specialized in acting, but it was clear he was a natural already as performing arts ran in his blood: “I’m 99 percent sure my grandma force-fed me so much gay culture cinema that she turned me gay. The first movie I remember loving was The First Wives Club, and she dragged me to see that. She was a go-go girl at The Whiskey...she loves to dance.”
Butler needed to escape Orange County, signing with an acting agency his senior year and quickly moving to Los Angeles.
“Pretty much right away I was in the nightclubs, under age, doing cocaine and all that. I kept it really manageable while I was auditioning and going to school, and then at some point or another, it became super unmanageable,” he says. “I moved back to Orange County because they have good treatment centers there. I went into treatment, got sober, worked a 12-step program, and then got into behavioral health. I’ll be five years sober in February.”
Butler was running an entire facility when the pandemic hit and he was laid off. His next job was “soul-crushing” and had him looking for a new path in life. On a trip to a nude San Diego beach in August of 2020, he saw two men filming sex—and the light bulb went off. He got to work and quickly found himself signed as a Falcon|NakedSword exclusive.
“I’ve definitely found a career that makes me super happy. I’ve definitely found my family in this industry. I get to work with all these amazing directors,” he says. “I fan girl over Falcon and Raging Stallion, and it’s cool because the directors fan girl over it, too. We’re all blown away that this is our jobs.”
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