Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz joined Darren Aronofsky for the UK gala of Caught Stealing, his crime caper set in the New York of the late 1990s.
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing held its UK gala premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Tuesday 19 August 2025. Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz, its two leads, joined him on the carpet before the screening.
Born in Anaheim, California, in 1991, Butler started as a background actor on a Nickelodeon school comedy. He spent his twenties in television, with leading parts in The Carrie Diaries and The Shannara Chronicles.
His film breakthrough came as Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis followed in 2022, winning him the BAFTA and the Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Charlie Huston adapted the film from his own 2004 novel. Butler plays Hank Thompson, a former high-school baseball star tending bar in New York, who falls foul of the city’s criminal underworld while minding a neighbour’s pet.
Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber and Vincent D’Onofrio are among the supporting cast. Sony opened the film in British cinemas on 29 August 2025, ten days after the premiere.