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Austin Butler says spending time with his “hero” Robert De Niro made him opt not to get high with famous cannabis connoisseur Snoop Dogg.
During a stop on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, the “Elvis” actor was asked for the story behind photos of him and the Oscar winner hanging out at the rapper’s Malibu home in March.
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“That was wild,” he said of the Instagram snapshot posted by Snoop’s son Cordell Broadus.
“A mutual friend said, ‘Do you want to come … have tacos with Snoop Dogg and Robert De Niro?’ and I dropped everything, and I was there in a heartbeat.”
Austin Butler told Jimmy Kimmel on Monday about spending time with Snoop Dogg and his acting “hero” Robert De Niro.Randy Holmes via Getty Images
Host Jimmy Kimmel had to ask Butler if Snoop, a seasoned pot smoker, “offered” him “anything” to toke on during the get-together.
“He had it there,” Butler admitted. “I was so nervous to get too high and try to talk to my hero Robert De Niro, so I refrained.”
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Butler has long talked about his admiration for De Niro.
In a piece for A.frame, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s digital magazine, last year,