Life is a highway and Austin Butler is going to ride it all night long.
Just two years after narrowly missed out on a Best Actor Oscar, and months after delivering a spine-tingling performance as the haunting Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Part Two, Butler is back in the public eye.
In a leather jacket atop a gleaming hog, the 32-year-old took to brutalist warehouses along the Sydney harbour to promote his new film The Bikeriders.
Not to be confused with Australian blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, The Bikeriders features Hollywood a-lister Tom Hardy burning the rubber and flanked by a swarm of motorcyclists.
Butler plays the charming but volatile Benny, a member of the Chicago outlaw motorcycle gang Vandals MC.
Throughout the run time, Benny is tugged between his old life and his surrogate family as the club of outcasts morphs into a dangerous underworld syndicate.
The film also features Killing Eve's Jodie Comer, The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus and up-and-comer Mike Faist, who is fresh off a promotion tour after starring in Luca Guadagnino's salacious and intoxicating tennis movie Challengers.
The Bikeriders premiered in August but its broader release was delayed by the writers' and actors union strike in 2023.
It will illuminate Australian cinemas from July 4.
