Features / Entertainment Gerard Butler’s big exposure By Sunday Post January 28, 2018, 10:05 am Gerard Butler (Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up GERARD BUTLER has revealed how an advert for Polaroid cameras gave him a shot at being a film star. He had quit his job as a trainee lawyer only a week before qualifying to follow his dream. But after his first London stage role folded, he was left unemployed and in debt. Then he auditioned for a television advertisement. He said: “I went for a commercial for Polaroid. I landed it and I think it paid something like £10,000 which was more money than I could imagine. “That figure was pretty much what I earned in my first year training as a lawyer. Just one commercial effectively paid me a whole year’s wages. “Suddenly, life looked different.” Enjoy the convenience of having The Sunday Post delivered as a digital ePaper straight to your smartphone, tablet or computer. Subscribe for only £5.49 a month and enjoy all the benefits of the printed paper as a digital replica. Subscribe More from The Sunday Post Publisher says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ in 2016 race Huw Edwards: Former BBC flagship presenter’s four decades at the corporation First seven jurors chosen for Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial More potential jurors dismissed as Trump’s hush money trial enters second day