Austin Butler Says an Edible Is to Blame for His Viral Dance Moves at Bad Bunny Concert

Austin Butler didn’t expect his dance moves to go viral after attending his Caught Stealing costar Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico residency earlier this month – but now he’s revealing where those moves came from.

During the Tuesday, Aug. 12, episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Butler, 33, revealed how he ended up at his costar’s concert with an edible in his system.

While Bad Bunny (born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio), 31, explained the run of the show to Butler, he shared that he initially thought he and Caught Stealing director Darren Aronofsky were going to be part of the audience and not on a secondary stage.

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Butler said they ended up in a prop house, where Bad Bunny comes and performs during a certain point in his concert. On top of that, Butler says he was given an edible “right before the show.” He initially thought it “was a good idea,” but was quickly proven wrong.

Even though he is an actor, Butler said he doesn’t like attention on him, noting that he doesn’t even like people singing “Happy Birthday” to him.

“So, suddenly I’m on stage with Bad Bunny and the edible is working,” said Butler. “It was wild. So it’s like my brain is in two movies. One is like, ‘Benito and I had lunch earlier in the day, I’m just like, so proud of him.’ ”

“I’m watching him going like, ‘Oh my God, look how much you mean to everyone here.’ I’m like, falling in love with Puerto Rican culture and the dancing and everybody is so sexy and amazing,” he continued. “And then the other part is of me is like, ‘Don’t dance, because you’ll take attention away from him. This is his moment.’ ” 

In the viral video, Butler was caught shimmying to the beat of the music with a smile from ear to ear.

The Elvis star wanted to “hide” but said that the music was “so good,” causing him to do some dancing — just not enough to take attention away from Bad Bunny.

“I ended up just like swaying my hips while crossing my arms,” said Butler.

“For whatever reason, every time I uncrossed my arms, I felt like I was drawing attention to myself. So I was like, ‘This is okay,’ ” he later added while describing his dance moves.

He noted that part of his fear also came from “the Ben Affleck thing at the Grammys where people said he wasn’t having a good time and so you’re like, ‘I don’t want to be the sad guy,’ ” he said, referring to Affleck’s appearance at the 2023 Grammys with Jennifer Lopez. “But you also don’t want to be the guy who’s dancing crazy and drawing attention.”

The clip ended with Fallon sharing that he went through a similar experience when he went to a Harry Styles concert.

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Caught Stealing releases in theaters on Aug. 29.