Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutCaught Stealing. Austin Butlerlost skin and hair to makeCaught Stealingcome to life. InDarren Aronofsky's new film, now in theaters, the Oscar nominee plays Hank Thompson, a former baseball player turned bartender who finds himself in the middle of dangerous circumstances after agreeing to watch his neighbor's cat. Hank is beaten to within an inch of his life, even losing a kidney in the process, before going on the run. In the process, Butler sustained some injuries of his own (though no organs were lost during the making of this movie). One of his worst, though, didn't even come about in a fight scene. "There's a moment where I jump over a counter, and I hit my shin," he tellsEntertainment Weekly."I cut my shin open, on a metal thing that was on the other side, a metal cabinet or something. This sharp metal piece was there. So, I cut myself open." Niko Tavernise/Columbia Butler also came home with bruises most days from various fights, chases, and other stunts. "They hung me out of a six-story window in the East Village all day on one arm," he explains. "That bruised me up a bit. You take hits, but it all adds to the feeling of... I look back to playing pretend as a kid, and I used to love to make it feel as real as possible. I would dig holes in the dirt in the backyard just to feel the grit of it. It felt like that here." In the name of that realism, Butler also shaved his head for the film's conclusion. After his neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), returns and then dies, Hank devises a way out, assuming Russ' identity and shaving his head into Russ' signature mohawk. Sony "It was liberating," Butler says of cutting off his hair. "At first, I felt reticence toward shaving my head into a mohawk because I had no idea what it would look like and my own feelings around what that was going to be. I didn't know what that was going to feel like, but once I shaved it, it was incredibly liberating. When you shave your head for the first time, the physical feeling of the hair follicle is an amazing sensation." Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. Butler filmed the scene at the end of the shoot, so he could wait to cut his hair until it was necessary. When they wrapped the film on a beach in Mexico, he took things a step further to celebrate. "I shaved it all off, and Darren and I jumped in the ocean in Tulum," he says. "It was a symbolic way of ending. We floated in the ocean for a couple of hours." Niko Tavernise/Columbia Pictures Butler shared previously with EW thata headbutt move in that initial beating scene almost broke his ribs. "I get beaten up by these two Russians in this film," Butler explained. "This one — Nikita, who's a short king — he's got so much power. When he was kicking me, he didn't want to kick me very hard. He felt bad. And I kept telling him, 'Just kick me. Just kick me harder.'" "So he starts really laying into me and kicking me hard, but then he had this idea of headbutting me in the side, like a little ram or something," he said. "And he did it so hard it almost cracked my rib with his head! I was very impressed." Caught Stealingis in theaters now. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly