Opening on Friday is “P.S. I Love You,” the new dramedy starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Here’s the synopsis:

Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart, and married to the love of her life—a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler).  So when Gerry’s life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. But before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief but in rediscovering herself.  The first message arrives on Holly’s 30th birthday in the form of a cake and, to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to order her to get out and “celebrate herself.”  In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way: P.S. I Love You.

With Gerry’s words as her guide, Holly embarks on a touching, exciting and often hilarious journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into new beginning for life.

So to help promote the movie, I was able to participate in roundtable interviews with a lot of the cast and the one below is with King Leonidas… I mean Gerard Butler.

During our roundtable interview Gerard covered a range of subjects – from all the success he’s been having to all the projects he might have coming up. If you’re a fan of Gerard you’ll definitely like this interview. And even though I already posted some of the "Watchmen" quotes a few weeks back, I figured you might want to read the rest of the interview.

As always, you can either read the transcript below or download the audio as an MP3 by clicking here. And if you missed the movie clips I previously posted, you can watch them here.

“P.S. I Love You” opens this Friday at theaters everywhere.

Q: Can you tell me how challenging the opening battle sequence on this film was compared with the 300?

Gerard Butler: Well, there were less troops to rally, although sometimes I think rallying myself is more difficult than rallying other people. This scene’s a real mixture because on the one hand we had great chemistry together, and a lot of things fell into place immediately, I was amazed how we played off each other, but on the other side of that, this has got to be one of the longest opening scenes in a modern movie. It’s like 15 minutes long, and to try and keep that going and justify that length of scene, because your average scene is two minutes maybe, this was ridiculous, so to try and keep it with actions, and movement and emotion and mood and tempo, to allow it to be that long without getting bored, that was the challenge. That was much more finessing. And then to do that and still keep it natural and keep that spark and that chemistry that we had alive and fresh, that was a challenge.

Q: Did you talk to any widowers in researching this film?

Gerard Butler: Well, I know a few including my mom. I think I have enough experience of that through people I know and myself that I – did I actively seek it out? No, but I wasn’t the widower so in a way it’s kind of irrelevant to me.

Q: When do you think it’s the right time to get back into the dating game when you’ve lost someone?

Gerard Butler: (he laughs) Well, my moral opinion on this is – when is the right time to get back into it, I don’t know, I’ve never been in that situation and I think that it probably depends on the person. There’s a friend of my mom’s who died who had the most amazing relationship with her husband, they were one of the most incredible marriages and he married within six months of her dying, which was kind of a little weird, but everybody else who understood that in a way that he was just filling it with a friend, and yet with other people it would be five, ten years, I think it just depends on the person, you can’t ever have a rule for that.

Q: We know you sing, but you had to play guitar for this – did you actually fall asleep standing in front of a mirror.

Gerard Butler: I did, I did, but that was the heroin though.  It wasn’t heroin by the way, but actually think it was an Ambien but I was playing – I’m obsessive, right, and I’m not a guitar player and I often found the best way to describe for me trying to learn to play the guitar and sing a song and then act in any way, I could never do all three. I could do two, yeah, I could only do two. I could either do this and move around where they told me to but not get the words right, or I could sing the words and move but then the notes would be a mess, I could never quite get all three. And I practiced and practiced and practiced, and the fellow who was teaching me kept saying, ‘Just make it simple, just go with two or three notes,’ but I wanted to get every note in the song. And I just wouldn’t give it up, and I would just play all the time, all the time, and I remember standing in front of the mirror one night, and I was just like (feigns falling asleep) and I found myself collapsing, and I did it like three times, I’m like (sleeps), and then I thought I should go to bed. And I still fucked it up.

Q: This has been a pretty good year for you and I was wondering if you have a top three moments that you’ve had.

Gerard Butler: (he laughs) There was definitely Amsterdam (everyone laughs). Wow, that’s a good question actually. I wish I had more time to think about it though because there have been a lot of highlights this year. I would say number one would probably be the night that 300 opened and we kind of jumped from cinema to cinema, there were like 25 of us, agents and the producers and all the people from the film, jumping into the back of every cinema, and to see how busy they were, and to see the lines, and suddenly everyone I’d ever met calling, ‘We can’t even get in to see this damn movie,’ and they were getting these emails literally going 10 million, 15 million, 18 million, 19 million, the next day, 25, 29, 31, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, for it to keep going like that is something that I’d never experienced, especially this isn’t a franchise, it wasn’t a Superman or a Pirates, and also it was a film that I was in, this doesn’t happen. [laughs] So that was a highlight of my career, and what was amazing was, I was surrounded by some very serious producers who I could tell this had never happened to them before either. I was experiencing something that was also a highlight in a lot of their lives. So there was that – I’m trying to think what else there was – so much has happened to me this year. Oh God, you know what, it took me long enough to explain that one, that was pretty amazing. It was a good question though.

Q: Speaking of 300, Zack has talked about possibly having you be in his Watchmen movie playing the pirate. Is that actually going to be happening?

Gerard Butler: You know, I’ll tell you, I don’t know. Zack’s crazy. So am I. So it’s funny cause... that’s a man I owe sitting here to, yeah I was a big part of 300, but that’s Zack’s movie. It’s his genius that made 300 what it was, it was a great marriage between the two of us. I was in a great position…I would’ve loved to jump into Watchmen and done something, but I had plenty to be doing on my own as well. I’ve done the graphic novel film so for me not to go on and do another one is fine, but I would love to work with Zack again… but that role has been on and off and on and off and the funny thing is we haven’t even talked about it, but I keep hearing rumors that, ‘Zack’s going to give you a call.’ I know he’s busy, one minute the role was cut cause of budget and then it was back in and then it was cut…so I keep hearing, ‘he’s going to call you… oh, maybe not.’ But my stunt man who is on my film – the one in New Mexico - just went up to there and he texted me and said, ‘Zack’s giving you a call cause he wants you to do that role.’ So I have no idea. I think, right now, they are so caught up with the main body of the film that I guess they probably don’t know if they’re going to do that or not. But if my schedule permits, I don’t finish my film until the end of January, and I think they’ll still be going... if it’s around I’d love to go up there. It would be really cool to get back on a set with Zack.