I mean, it was insane.” In the film, Butler plays Leonidas, the King of Sparta, who leads 300 soldiers to battle against over 300,000 Persian forces. Released in 2006, 300 became a smash hit ...

He killed 300 Chinese soldiers during this battle ... led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of ...