![]() ![]() "The only way I could do it was to not leave any stone unturned. When production was delayed by six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Butler immersed himself even further into all things Elvis. He hired a movement coach, a dialect coach, an acting coach, and a singing coach. One does not simply swivel his hips and become Elvis, so Butler's prep work began a full year before filming was slated to begin. And there's also so many ways that it could have gone wrong." ![]() "But what comes along with that is just immense terror and a nearly crippling amount of responsibility - responsibility to all the people that gave me the job, but even more so to Elvis' family, and to his friends, and to all of his fans around the world. "It really felt like the role of a lifetime," Butler tells A.frame. (Unbeknownst to the actor, Denzel Washington, with whom he'd starred on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh, also cold-called Luhrmann to recommend Butler.) He won the part. Butler recorded an audition tape of himself at the piano, dressed in his bathrobe and singing "Unchained Melody," which both intrigued and impressed the director. ![]() "Whether that was his music or watching King Creole or Jailhouse Rock, those were the first memories I had."Īt age 31, Butler has now lived as the King of Rock and Roll in Baz Luhrmann's high-octane biopic, Elvis, which covers the momentous scope of Presley's life from his discovery at Sun Records in the early '50s and meteoric rise to stardom to his comeback in the '60s and his domination of the Las Vegas Strip in the '70s. "She was in high school in '56, so the Elvis of the '50s was always in her household," he remembers. Growing up in Anaheim, California, closer to Disneyland than Hollywood, a young Austin Butler first encountered Elvis Presley through his grandmother. ![]()
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