Austin Butler tried his best to accurately represent Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis.
An actor who was nominated for an Academy Award discussed the lengths he took to depict the role in a clip for this week’s episode of the Variety Awards Circuit podcast.
Butler, who is 31 years old, admitted that in order to play an older version of Elvis Presley in the biopic, which charts the rise to prominence of the iconic music icon at various points in his career, he had to put on weight. In the movie, Butler portrays an elderly Elvis Presley.
I’ve heard rumors that Ryan Gosling heated up Haagen-Dazs in the microwave before eating it while filming The Lovely Bones. He said that I had reached the stage where I was doing it.

He admitted that he donned a body suit in the movie sequences when he played Elvis Presley, but he also said that he did everything he could to be ready for the parts.
So that I could eat them all, I would go to the supermarket and purchase two dozen doughnuts. I had started to gain weight tremendously by this time. It’s enjoyable for about a week, but after that you start to feel self-conscious,” he said. However, starting the filming in the right order was part of our initial strategy. In light of COVID in particular, it was abandoned quite rapidly. It was totally difficult to pull off.
At a press conference conducted in May at the Cannes Film Festival, he made this revelation. He said that during the two years that the film’s production and release date were postponed owing to the COVID outbreak, he “put his life on rest” in order to study “everything” about Elvis Presley.
I unexpectedly discovered myself sliding into an infatuated rabbit hole.I spent two years studying him, trying as much as I could to grasp his humanity through that, and I separated his life into periods of time where I could hear the variations in how his voice and movement evolved through the years,” he continued. Since I could hear the changes in his voice and movement as they changed with age, I split his life into periods of time.
In January, he paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live! and said the following. I’d say altogether it was a nerve-wracking experience. The fact is that I let my fear to dictate how I behaved, he said.
He said before the performance that he had collections of Elvis Presley’s voice, which he would “listen to every day – his laugh, different songs” for “hours.” He listened to these compilations during the performance for “hours.”
According to Butler, who was mentioned by Jimmy Kimmel, “And then once I was authorized to leave the apartment, I would usually wake up every day around 3 or 4 in the morning with this horror.” Butler was referring to the window of time when he could exit the apartment.