Austin Butler

How did Austin Butler, a former Nickelodeon and Disney star, beat countless other young actors to play Elvis? Why, with a little bit of luck – and an ...

Now, Austin Butler is taking on the challenge of trying to resurrect him for the Baz Luhrmann biopic Elvis. If Elvis was a polite, handsome, and talented young interloper in the world of music, then Butler is a polite, handsome, and talented young interloper in the world of Elvis interpreters. There is perhaps no other person in human history who has been imitated and idolised as much as Elvis. In the face of the King’s omnipresence, how can a performer who is met with the task of portraying Elvis make it feel… For starters, the 30-year-old actor looks as if he’s been transported to our interview – at a convivial Los Angeles restaurant where the owners treat him like family – on a ray of California sunshine.

Austin Butler spent two years relentlessly preparing for his starring role as the King of Rock & Roll in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. Ahead of the film's theater ...

“Look, I’ve worked with every kind of actor and every kind of performer,” Luhrmann tells GQ. “And I accept that they have freak-outs, that’s okay. But then I started to kind of get comfortable with the fear, to the point that I could say, ‘I see you, fear, and you’re not going to stop me.’” Adding to his legacy and maybe, hopefully, even reclaiming some of his legacy.”

New couple Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler kissed passionately on the red carpet of his big premiere of "Elvis" at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

They were then spotted heading to an airport ahead of a joint vacation. They’re having a lot of fun getting to know each other.” The outing marks their latest high-profile event as a couple.

Austin Butler has revealed he was rushed to hospital the day after he finished filming on the forthcoming Elvis Presley biopic.

The actor, whose previous credits include TV series The Shannara Chronicles and Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, said of playing the famous musician: "You can lose touch with who you actually are. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis."

The model, 20, looked sensational in a red halterneck dress alongside the actor, 30, who plays Elvis in the biopic.

The film chronicles the life and career of Elvis from his early days as a child growing up in Mississippi to his ascent as a rock and roll icon and movie star, along with his complex relationship with his manager. Sweet: Kaia and Austin were first seen together since last December, with the couple being inseparable ever since Kaia and Austin were first seen together since last December, with the couple being inseparable ever since.

Turgid and shallow, the film costarring Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker adds little to our understanding of an icon.

The film does at least take advantage of some present-day hindsight: it is careful to note that Presley and other white rockers like him owed a huge debt to Black musicians who were criminally undervalued at the time (and now). But in some ways, that’s the only analysis the film bothers with. But Elvis yanks and jerks and rattles all over the place, looking for shape and purpose in every direction and finding little of it. It may well be a star-making turn for the actor, a bold announcement of thespian vigor and ingenuity that even devoted fans of The Carrie Diaries didn’t know he had. Much later in this turgid 160 minute film, Butler gives good deterioration, all the pill haze and frustrated rage that defined so much of the singer’s final years. He has to embody one of the most impersonated people in modern history in, somehow, a new or revealing way—to move past caricature and toward something like personhood. But little of his inner life, the fire uniquely his, is communicated to the audience.

Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler showed their burning love for each other during the Elvis premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. See the PDA-filled red ...

"My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis." The couple held each other's heads with both hands before locking lips in the middle of the crowd. The model and Elvis star were seen going in for a passionate kiss at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival premiere of Elvis on May 25.

Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler shared a sweet kiss at the film festival's premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new film 'Elvis,' where Butler stars as the titular ...

Before finding each other, Gerber and Butler each had previous relationships. The duo was first linked together in December 2021. Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler Share a Passionate Kiss at the Cannes Film Festival Elvis Premiere

The 30-year-old actor said he was rushed to the hospital in March 2021 where he spent a week bedridden.

The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” actor added that he had “huge shoes to fill” for the role. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” Actor Austin Butler said his body “started shutting down” just one day after filming wrapped for the forthcoming biopic, “Elvis.”

Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla has walked the red carpet alongside Austin Butler at the star-studded Cannes premiere of Baz Luhrmann's highly-anticipated ...

The protest was staged ahead of the film’s screening at the annual festival in the south of France. The 75th annual festival has already hosted the star-studded premiere for Top Gun: Maverick, which saw Cruise attend for the first time in 30 years. The film’s premiere was also attended by global music stars Shakira and Kylie Minogue, as well as 2021 Eurovision winners Maneskin.

Austin Butler and Vanessa Hudgens dated for nine years, so it's little surprise the 'Elvis' star was most respectful when speaking about her.

“But thank you for providing the space.” The pair dated from 2011 to 2020, ending their nearly decade-long romance in January of that year. AUSTIN BUTLER has opened up about his relationship with ex girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens — in an incredibly elegant way.

Baz Luhrmann debuted 'Elvis' at Cannes to a rapturous response.

Warner Bros. is opening “Elvis” in U.S. theaters on June 24. And on the phone, a voice said, ‘Hello, my name is [former festival director] Pierre Rissient, I am from the Cannes Film Festival, and we have seen your film and we would like to offer you a 12 o’clock screening in the Palais’…And at the end of the [screening in Cannes], I remember a security guard came over…and he grabbed me and said, ‘Monsieur, from this moment, your life will never be the same again.'” If he doesn’t get an Oscar for this, I will eat my own foot.” Austin captured that so beautifully.” And for that, we are eternally grateful, Cannes. All I can say is: Merci beaucoup, merci beaucoup, merci beaucoup.” The film joined “Top Gun: Maverick” as the two Hollywood tentpoles to world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. He told Variety that the evening prior, Butler screened the film for the first time, with girlfriend Gerber, and both were in tears. In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and finally done accurately and respectfully. Mason, who began as a model and dancer, earned mid-screening applause. And I got a call on the telephone and it was a French man, and I was holding a tin bucket above my head because the night before someone had been killed by a coconut that fell out of a tree. Luhrmann’s films are often over-the-top and extravagant affairs, which is exactly the vibe Warner Bros. brought to the director’s “Elvis” world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The studio surprised premiere attendees with a concert on the beach following the film’s debut screening. The audience at the Cannes Film Festival was trembling for Austin Butler as the King in Baz Luhrmann’s world premiere of “ Elvis.”

One critic called Hanks' turn as Tom Parker in the Baz Luhrmann biopic "possibly the most insufferable movie character ever conceived"

(“Arguably the least appealing performance of [Hanks’] career,” David Rooney writes, “A creepy, beady-eyed leer from under a mountain of latex, with a grating, unidentifiable accent that becomes no less perplexing even after the character’s murky Dutch origins have been revealed.”) Per Variety’s Owen Gleiberman, Butler’s turn as Old Elvis transforms the movie, making it, “A woefully imperfect but at times arresting drama that builds to something moving and true.” It’s as if Luhrmann watched Hanks’ performance from The Ladykillers and thought: “OK, what if that, but times 100 and for almost three entire hours?”

At the Cannes Film Festival 2022 premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic, Austin Butler made some minor tweaks to the black-tie playbook and looked like a ...

Staying true to the shit-kicking style of his character in the film, perhaps, Butler instead opted for a pair of winklepicker black leather boots. Austin Butler's choice to wear a double rather than a single-breasted jacket also afforded the look extra sartorial weight. Everyone knows that the most traditional shoes to wear with a black-tie look are a pair of patent leather lace-ups.

Baz Luhrmann's epic biopic about the life and career of Elvis Presley has certainly been a long time coming. Warner Bros ...

“I was like, ‘This is what Elvis felt when he was put into the Army,’ ” Austin said. “I get a phone call out of the blue from Denzel Washington, who I did not know. Austin ended up being bedridden for a week after he was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis. “Just images of Elvis everywhere, from every time period,” Austin told the publication. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” As the severity of the pandemic became more clear, production was shut down indefinitely.

Austin Butler is still coming up for air from his intense experience of portraying Elvis Presley in the upcoming Baz Luhurmann-directed biopic—but that air ...

He went just the slightest bit groovier for the red carpet, in sharp pointed boots and a custom Celine double-breasted suit with a tiny cornflower-blue flower in his lapel. During an afternoon photocall, he channeled the King in his early days, wearing a crisp spread-collar sport shirt and trousers from The Row, a Cartier watch, and Jacques Marie Mage shades—very much the archetypal ’50s guy silhouette, with just a bit of slouch. And I definitely had that when I finished Elvis—not knowing who I was.” And while the role still clearly has a hold on the native Californian’s speaking voice, it also make sense that he’s still dressing for the part during the rollout.

Austin Butler's portrayal of music icon Elvis Presley in the upcoming biopic Elvis is being considered the actor's career-defining role — but in a new ...

“My family said I didn’t sound like me anymore,” Austin confessed to the outlet. “You can lose touch with who you actually are," said Austin about his devotion to becoming Elvis on-screen. Even the writer of Austin's GQ cover story, Gabriella Paiella, pointed out that the actor couldn't shake his "husky Elvis” accent throughout their interview.

Austin Butler, who's playing the King of Rock 'n' Roll in the upcoming "Elvis" biopic, revealed he was hospitalized the day after filming ended.

So when I learned that, it was one of those things where I got chills and I just thought, 'OK, I can connect to that,'" he said. He said he began imagining the role from the perspective of someone with glamour used to "hearing screaming fans, and then suddenly you’re just dressed like everybody else in those fatigues." "Masters of the Air" director Cary Fukunaga added: "I was aware when he showed up, he was still very much Elvis."

"What is really important is that his soul comes out," Butler said in a press conference for Elvis at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday.

"And then the tricky thing is being able to be there on the day and have it feel like it's happening for the first time and that it's spontaneous." Butler admitted, "It's like spinning plates, because you want to go back to the specifics. Butler also talked about being obsessed with his character and learning more about the iconic "Love Me Tender" singer: "I just went down the rabbit hole of obsession.