Austin Butler says he put his “life on pause for two years” to prepare to play Elvis Presley.
Austin Butler absorbed everything to do with Elvis Presley to prepare for Elvis
The ‘Elvis’ star put a priority on getting into character and “absorbed everything” that he “possibly could” to bring his best work to the biopic of the King of Rock’n’Roll helmed by Baz Luhrmann.
Speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday (26.05.22), the 30-year-old actor told reporters: “I basically put the rest of my life on pause for two years and I just absorbed everything I possibly could.”
Austin admitted to going “down the rabbit hole of obsession” to get to grips with the ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ legend.
He said: “I just went down the rabbit hole of obsession. And I broke down his life into periods of time where I could hear the differences in how his voice changed over the years and how his movement changed over the years and I spent two years studying, trying to find his humanity as best as I could through that.”
The ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ found it “tricky” to find the human aspect to Elvis as he is such an pop culture icon.
Austin said: “The tricky thing is you see Elvis as this icon, or as the wallpaper of society and finding a way to strip all of that away and find the very human nature of him that was deeper than all of that, that’s what was fascinating for me.”
Austin loved getting into the role, labelling it a “joy”.
He said: “The ability to get to explore that was just the joy of my life.”
Austin spoke about the “unrealistic expectations” he placed on himself to bring Elvis to life.
He said: “When I first started, I put these unrealistic expectations on myself that somehow, if I worked hard enough, I could make my face identical to Elvis’ face. And that my eyes would look exactly like Elvis’ eyes and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.”
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