Austin Butler

2022 - 6 - 16

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Austin Butler 'Can't Help' Slipping Into Elvis' Voice—His ... (StyleCaster)

Austin Butler appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on June 15, 2022, to showcase the skills he learned while playing Elvis.

“The thing with him is they weren’t moves, they were coming out of the feel of the music,” he recounted. The Baz Luhrman film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2022, where it received a 12-minute standing ovation. Like, that was the goal, always have his soul in there.” You feel such a responsibility to him, to his family and to all the people around the world who love him so much.” The late-night talk show host asked how Butler did Elvis’ accents. Filming of the biopic ended in March 2021 according to GQ, however, Butler seems to still slip into Elvis’ voice at times. When Fallon was raving about Butler’s performance in the new Baz Luhrman film, Butler talked about how there was a duty that came with the role.

<em>Elvis</em> Star Austin Butler Rocks His Best Impressions of ... (PEOPLE.com)

'I'm on Jimmy Fallon talking about playing Elvis Presley … it just blows my mind,' Elvis star Austin Butler said on Wednesday's episode of The Tonight Show.

"I just went down the rabbit hole of obsession. "That's the thing. So I felt a responsibly to bring the humanity." "The ability to get to explore that was just the joy of my life," he said. It becomes a fiber of your being." 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," he said at the time.

Austin Butler cycling through Elvis impressions is truly impressive to ... (Mashable)

Austin Butler appeared on "The Tonight Show" and showed off his "Elvis" impressions to Jimmy Fallon.

'Elvis' Star Austin Butler On His Natural Voice—See Video (Glamour)

Austin Butler responds to claims that his voice changed after playing 'Elvis' in Baz Luhrmann's new movie.

While Butler's everyday voice may now have a tinge of Presley, it's not at all the same as going full Elvis—which he demonstrated while a guest on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on June 15. Still, there is a distinct tonal difference between how Butler spoke before he was cast as Elvis Presley and how he speaks now, after imitating the King's idiosyncratic baritone every day for so long. “Certain situations trigger it, I think,” he said with a smile, like being surrounded by Elvis's name at all times.

Austin Butler teaches Jimmy Fallon Elvis Presley dance moves (Page Six)

Austin Butler, who plays Elvis Presley in an upcoming biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann, taught Jimmy Fallon some of the late singer's iconic moves.

“It was all the music moving him.” “He’s the best.” I know that I’m constantly changing.”

'Elvis' Star Austin Butler Says His Mom's Death is What Connected ... (Today.com)

Austin Butler has more than singing and dancing in common with Elvis Presley.

“When I learned about his mom — and then knowing that we were the exact same age — that just hit me,” he said. The biopic chronicles Elvis' rise to fame while maintaining a complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. While on TODAY with Hoda and Jenna Thursday, Butler —who plays the late legend in the upcoming biopic, “Elvis" — said he initially struggled with tapping into Elvis' character beyond surface-level elements.