Austin Butler

The actor, 30, said he 'lost touch' with his own personality after playing the 'King of Rock and Roll' in Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis.

Star: Watching from the wings is Colonel Tom Parker - played by Tom Hanks - whom Elvis signed a contract with in January 1955 and he went on to manage him for over two decades 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. Rock star: Austin Butler has revealed he found it difficult to separate himself from his character after playing Elvis Presley and spoke of being bedridden with a virus after filming Transformation: The actor, 30, said he 'lost touch' with his own personality after playing the 'King of Rock and Roll' in Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis Austin Butler has revealed he found it difficult to separate himself from his character after playing Elvis Presley and spoke of being bedridden with a virus after filming. 'You can lose touch with who you are': Austin Butler reveals he found it hard to get out of character after playing Elvis Presley and speaks of being bedridden with a virus after filming

Austin Butler 'rushed to hospital' after finishing filming Elvis: 'My body started shutting down'. Actor was diagnoses with virus that simulates appendicitis ...

“It’s intense enough to watch, I don’t want to act in it,” she said. “It was never a conversation. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

Hollywood thinks he might be the next big star. But with the risky “Elvis” riding on his performance, the magnetic actor is feeling the pressure.

“But it was a very slow burn,” he said. “My palms were sweating ahead of time, and I was feeling shaky — because this was a make-or-break moment in Elvis’s career, and it felt like it was a make-or-break moment in my own,” he said. “There were times when I was afraid,” Butler said. When the first “Elvis” trailer dropped in February, the online snark gallery had a field day, with one commenter deeming Hanks’s accent “hog bonkers” and another likening it to “Henry Kissinger pretending to be from New Orleans.” ( The real Parker was born in the Netherlands but claimed to be from West Virginia.) “I could see that I was exciting these other human beings at the edge of the stage,” he said. “I remember asking one of my guys, ‘Where in Texas does he come from?’ And I was told, ‘Oh, no — he’s from Anaheim.” A certain level of stardom gives you that freedom, I guess, despite the drawbacks, but do you take the good with the bad?” He was starting to get tongue-tied. “I’m trying to learn how to navigate a new lack of privacy,” he said. I was with a young actor whose name was Leo.” He was referring to a pre-“Titanic” DiCaprio, then quivering hearts in Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” (1996). “That ready-to-fly moment is happening for Austin, and I know because we went to the Met Gala together,” Luhrmann said. Denis Villeneuve recently cast Butler as the villain in “Dune: Part Two.” (He has started intensive knife-fighting training for that role.) Butler will also play a lead in “Masters of the Air,” a coming Apple TV+ war saga from Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The big-budget “Elvis” called for a singing, hip-swiveling, icon-channeling dynamo, and Butler was unproven, with most of his experience coming from low-budget teen television shows.

Austin Butler has revealed the toll his new Elvis Presley film took on him, saying his 'body started shutting down' after wrapping his scenes.

(If he doesn’t get an Oscar for this, I will eat my own foot, haha.) He also met Presley’s widow, Priscilla, for the film, saying: ‘She looked like an angel, I walked down the hall with Baz afterwards with tears in my eyes.’ Presley’s family have supported Austin in the role, with his daughter Lisa Marie saying he should win an Oscar for the role.

"Elvis" star Austin Butler revealed that after filming wrapping on Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic, he was bedridden for weeks.

Then there’s Elvis the movie man, and that’s when he is pop and family-friendly. Lisa Marie said that Butler deserves an Academy Award for his moving take on the rock star, saying the former Disney star “embodied my father’s heart and soul beautifully.” The singer-actor was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis and spent a week confined to his bed.

The next day [after filming wrapped] I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital,” Butler said.

Butler also prepped for “Elvis” by meeting with the late music icon’s ex-wife Priscilla Presley. “She looked like an angel,” Butler said. Warner Bros. is set to debut “Elvis” in U.S. theaters on June 24. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished ‘Elvis.’”

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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.

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.”

The Shannara Chronicles star plays the King of Rock and Roll in Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming 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. My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” He told the magazine: “I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital.