Austin Butler

2022 - 5 - 31

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Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, Tom Hanks and how Austin Butler is having ... (British GQ)

An exclusive chat with the Australian director about his latest epic, Elvis, and how it's already making a megastar of his leading man.

So that's him in the 50s: he's a total rebel and he becomes a political problem. At a special GQ screening of the film, we spoke with Lurhmann about Elvis's legacy, his leading man and why now feels like the right time to rediscover The King. The Australian is not only one of the most well-known movie directors in the world, but among the most distinctive, with a visual and musical style honed in the time it finds lesser visionaries to begin to find their feet.

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Austin Butler Generates Same Hysteria as pre-'Titanic' Leonardo ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

'Elvis' star Austin Butler reportedly generates the same type of red-carpet hysteria as a pre-'Titanic' Leonardo DiCaprio says Baz Luhrmann.

That’s what Elvis would do.’ And so, I sat down, and I played ‘Unchained Melody,’ which, if you look at the words, in one way, it’s really about missing somebody and needing love. I was with a young actor whose name was Leo.” “As soon as we got on the red carpet, there was keening from fans. “Well, what if I pour it into a song right now? That actor was Leonardo DiCaprio, ahead of his starring role in 1997’s Titanic. Prior, DiCaprio starred in Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet alongside Claire Danes. At the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Butler and the cast of Luhrmann’s film received a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of the entire event.

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Olivia DeJonge and Austin Butler lead stars at Elvis screening in ... (Daily Mail)

The actress, 24, who plays Elvis' wife Priscilla in the biopic, ensured all eyes were on her on the red carpet as she donned a cream dress with a backless ...

So, it wasn't a bad thing that I was experiencing that fear and I knew that he was feeling the same thing. 'I was anticipating hearing horror stories about the Colonel and I heard just the opposite. "Yeah, we had to sue him and he gave it up and we got it." I could just take that energy and do what he did which was build a rapport with the audience.' Speaking on BBC's The One Show, he said: 'I had about a year and a half before we started shooting. it felt like everything was on the line in this moment. 'It became this two-year obsession where I put the rest of my life on pause. 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. Was he fishy with some of the money? It feels like climbing Mount Everest, it's just so mammoth of a task so' I went through every bit of his being like that. - 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

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Austin Butler Has Perfected Chic Classic Suiting (W Magazine)

Young male stars have been spearheading maximalist fashion with gusto over the past few years. Every time Lil Nas X steps out in a fully beaded Balmain suit ...

A day later, and Butler kept on that white tank, this time layering it with a white suit jacket and black pants with a hand, once again, in his pocket. It’s clear from these looks that Butler has been inspired by Elvis and the style of men’s dressing in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Everything from the actor’s whipped up hair, exaggerated collars, and wider-leg pants have a retro edge to them. The day after that classic moment, Butler took off his jacket and went a little more casual for the Elvis photocall.

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Elvis biopic stars Olivia DeJonge and Austin Butler wow on red ... (The Sun)

OLIVIA DeJonge and Austin Butler left fans thrilled at a special screening of the new Elvis Presley biopic last night.The film, Elvis, documents the K.

OLIVIA DeJonge and Austin Butler left fans thrilled at a special screening of the new Elvis Presley biopic last night. The new film will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on June 24. Elvis biopic stars Olivia DeJonge and Austin Butler wow on red carpet at London premiere

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Elvis UK Premiere Interviews: Baz Luhrmann & more on Austin ... (HeyUGuys)

This evening the BFI Southbank rolled out the Blue Suede Carpet for the UK Premiere of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster biopic of Elvis Presley's life.

This evening the BFI Southbank rolled out the Blue Suede Carpet for the UK Premiere of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s blockbuster biopic of Elvis Presley’s life. Attending the event in London this evening were writer/director Baz Luhrmann, Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia Dejonge, Yola, Luke Bracey, Producers Catherine Martin, Schuyler Weiss, Gail Berman & Patrick Mccormick. Elvis will be released in the UK & Ireland on 24th June by Warner Bros. Pictures. Scott Davis and Luke James were on the red carpet.

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Austin Butler & Tom Hanks Chat It Up at 'Elvis' UK Premiere (Just Jared Jr.)

Also in attendance were musician and Euphoria composer Labrinth, Chronicles of Narnia's Georgie Henley and singer HRVY with girlfriend Mimi Slinger. That same ...

They actually had the longest standing ovation at the festival! Just last week, the cast of Elvis were at the Cannes Film Festival, premiering the movie. Austin Butler and Tom Hanks have a little chat on the red carpet at the UK premiere of their movie Elvis held at BFI Southbank on Tuesday (May 31) in London.

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Watch the red carpet livestream from UK special screening of 'Elvis' (NME.com)

A UK special screening of the new Elvis Presley biopic 'Elvis' is taking place in London tonight (May 31) - watch red carpet livestream here.

Butler and Hanks’ co-stars Olivia DeJonge (who plays Elvis’ wife Priscilla Presley), Yola (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and Luke Bracey (Jerry Schilling) will also be walking the red carpet at tonight’s event. You’ll be able to watch all of the action, which will feature interviews and be hosted by Yinka Bokinni, above. Elvis documents the life and music of the legendary Elvis Presley (played by Austin Butler) as seen through the prism of his relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).

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“Elvis would be nothing without Blackness”: the cast and crew of ... (British GQ)

At GQ and Warner Bros. special screening of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic, the director and stars Austin Butler and Yola discussed the King's artistic ...

Luhrmann compared Elvis' embrace of Black music to Eminem, who performs on the film's soundtrack. She discovers Little Richard. She was the first person to distort the guitar. She was the first person to bend the guitar string in a solo.” Early on, we see Elvis as a child mesmerised by gospel music after sneaking into a Black church (and later by early rock ‘n’ roll in a juke joint). As an adult, we see him sneaking off to Beale Street in Memphis to hang out with BB King, Little Richard and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. His relationship to this scene isn’t just incidental, it’s an integral part of who he is. And yet, 60+ years later, it still feels groundbreaking to see a film about Elvis meaningfully explore how his upbringing in a largely Black neighbourhood in segregated America formed him as an artist. “They played it like that in their shanties and in their juke joints and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goosed it up.”

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