Exclusive Austin Butler Oscars Q&A

Exclusive Austin Butler Oscars Q&A

They Elvis The star is experiencing all the excitement of the fiery Hunka Awards season.

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Elvis is a film about Presley’s relationship with Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). How would you describe this association?

It’s a really hard relationship to sum up, and I think that’s what a lot of this film is trying to explore. Elvis was very famous locally, but not globally. The Colonel was a marketing master, so it’s sort of a Svengali-type relationship. Elvis wanted to do certain things like travel the world, and he couldn’t because of the colonel. I have a lot of feelings about this. There are many ways to approach it.

What were some of your paths into character?

One of the clues was that later in life he didn’t want to fall asleep alone in a room…

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