ELVIS: Tom Hanks’ nice gesture to Austin Butler

Elvis : the revelation of an actor

Se started his career in the 2000s and has appeared in many movies and similar series Hanna Montana, switched, The dead don’t die OR Once upon a time…in HollywoodAustin Butler finds his first major film role in 2022 with Elvis. For this biopic disproportionate to the glory of the King signed Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Gatsby the Magnificent), the actor is fully involved. He works a lot on his gestures but also on his voice. During the 75th Cannes Film Festival where the feature film was presented out of competition, the actor confided to us:

I’ve spent countless hours listening to it, watching it, experimenting and trying things. I listened to his interviews over and over again. So I’d record my voice and listen back, to see where my voice was different. He’s changed a lot over the years too, so we had to piece together his life and understand his transitions, his evolution.

Obsessed with Elvis Presley, the actor devotes all his time to him for three years. He wants at all costs to become this great character of the twentieth century, also because he recognizes himself in one of the dramas of his life. As an interpreter of Suspicious minds, Austin Butler loses his mother at the age of 23. A sad common point that only strengthens the actor’s determination. In 2022, he declares him in the show TODAY with Hoda and Jenna :

When I found out about his mother – and then that we were exactly the same age – it hit me. It’s one of those things where you know the stars are aligning and it becomes something extremely personal.

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Tom Hanks was worried about Austin Butler

This investment gives rise to an impressive transformation. This logically earned Austin Butler an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also impresses his partner Tom Hanks, who lends his likeness to the enigmatic Colonel Tom Parker, manager of the king. Noting that the young actor devotes himself body and soul to the role of him, the protagonist of Forrest Gump AND We have to save Private Ryan he is worried about his mental health and proposes that he return to work immediately afterwards Elvis.

Tom Hanks thus proposes Austin Butler one of the main roles of Masters of the airthe third World War II mini-series he co-produced with Steven Spielberg after Band of Brothers AND The Pacific. In an interview with the British newspaper Times in August 2023, Austin Butler reveals that Tom Hanks allegedly told him (via variety):

You dug yourself so deep Elvis that, for your sanity, it would be wise to move forward now. If you stop, you may feel an emotional backlash… and, you know, I have this project that I’m producing.

Featuring US Air Force pilots and also worn by Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan, Masters of the air He has not no release date yet on Apple TV+.

Source: Cine Serie

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