Oscar-nominated Elvis prima Austin Butler exclusively revealed to E! News however portraying Elvis Presley has changed his beingness up of his archetypal Academy Awards. See his sizzling reddish carpet look.
Austin Butler connected How He Hopes to Pay Homage to Elvis astatine 2023 Oscars
There's nary uncertainty we've got burning emotion for Austin Butler's 2023 Oscars look.
The 31-year-old histrion acceptable the Academy Awards reddish carpet connected occurrence successful a classical double-breasted achromatic Saint Laurent tuxedo astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Hollywood connected March 12. Butler, who is nominated for Best Lead Actor for his portrayal of Elvis Presley successful Elvis (see the afloat database of nominees here), channeled the precocious rocker's suave benignant and swoon-worthy bully looks portion posing for pics up of Hollywood's biggest night. (See each personage connected the Oscars reddish carpet here.)
The prima exclusively opened up to E! News' Laverne Cox astir however the titular relation successful Baz Luhrman's Elvis changed his beingness forever. In fact, Butler was stumped erstwhile asked what his favourite takeaway from the task is.
"It's hard to database conscionable 1 due to the fact that it's specified a portion of my life, you know?" helium said, adding, "My champion friends that I've met on this journey, each the idiosyncratic things I had to excavation retired of myself successful bid to spell connected the travel successful the archetypal place."
Butler stated helium feels similar a wholly antithetic antheral contiguous aft portraying the "Hound Dog" singer, but that he's acceptable to determination connected to different roles aft tonight's Oscars. "It started 4 years ago," helium shared, "so contiguous is virtually the adjacent of that chapter."
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Nominated alongside Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Paul Mescal (Aftersun) and Bill Nighy (Living) astatine tonight's grant show, Butler antecedently opened up to E! astir however helium hoped to wage tribute to the King of Rock 'n' Roll astatine the 2023 Oscars.
"It's hard to quantify a mode to decently wage homage," helium exclusively told E! News Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight successful February. "It's changed my life, the acquisition of getting to unrecorded successful his shoes and look retired of his eyes for that magnitude of time. It's been 1 of the top gifts of my life. Being welcomed into his household is genuinely thing I'm truthful honored about."
The 2023 Oscars aerial March 12 astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected ABC. Check retired each prima connected the Oscars red carpet below.
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