Austin Butler Reflects connected His Bond With Lisa Marie Presley

Austin Butler will ne'er hide the moments helium shared with Lisa Marie Presley. 

The histrion reflected connected however he'll retrieve the precocious girl of Elvis and Priscilla Presley at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival connected Feb. 15.

"She grew up with truthful overmuch attraction connected her from specified a young age," Austin, who was honored with the Virtuosos Award for his portrayal of her begetter in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, exclusively told E! News. "So erstwhile she came into my life, she was precise protective. And the quiescent times that we spent unneurotic were each astir benignant of turning down the sound connected the remainder of it and conscionable benignant of sharing successful those precise quality emotions."

These conversations had a profound interaction connected him. "It shifted the full position astatine this time, which is specified a clip of solemnisation of her father," the 31-year-old continued. "So I besides consciousness similar carrying astir that bequest is thing that was important to her."

Lisa Marie was laid to remainder astatine Graceland—where Elvis and her son Benjamin Keough are besides buried—in Memphis, Tenn. connected Jan. 22. Graceland was besides the spot wherever Austin met Lisa Marie for the archetypal time. 

"I archetypal met Lisa erstwhile we screened the movie astatine Graceland, and I've ne'er had an acquisition wherever I met idiosyncratic and felt an contiguous extent of narration to them," helium told Jimmy Fallon connected the Jan. 30 episode of The Tonight Show. "And she was a idiosyncratic who didn't truly person thing to beryllium and wouldn't unfastened up to everybody, and she conscionable opened up to me. And we got truthful adjacent truthful fast. So, it's conscionable devastating."

Austin—who secured his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Elvis—then reflected connected what this grant amusement play has been similar pursuing the decease of Lisa Marie, whose children besides see daughters Riley Keough, 33; Finley Lockwood, 14, and Harper Lockwood, 14.

"It's weird successful moments similar this due to the fact that it's truthful bittersweet," helium said. "So overmuch large worldly is happening, but I'm conscionable devastated for her household and for her to not beryllium present celebrating with us."