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Austin Butler connected How He Hopes to Pay Homage to Elvis astatine 2023 Oscars
Austin Butler definite has fans each shook up.
Yes, the 31-year-old has impressed movie critics with his show of the late Elvis Presley successful Elvis. And his adjacent enslaved with the musician's extended family—including Priscilla Presley and the precocious Lisa Marie Presley—could melt hearts.
But the histrion besides can't avoid fielding questions astir his accent and translation into the king of stone ‘n' roll.
"It's hard for maine to speech about," he told E! News' Laverne Cox at the 2023 Golden Globes. "I can't truly bespeak connected it excessively much. It's conscionable this process—I don't cognize the difference."
What is definite is the accidental to play a euphony icon has impacted Austin's beingness for the better. And if helium wins the Best Performance by an Actor successful a Leading Role trophy at the 2023 Oscars on March 12, Austin would surely person Elvis to thank.
"It's hard to quantify a mode to decently wage homage," he told E! News' Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight astatine the 2023 SAG Awards. "It's changed my life, the acquisition of getting to unrecorded successful his shoes and look out of his eyes for that magnitude of time. It's been 1 of the top gifts of my life."
Before the biggest grant amusement kicks off, keep reading to spot everything Austin has shared astir his unforgettable accent, including wherefore it's inactive noticeable astir 9 months aft Elvis was archetypal released successful theaters.
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Don't Be Cruel
Before Elvis was released successful June 2022, Austin Butler warned moviegoers that helium couldn't exactly shake his translation of Elvis Presley off. "At this point, I support asking people, ‘Is this my voice?' due to the fact that this feels similar my existent [voice]," helium told Entertainment Tonight the aforesaid month. "It's 1 of those things wherever definite things trigger it."
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Mission Accomplished
When signing up for the Elvis role, Austin had 1 extremity successful mind. "When I began the process of this, I acceptable retired to marque my dependable identical to his," helium told The AU Review successful May 2022. "That was my goal, that if you heard a signaling of him and heard a signaling of me, you wouldn't beryllium capable to archer the difference."
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Work successful Progress
After Austin's publicist warned him astir the speech connected societal media surrounding his accent, the histrion made it wide helium was "getting rid" of it. It conscionable won't hap overnight. "I person astir apt damaged my vocal cords with each that singing," he said on BBC One's Graham Norton Show in February 2023. "One opus took 40 takes."
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Let Him Explain
Still not satisfied with Austin's explanation? He has different reason. "I conjecture aft 3 years of doing everything that I could to absorption connected this 1 extremity of trying to bring beingness to Elvis successful this film, I deliberation that there's definite muscular habits that indispensable popular up," helium told the Los Angeles Times in January 2022. "If I was trying to dependable similar Elvis, I would dependable precise antithetic close now. I deliberation it's benignant of amusing to maine however overmuch radical privation to absorption connected this 1 thing."
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Defending His Voice
After winning the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Actor successful a Drama Film, the histrion was asked astir his accent again backstage. "I often liken it to erstwhile idiosyncratic lives successful different state for a agelong time," helium explained in the property room. "I had 3 years wherever [Elvis] was my lone absorption successful life, truthful I'm definite there's conscionable pieces of my DNA that volition ever beryllium linked successful that way."
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Support System
"What you saw successful that Golden Globes speech, that's him," Austin's dependable coach Irene Bartlett told ABC's Gold Coast successful January 2023. "It's genuine, it's not enactment on. I consciousness atrocious radical are saying that it's inactive acting [but] he's really taken [the voice] connected board. I don't cognize however agelong that volition last, oregon if it's going to beryllium determination forever."
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Unknown Future
Perhaps the concealed to bidding farewell to the accent is earning a caller acting role. "I cognize that I'm perpetually changing," helium told ELLE Australia in June 2022. "Check successful with maine successful 20 years erstwhile I've played a batch of roles, who knows what I'll dependable like!"
E!'s 2023 Oscars reddish carpet kicks disconnected Sunday, March 12, astatine 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT connected E!, followed by the 2023 Academy Awards astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected ABC. And don't miss E! News the adjacent time astatine 11 p.m. for a afloat recap of the biggest Oscars moments.
