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Austin Butler Addresses His New Elvis-Like Voice astatine Globes
Austin Butler has this fanbase each shook up.
The Golden Globe victor precocious reflected connected his roadworthy to playing Elvis Presley successful the biopic Elvis, explaining that it was a "friend" who convinced him helium was cleanable for the role. However, galore fans person work, work, worked it retired that Austin was perchance referring to ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens—and with bully reason.
"The period earlier I heard that Baz [Luhrmann] was making the movie, I was going to look astatine Christmas lights with a friend," helium recalled during The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable published Jan. 10. "And determination was an Elvis Christmas opus connected the vigor and I was singing on and my person looked implicit astatine maine and goes, ‘You've got to play Elvis.' I said, 'Oh, that's specified a agelong shot.'"
But helium notes his unnamed person was persistent, giving him the aforesaid enactment a small portion later.
"A mates of weeks later, I was playing the piano," helium continued. "I ne'er truly sang for immoderate of my friends oregon anything. That aforesaid person was determination and I was playing the piano. She said, ‘I'm serious. You gotta fig retired however you tin get the rights to a script.' Then my cause called and said, ‘So Baz Luhrmann is making an Elvis film.'"
So however does Vanessa acceptable into this? The actress, who dated Austin from 2011 to 2020, shared a astir identical communicative successful 2019.
"Last December, we were driving on and we were listening to Christmas music, and past an Elvis Presley Christmas opus came on," Vanessa shared
on Live with Kelly and Ryan at the time. "He had conscionable dyed his hairsbreadth dark. He's a earthy blonde, blonde and I was looking astatine him and helium was singing on and I was like, ‘Babe, you request to play Elvis.'"
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The High School Musical alum continued the communicative by noting Austin was playing the soft for her erstwhile she pushed the thought further.
"Then successful January, helium was sitting astatine the piano," she shared. "And he's playing and he's singing and I'm like, ‘I don't cognize how, but you request to fig retired however you tin play Elvis. Like, I don't cognize however we get rights oregon what we do, but you request to play him."
Sure enough, Austin yet landed the role—and present helium has besides landed himself successful the halfway of sermon among Vanessa fans.
One idiosyncratic wrote connected Twitter, "Vanessa hudgens and Austin butler dated for 10 years conscionable for him to telephone her his person IM SICK."
However, others didn't deliberation determination was malice successful The Carrie Diaries alum referring to his ex arsenic a friend, with 1 stating, "There's virtually thing incorrect with Austin Butler calling Vanessa a person that is called GROWTH AND MATURITY. Learn it."
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