Austin Butler

At the Cannes Film Festival 2022 premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic, Austin Butler made some minor tweaks to the black-tie playbook and looked like a ...

Staying true to the shit-kicking style of his character in the film, perhaps, Butler instead opted for a pair of winklepicker black leather boots. Austin Butler's choice to wear a double rather than a single-breasted jacket also afforded the look extra sartorial weight. Everyone knows that the most traditional shoes to wear with a black-tie look are a pair of patent leather lace-ups.

Baz Luhrmann's epic biopic about the life and career of Elvis Presley has certainly been a long time coming. Warner Bros ...

“I was like, ‘This is what Elvis felt when he was put into the Army,’ ” Austin said. “I get a phone call out of the blue from Denzel Washington, who I did not know. Austin ended up being bedridden for a week after he was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis. “Just images of Elvis everywhere, from every time period,” Austin told the publication. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” As the severity of the pandemic became more clear, production was shut down indefinitely.

Austin Butler has said he was rushed to hospital after he finished filming Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley biopic.

“My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” Butler, who plays Elvis, recalled in an interview with GQ UK how his body “started shutting down” after filming concluded in March 2021. “The next day I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital,” Butler said.

The 77-year-old wiped away tears as she hugged director Baz Luhrmann after the screening.

“Halfway through the film Jerry and I looked at each other and said WOW!!!” she shared. Austin captured that so beautifully,” she added. “In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and finally done accurately and respectfully. “It is a true story told brilliantly and creatively that only Baz, in his unique artistic way, could have delivered. and we are back in Cannes,” he said. So for that, we are eternally grateful, Cannes.”

Austin Butler beat Tom Cruise in audience response to 'Elvis' which bested Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' with a 12-minute standing ovation.

To find the human within that icon, that was a joy I could do for the rest of my life.” To get to explore that and learn the way he was. In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully,” the entertainer continued. His performance beat out the audience accolades shown to Tom Cruise, star of Top Gun: Maverick, who screened the sequel to his 1986 blockbuster, Top Gun at the festival on May 19. What a character he was.” For starring as Elvis Presley in the feature film Elvis, Austin Butler received a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Of all of the films screened at the yearly film festival thus far, Butler’s performance received the longest ovation.

"Elvis" actor Austin Butler says portraying the King of Rock & Roll on screen took a toll on his body and he had to be hospitalized.

By the time 'Elvis' filming ended in March 2021, Austin Butler had given himself so much to the role that his body started shutting down.

The singer never launched a worldwide tour and played only three venues outside the U.S. during his career, all of them in Canada in 1957. “So when I learned that, it was one of those things where I got chills, and I just thought, 'OK, I can connect to that.'” Health problems including genetic and autoimmune issues also plagued Presley, who died in 1977 at the age of 42.

"What is really important is that his soul comes out," Butler said in a press conference for Elvis at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday.

"And then the tricky thing is being able to be there on the day and have it feel like it's happening for the first time and that it's spontaneous." Butler admitted, "It's like spinning plates, because you want to go back to the specifics. Butler also talked about being obsessed with his character and learning more about the iconic "Love Me Tender" singer: "I just went down the rabbit hole of obsession.

Austin Butler's portrayal of music icon Elvis Presley in the upcoming biopic Elvis is being considered the actor's career-defining role — but in a new ...

“My family said I didn’t sound like me anymore,” Austin confessed to the outlet. “You can lose touch with who you actually are," said Austin about his devotion to becoming Elvis on-screen. Even the writer of Austin's GQ cover story, Gabriella Paiella, pointed out that the actor couldn't shake his "husky Elvis” accent throughout their interview.

Austin Butler is still coming up for air from his intense experience of portraying Elvis Presley in the upcoming Baz Luhurmann-directed biopic—but that air ...

He went just the slightest bit groovier for the red carpet, in sharp pointed boots and a custom Celine double-breasted suit with a tiny cornflower-blue flower in his lapel. During an afternoon photocall, he channeled the King in his early days, wearing a crisp spread-collar sport shirt and trousers from The Row, a Cartier watch, and Jacques Marie Mage shades—very much the archetypal ’50s guy silhouette, with just a bit of slouch. And I definitely had that when I finished Elvis—not knowing who I was.” And while the role still clearly has a hold on the native Californian’s speaking voice, it also make sense that he’s still dressing for the part during the rollout.

Austin Butler, who's playing the King of Rock 'n' Roll in the upcoming "Elvis" biopic, revealed he was hospitalized the day after filming ended.

So when I learned that, it was one of those things where I got chills and I just thought, 'OK, I can connect to that,'" he said. He said he began imagining the role from the perspective of someone with glamour used to "hearing screaming fans, and then suddenly you’re just dressed like everybody else in those fatigues." "Masters of the Air" director Cary Fukunaga added: "I was aware when he showed up, he was still very much Elvis."