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Austin Butler honors Lisa Marie Presley following BAFTAs win for 'Elvis' role: 'It's a bittersweet time'

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Austin Butler paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley after winning best actor at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards for "Elvis." Following his big win at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Butler admitted he felt "honored" to be welcomed into the Presley family and was also grieving Lisa's death.

Lisa Marie died in Los Angeles on Jan. 12 at the age of 54. "It’s been a really unimaginably tragic time, you know, and grief is a long process," Butler said, via Variety. "And so my heart and my love was with [the Presley family] always.

He added, "I feel honored to have been welcomed into the family. It’s a bittersweet time." The 31-year-old actor reveled in the chance to play the iconic singer, and didn't take for granted how close he was to actually walking in Elvis' shoes. "How lucky I was to get to have that experience," he said. "The feeling of standing on an international stage and looking out and looking down at the jumpsuit that I was wearing and realizing there were certain moments where I was seeing the closest thing to what Elvis would have seen during his ’68 Special or whatever that was, and I miss it a lot.

I miss that experience." He added, "I don’t miss the terror. But I felt every day that the elation that you feel with that. And I miss the people that I got to make the film with, they became completely like family to me.

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