Austin Butler spent two years working on Elvis, which consisted of sleepless nights, and fear he wouldn’t do the singer justice.
As he got struggled to get into character, everything changed when he found out he lost his mom at the same age as the singer. “When I learned about his mom,” he told Today with Hoda & Jenna, “that just hit me.”Butler has been praised for his performance as Elvis Presley, with the film gaining a 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes.
But playing someone like Presley was what Butler called one of the hardest things he’s ever done, especially knowing people like Lisa Marie and his ex-wife Priscilla Presley would be watching it. “That was the thing that would really wake me up every day.
I was waking up around in the morning even if I went to bed at 1. I couldn’t sleep, I wake up, and my heart is pounding,” he said.Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley’s emotional reaction seeing ‘Elvis’ movie: ‘It brought tears’Austin Butler gives rare insight into Vanessa Hudgens breakupWhy Austin Butler was rushed to hospital after filming ‘Elvis’While Butler practiced dancing and singing like Elvis, there was something they always had in common, losing their mother at the age of 23.
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