Austin Butler felt a heavy weight on his shoulders when it came time to step into Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes for the upcoming biopic, directed by Baz Luhrmann.«Elvis is so loved and so iconic,» the actor told ET's Nischelle Turner earlier this week. «You feel a responsibility playing any human that has actually lived, but with him, it's a weight like I never felt before.»«There's a responsibility to his family, and also putting his story into context,» he continued. «There's so many misconceptions about him, there's so many ideas about him.
I felt such a responsibility to bring the humanity.»Everything from Elvis' oft-mimicked accent to his signature hairstyle have become so ingrained in the public's memory that they are almost «caricatures» of the man, Butler said.«It was finding how subtle can you go with things and still have the essence,» he said of channeling the iconic persona. «That's the tricky thing, is going back and forth between the incredibly technical things, and then never losing the humanity.
That was the goal, to always have his soul in that.»While Butler joked that he «had to work» to master Elvis' famous dance moves and muster up his courage to sing all of the «young Elvis» songs in the film, he said one thing that helped alleviate his nerves was knowing that Elvis was also nervous in those moments.«The fact that I knew that he experienced stage fright, it relieved so much,» he admitted. «It's not something that you need to not feel in order to do things that you believe in.»Most fans will have to wait until the film's June 24 release to see Butler channel the icon, however, his performance did pass one very important test in earning the approval of Elvis' ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, who joined.
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