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‘Elvis’ Star Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann & Gail Berman On The “Terror” Of Taking On The King – Contenders L.A.

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After landing the coveted title role in Baz Luhrmann’s musical drama Elvis, Austin Butler barely slept for two years.   “I’d wake up everyday at 3 in the morning and my heart would just be pounding,” the actor said on a panel for the Warner Bros film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event. “It felt like this immeasurable weight on my shoulders.

It felt so mammoth.”  RELATED: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage The “terror” he was feeling, he said, had to do with his fear that he couldn’t “possibly ever live up” to the task of portraying the musical icon — a performer with idiosyncrasies familiar to so many around the world.

Butler was joined on the panel at the DGA Theater by Luhrmann and producer Gail Berman, who like the actor have see the risks they took with Elvis affirmed many times over since the film’s Cannes Film Festival premiere.

The most meaningful response has come from those who knew the King of Rock and Roll personally — among them his daughter Lisa Marie Presley, wife Priscilla Presley, and longtime friend the talent manager Jerry Schilling.

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