Harry Styles wasn’t cast in his Elvis Presley biopic and, honestly, it makes total sense. The filmmaker reckons the Grammy Award winning musician is just too much of an ‘icon’ to play Presley, which is surely the nicest job rejection you could possibly get.
As It Was hitmaker Styles went for the lead role in Luhrmann’s biopic of The King, but ultimately lost out to Austin Butler.
Although the 59-year-old director would happily work with the former One Direction singer on a different project, he felt he was too recognisable for the musical.
Speaking on Australian Radio show Fitzy and Wippa, he said: ‘I don’t audition. I do these really rich workshops. I’ll talk about Harry only because Harry said it himself just recently. ‘Harry is really talented actor.
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