• Austin Butler plays Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann biopic “Elvis”.
• The actor has been working on the film for over a year and a half.
• His first performance was supposed to be at Presley’s 1968 concert.

Austin Butler does a fantastic job portraying the “King of Rock and Roll” whether critics love or detest the Baz Luhrmann biopic “Elvis.”

After beginning to perform supporting roles in Hollywood Productions, Butler made appearances in the teen programmes “Hannah Montana,” “iCarly,” “Switched at Birth,” and subsequently “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

In Rahman’s musical film about the struggles of actors and singers, he is now disrupting the hip-spinning motion and the beat of Presley’s words.

“I thought I wouldn’t do it if I couldn’t find someone to play Elvis,” Rahman told Reuters.

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“(Butler) sent this video, but it wasn’t an audition. He lost a mother of the same age as Elvis, had a nightmare, went downstairs, put on an iPhone, and sang, so he broke down. “Unchained Melody” … his agent starts the process by saying “send it to the buzz”, but when he comes in, he comes in and when I meet him Was a little down Elvis Street. “

But after a year and a half of planning, Butler was free to “down Elvis Street” as much as he pleased when he started recording his first performance, which was the staging of Presley’s 1968 concert. It wasn’t, he claims.

“I felt so much responsibility, and what comes with it is an incredible amount of horror. I was very scared,” Butler said.

“I went on stage and the music started … I looked down, looked down at the leather on my arm and the ring on my finger, and felt like I was looking through his eyes. It was the most notable out-of-body experience. experience.”

“I had never seen this movie and felt this weight just by taking this big sigh in the middle of Act 1,” he said.

Elvis will launch a global cinema rollout on Wednesday.