Austin Butler honors Lisa Marie Presley after BAFTA awards win

• Austin Butler honors Lisa Marie Presley after BAFTA awards win.
• It’s been a really unimaginably tragic time, you know, and grief is a long process.
• Austin Butler honors Lisa Marie Presley after BAFTA awards win.

After his latest award season win, Austin Butler is still in mourning for the late Lisa Marie Presley. Butler, 31, said at the 2023 BAFTA Awards on Sunday that his win for best actor in Elvis comes at a “bittersweet time” following Lisa Marie’s unexpected death at the age of 54 in January.

“It’s been a really unimaginably tragic time, you know, and grief is a long process,” Butler told reporters following his victory, according to Variety. “And so my heart and my love were always with [the Presleys].” “It’s an honour to be welcomed into the family,” he added. “It’s a strange time.”

While speaking with reporters, the actor also spoke to his luck “to get to have that experience” portraying Elvis Presley in the biopic Elvis, for which he has now won a Golden Globe and BAFTA award leading up to March’s Academy Awards.

“I miss standing on an international stage and looking out and looking down at the jumpsuit that I was wearing and realizing there were certain moments where I was seeing the closest thing to what Elvis would have seen during his ’68 Special or whatever that was,” Butler said of filming the film. “I long for that experience.”

Last Monday, the actor told people  that he and Lisa Marie “bonded very, very fast” at the 95th annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California. “And all those special moments of just being able to share life with her, I’ll cherish them forever,” he added.

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