• Riley Keough offered Austin Butler her seal of approval as she gushed.
• She gushed about his astonishing likeness to her grandfather Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann film Elvis.
• “I could not have imagined someone doing what he did in terms of portraying my grandfather,” she concluded.

Riley Keough offered Austin Butler her seal of approval as she gushed about his astonishing likeness to her grandfather Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann film Elvis. I thought he was great and incredible, the 33-year-old Zola actress remarked while appearing on Live With Kelly and Ryan.

“I could not have imagined someone doing what he did in terms of portraying my grandfather,” she concluded. It was extremely upsetting and moving. It completely amazed me. “I could not have imagined someone doing what he did in terms of portraying my grandfather,” she concluded. It was extremely upsetting and moving. It completely amazed me.

The actress from The Lodge stated in the interview that previous portrayals of the late legend had a “caricature”-like quality, but that Butler, 31, was able to “catch the humanity.” Before meeting him in person, Keough said she texted him right away after watching the movie because she “was in tears for a week because of the film, but also because of his performance.”

Butler replied that he was appreciative and that her perspective, along with the views of the entire family, meant a lot. Keough did not elaborate on the actor’s prospective Oscar triumph, instead saying, “Fingers crossed!”

In a tribute to her musical legacy, Keough will star in the upcoming miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six. In the play, she will play a rock star, “I am not a musician, or at least I guess I am now. Since I have always been interested in movies, it was really romantic for me to connect with music in that way.

I definitely would not apply that pressure on it, she continued. I am not sure if it is carrying on my grandfather’s tradition; it seems to me to be of its own kind of thing. But for me, it was a genuinely enjoyable experience.

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