Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley were married from 1967 to 1973. (R) Olivia DeJonge plays Priscilla Presley opposite Austin Butler in "Elvis." Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley (L) Elvis Presley and his bride, the former Priscilla Beaulieu, after getting married at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967. “His mother passed away when he was 23, and my mom passed away when I was 23, so when I learned that, it was one of those things where I got chills, and I just thought, Okay, I can connect to that,'" Butler told GQ. “Who wouldn’t,” he said.īutler also connected to Elvis through their shared loss: Both lost their mothers when they were 23. In an October 2019 interview with “Interview” magazine he said that he would love to be a rockstar one day, drawing on his guitar and piano skills. Although he’s focused most of his career on acting - starting with NIckelodeon shows like "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" and "iCarly," before moving into movies like "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Butler has actually dabbled in music, like Presley. “I’ve never loved somebody I’ve never met more than Elvis.”īutler sees connections between him and the singer. I’ll just go, ‘What do I want to listen to?’ Usually I just end up popping on Elvis,” he said. “It’s comforting to me now, when I get in the car. However, the whole experience of playing the role made Butler admire the singer even more. “And I definitely had that when I finished Elvis - not knowing who I was.” “You can lose touch with who you actually are,” he added. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” “The next day I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital,” he told GQ in May. The 30-year-old actor immersed himself so much into the role that he physically became ill when production wrapped. Getty Images, Warner Bros.Īustin Butler’s commitment to the part of Elvis Presley is already making headlines. Austin Butler as Elvis Presley (L) Elvis Presley promoting the movie "King Creole" in 1958. released in February, the actors embodying the real life figures. Ahead of the movie's release, TODAY has taken a look at how the cast compares to their on-screen counterparts - and judging by the official trailer that Warner Bros.
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