After his great performance as Elvis Presley, the American actor experienced a complex situation from which he could not have gotten out without help.
Elvis was one of the great movies of 2022 and Austin Butler's masterful and recognized performance as the king of rock & roll, without a doubt one of his strengths.
Director Baz Luhrmann consecrated an impressive body of work that shows the singer at one of the most complex points in his life amid his meteoric rise to fame.
Along with Austin Butler was Tom Hanks playing Colonel Parker, Elvis Presley's historic manager, and responsible for accompanying him throughout his career.
The castaway star noticed that the young actor had immersed himself very deeply in the character in the film and decided to give him some life-changing advice.
"Tom Hanks told me that I had gotten so deep into Elvis that for the sake of my sanity, it would be smart to jump right in with my next project. He told me that if I put my arms down, it could have emotional consequences, and I He said he was about to produce something," Austin Butler explained in an interview with The Times of London.
That is why the Forest Gump interpreter decided to take him to the project that he was producing with Steven Spielberg, the Masters of the Air series. This is the third part of the trilogy of stories set in World War II from which Band of Brothers and The Pacific already came out.
Austin Butler assured on more than one occasion that impersonating Elvis Presley was very difficult and that it forced him to go to the limit of what was possible. In addition, he assured that no experience can ever be similar to what he lived embodying the star.
Luckily for the actor, Tom Hanks was there to give him the moral and psychological support that he needed and that he was able to identify from his own experience. Something that only a person who has gone through the same thing recognizes at first glance.
Austin Butler, in addition to joining the cast of Steven Spielberg's series, will be part of the second installment of Dune, where he plays the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. However, for a while, he will be remembered as the face that brought the iconic Elvis Presley to life.
