the “Today” show that she found it hard to watch the unfolding of Presley’s relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.She also said seeing how the singer wanted — but ultimately failed — to take his career beyond music and into “serious” film work was a bitter pill to swallow.“He wanted to do movies, serious movies, and Colonel Parker probably should have stayed a publicist,” she told the outlet. “He didn’t take Elvis where he wanted to be, and that was hard because I lived it.“I lived the arguments that they had, I lived Elvis trying to explain he didn’t want to do the movies with all the girls and the beaches and everything, that he really wanted to do serious things,” she continued.“So living that, with him, and watching the movie, it brought back a lot of memories.”Presley has sung her praises for the film, officially giving her stamp of approval in April.In a Facebook post that month, the “Naked Gun” actress said she saw the movie with her late ex-husband’s longtime pal Jerry Schilling and was impressed by Austin Butler taking on the titular role.“The story is about Elvis and Colonel Parker’s relationship,” Presley wrote.
Austin Butler Reveals ‘Elvis’ Director Made Him Cry With Heckling
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Austin Butler practiced some method acting for his role as Elvis.
The actor spoke with VMAN for their Fall-Winter 2022 cover story about his time preparing for the role of a lifetime in “Elvis”.
For one particular scene, director Baz Luhrmann surprised the actor by inviting people to come heckle his performance.
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“When I was on my first day in the recording studio, Baz wanted me to get as close to performing as possible,” Butler recalled. “He had all the executives and everybody from RCA, who were back in the offices, he brought them into the recording studio and he goes, ‘I want you all to sit facing Austin’ … and he told them to heckle me.”
He added, “So then they were making fun of me and stuff while I was singing.”
While the treatment might’ve seemed cruel, Butler found it did help him for a similar scene later in the movie.
“When we were filming this moment when Elvis first goes on stage and he’s getting heckled by the audience, I knew what that felt like,” he said. “I went home in tears that night. I really did.”
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Luckily the actor wasn’t too blindsided by the odd directing technique as he had been warned by his friend Leonardo DiCaprio who had worked with the director before on “Romeo + Juliet” (1996) and “The Great Gatsby” (2013).
“I had spoken to Leo before and he said, ‘Baz is gonna push you in ways you didn’t know somebody could,'” Butler said. “‘He’s gonna push you off balance and keep you off balance.'”
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