Austin Butler spent a lot of his profitable Oscar marketing campaign for “Elvis” referring to an unnamed “good friend” who had inspired him to hunt out the position. Intrepid TikTok customers who famous this “good friend” was probably his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens can now relaxation simple.
“I used to be with my associate on the time,” Butler mentioned in a Tuesday interview with The Los Angeles Occasions’ Mark Olsen, who requested if he meant Hudgens, who the actor dated for almost 9 years up till early 2020.
“That’s proper,” Butler mentioned. “We’d been collectively for thus lengthy and she or he had this type of clairvoyant second and so I actually, owe her rather a lot for believing in me.”
Each actors have shared the story, though Butler didn’t specify that Hudgens was the “good friend” in query.
“Final December, we have been driving alongside ... and an Elvis Presley Christmas track got here on,” Hudgens mentioned on “Dwell with Kelly and Ryan” in 2019. “He’d simply dyed his hair darkish ... and I used to be taking a look at him and he was singing alongside, and I used to be like: ‘Babe, you could play Elvis.’”
On the time, Butler had dyed black hair on account of his profitable audition for Quentin Tarantino’s “As soon as Upon a Time…in Hollywood.”
“Then in January, he was sitting on the piano,” Hudgens continued. “And he’s enjoying and he’s singing and I’m like, ‘I don’t understand how, however you could work out how one can play Elvis. Like, I don’t understand how we get the rights or what we do, however you could play him.’”
Throughout a latest Hollywood Reporter roundtable interview with fellow actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Fraser — each of whom are actually vying for Oscars as properly — Butler referred to Hudgens as his “good friend” when regaling them with the story.
“The month earlier than I heard that [director Baz Luhrmann] was making the film, I used to be going to take a look at Christmas lights with a good friend, and there was an Elvis Christmas track on the radio and I used to be singing alongside, and my good friend regarded over at me and goes, ‘You’ve received to play Elvis,’” he mentioned.
“I mentioned, ‘Oh, that’s such an extended shot,’” he mentioned, including that his good friend introduced it up a few weeks later whereas he was enjoying the piano. The good friend mentioned, in accordance with Butler, “‘I’m severe. You gotta work out how one can get the rights to a script.’ Then my agent known as and mentioned, ‘So Baz Luhrmann is making an Elvis movie.’”
Butler obtained an Oscar greatest actor nod for “Elvis” earlier this week. He known as his nomination “bittersweet” as a result of Lisa Marie Presley — Elvis’ daughter, whom the actor grew near throughout the manufacturing of the movie — died earlier this month. Whereas he’s positive to thank her ought to he win on March 12, whether or not he mentions Hudgens stays to be seen.
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