Seems like he got a bit too much into character.
Austin Butler, best known in recent years for starring Baz Luhrmann’s massive Elvis biopic, has revealed he had to work hard to get rid of the accent he developed while preparing for the role.
In an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the Oscar-nominated actor said "I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis.”
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He explained that he became so engrossed in studying Elvis and learning how to become him for 3 years that he got totally lost in the character and struggled to find himself again.
He was signed on to start filming Masters Of Air a week after Elvis wrapped and had to lose all traces of The King.
“I was just trying to remember who I was,” the 31-year-old actor told Stephen Colbert, “I was trying to remember what I liked to do. All I thought about was Elvis for three years. And then I had that week off, and then I flew to London, and at that time it was COVID, so I was quarantined for 10 days. I thought, ‘Alright, just pour all this energy into learning about World War II now.”
Masters of the Air is a war drama series, based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, that follows a group of young fighter pilots who target the Nazi regime during World War II.
The Apple TV+ miniseries is set to debut on January 26th.
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