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Austin Butler is bringing Elvis Presley to life in the new Baz Luhrmann biopic, Elvis, but is he really singing in the movie? Here's what to know.

He said that his goal was to get his voice to sound so much like Elvis that "if you heard a recording of him and heard a recording of me, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference." He said that what eased his nerves was seeing the crowd's reaction to his performance. Butler revealed what it was like transforming into the King of Rock and Roll in a February interview with the Hollywood Reporter. "When I began the process, I set out to get my voice to be identical. The actor said he watched as many videos of Elvis as he could in order to do the part justice. Since the clips tease there will be plenty of musical performances throughout the film, you might be wondering if Butler actually sings in "Elvis." You'll be happy to hear the answer is yes! Austin Butler is set to have his breakthrough role with " Elvis." The biopic, which is based on the life of Elvis Presley, is set to hit theatres on June 24.

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“I was like, ‘This is what Elvis felt when he was put into the Army,’ ” Austin said. “I get a phone call out of the blue from Denzel Washington, who I did not know. Austin ended up being bedridden for a week after he was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis. “Just images of Elvis everywhere, from every time period,” Austin told the publication. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” As the severity of the pandemic became more clear, production was shut down indefinitely.

Austin Butler revealed that after wrapping "Elvis," his role apparently took a toll on his health and he was rushed to the hospital.

He spent his days holed up in his apartment, which he turned into a “detective scene” about Presley. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished ‘Elvis.'” When the film wrapped in March 2021, Butler had to spend a week bedridden after he was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis.

Austin Butler has said he was rushed to hospital after he finished filming Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley biopic.

“My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.” Butler, who plays Elvis, recalled in an interview with GQ UK how his body “started shutting down” after filming concluded in March 2021. “The next day I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital,” Butler said.

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“He had a hint of the swagger, a touch of the sound.” In addition to wrapping up the film, Butler has several projects lined up. It’s not a film for the faint-hearted.

Austin Butler, who transformed into the legendary music icon Elvis Presley for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic Elvis, revealed that he found himself in a ...

"His mother passed away when he was 23, and my mom passed away when I was 23,” he said. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis,” he said. In an interview with GQ, the actor shared that after production finished, he was immediately “rushed to the hospital” after waking up in pain.

Elvis - The Baz Luhrmann film stars Austin Butler as Elvis Presley, alongside a cast including Tom Hanks.

You’re left with a picture of a talented man who spent his final years caught in a trap – and yes, it is heartbreaking in that hotel. The King himself is played by Austin Butler, and boy does he deliver: from the swagger to the voice, he embodies Elvis and swiftly makes you forget you’re watching the kid from The Carrie Diaries. Baz Luhrmann certainly hasn’t toned his signature style down for this busy biopic that’s both long and fast, zooming in and out of key moments in the singer’s life at speed, with a focus on his relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).

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'Luhrmann has made a woefully imperfect but at times arresting drama that builds to something moving and true. 'I made Elvis Presley.' It was clever of Luhrmann to tell the story of Elvis through the self-serving eyes of Colonel Tom and cleverer still to cast Hanks. The film chronicles the life and career of Elvis from his early days as a child growing up in Mississippi to his ascent as a rock and roll icon and movie star, along with his complex relationship with his manager. He wrote: 'It's not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time, with no variation of pace.' Speaking of the unique framing of the movie, Brian praised: 'It was clever of Luhrmann to tell the story of Elvis through the self-serving eyes of Colonel Tom and cleverer still to cast Hanks.' Story: The biopic is framed with Tom as the narrator, with the film opening on his words 'I made Elvis Presley', before adding 'there are some who make me out to be the villain of this story' He wrote: 'It's not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time, with no variation of pace.' The film critic lauded Austin for not turning his impersonation of Elvis into a 'parody' and instead managing to perfect the 'essence' of the American singer's personality. Speaking of the unique framing of the movie, Brian praised: 'It was clever of Luhrmann to tell the story of Elvis through the self-serving eyes of Colonel Tom and cleverer still to cast Hanks.' The biopic is framed with Tom as the narrator, with the film opening on his words, 'I made Elvis Presley', before adding 'there are some who make me out to be the villain of this story'. Opinions: The much-anticipated Elvis Presley biopic premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night and was hailed by critics as a 'spectacle' in the first reviews

The film is a lavish spectacle that captures the 1950s and '60s with real aplomb.

A whirlwind of a movie, filled with light, colour and sound, it captures the 1950s and 1960s with real aplomb, a lavish spectacle on steroids. But Luhrmann is a director who knows how to put on a show, much like Parker, and in that regard Elvis is the greatest show on Earth. The so-called ’68 Comeback Special, with Elvis dressed in black leather and rocking out raw versions of songs such as Heartbreak Hotel and Guitar Man, is brilliantly staged — more so, as Luhrmann reminds us that it was supposed to be a sanitised Christmas TV show. An Unchained Melody rendition will likely elicit tears, as will real footage of the King cut into the finale. “Crimes of lust and perversions” scream the headlines, with the singer facing jail time. Narrating the film is Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), the mysterious impresario who became Elvis’s manager, craftily sending this boy from Memphis to stratospheric heights.

The 77-year-old wiped away tears as she hugged director Baz Luhrmann after the screening.

“Halfway through the film Jerry and I looked at each other and said WOW!!!” she shared. Austin captured that so beautifully,” she added. “In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and finally done accurately and respectfully. “It is a true story told brilliantly and creatively that only Baz, in his unique artistic way, could have delivered. and we are back in Cannes,” he said. So for that, we are eternally grateful, Cannes.”

Austin Butler beat Tom Cruise in audience response to 'Elvis' which bested Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' with a 12-minute standing ovation.

To find the human within that icon, that was a joy I could do for the rest of my life.” To get to explore that and learn the way he was. In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully,” the entertainer continued. His performance beat out the audience accolades shown to Tom Cruise, star of Top Gun: Maverick, who screened the sequel to his 1986 blockbuster, Top Gun at the festival on May 19. What a character he was.” For starring as Elvis Presley in the feature film Elvis, Austin Butler received a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Of all of the films screened at the yearly film festival thus far, Butler’s performance received the longest ovation.

"You can lose touch with who you actually are. And I definitely had that when I finished Elvis—not knowing who I was."

"I was like, 'This is what Elvis felt when he was put into the Army,'" Butler says. "You can lose touch with who you actually are. "You can lose touch with who you actually are.

Elvis famed Austin Butler has recently revealed how “he was left bedridden” after wrapping up the production of Baz Luhrmann's music biopic.

For the unversed, the actor was officially cast as Elvis in July 2019. My body just started shutting down the day after I finished ‘Elvis’.” The singer-actor mentioned that he was “diagnosed with a virus that caused appendicitis” due to which he was confined to his bed for a week.

Elvis famed Austin Butler has recently opened up on how the role of the rock-star “left him exhausted and bedridden” soon after finishing Baz Luhrmann's ...

For the unversed, the actor was officially cast as Elvis in July 2019. My body just started shutting down the day after I finished ‘Elvis’.” The singer-actor mentioned that he was “diagnosed with a virus that caused appendicitis” due to which he was confined to his bed for a week.

Austin Butler has opened up about the moment he woke up in 'excruciating pain' days after filming ended.

Butler was a former Nickelodeon and MTV star before he began to firmly make his mark on the acting world. “It’s comforting to me now, when I get in the car. “My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.”

"Elvis" actor Austin Butler says portraying the King of Rock & Roll on screen took a toll on his body and he had to be hospitalized.

Austin captured that so beautifully." The role also took an emotional toll on Butler, who said he related to Elvis Presley's life story on a deep, emotional level. Riley Keough, Elvis Presley's granddaughter, has since seen the film.

This relentless 2.5-hour biopic, premiering in Cannes, “lurches about flashing its gold like a drunk old millionaire in a strip joint,” writes Caspar ...

Amongst all this, the familiar problems of biopics emerge—not least the fact that Elvis is an extraordinarily famous icon, and is one of the most imitated people on the planet. The overall effect produced by so much frenetic vulgarity, so many shiny effects, is one of utter exhaustion. The death of Presley’s adored mother is also hilariously fluffed—one moment she’s alive, and the next second Austin Butler is crying over her blouses in a walk-in wardrobe, with barely any mention of the fact that his ma has conked it in the intervening period. Here, we get a hilarious crash zoom on Tom Hanks realizing that the kid he’s hearing on the radio is white; a languorous scene of child-Elvis witnessing a ridiculous “sexy” blues performance in a tent, and taking part in a gospel revival during which he apparently receives the spirit of Black music; there is also expository dialogue to this effect, newspaper headlines about segregation, and a bankrupt scene in which Elvis, already an established star, draws inspiration from an up-and-comer by the name of Little Richard. The director cannot hear a song but he has to chop it up, spin it around, put a donk on it, slow it down, add a breathy vocal, speed it up again, chuck in a gospel choir, hit the echo pedal, and finish it off with an irrelevant rap outro. The whole Greatest Hits of montage are here: newspaper headlines by the truckload; a ferris wheel that turns into a spinning record; a succession of screaming audiences from one town to another; concert posters signifying Elvis’s growing fame, in which his name moves up the bill; money and the trappings of fame.

"What is really important is that his soul comes out," Butler said in a press conference for Elvis at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday.

"And then the tricky thing is being able to be there on the day and have it feel like it's happening for the first time and that it's spontaneous." Butler admitted, "It's like spinning plates, because you want to go back to the specifics. Butler also talked about being obsessed with his character and learning more about the iconic "Love Me Tender" singer: "I just went down the rabbit hole of obsession.

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“My family said I didn’t sound like me anymore,” Austin confessed to the outlet. “You can lose touch with who you actually are," said Austin about his devotion to becoming Elvis on-screen. Even the writer of Austin's GQ cover story, Gabriella Paiella, pointed out that the actor couldn't shake his "husky Elvis” accent throughout their interview.

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He went just the slightest bit groovier for the red carpet, in sharp pointed boots and a custom Celine double-breasted suit with a tiny cornflower-blue flower in his lapel. During an afternoon photocall, he channeled the King in his early days, wearing a crisp spread-collar sport shirt and trousers from The Row, a Cartier watch, and Jacques Marie Mage shades—very much the archetypal ’50s guy silhouette, with just a bit of slouch. And I definitely had that when I finished Elvis—not knowing who I was.” And while the role still clearly has a hold on the native Californian’s speaking voice, it also make sense that he’s still dressing for the part during the rollout.

Austin Butler, who's playing the King of Rock 'n' Roll in the upcoming "Elvis" biopic, revealed he was hospitalized the day after filming ended.

So when I learned that, it was one of those things where I got chills and I just thought, 'OK, I can connect to that,'" he said. He said he began imagining the role from the perspective of someone with glamour used to "hearing screaming fans, and then suddenly you’re just dressed like everybody else in those fatigues." "Masters of the Air" director Cary Fukunaga added: "I was aware when he showed up, he was still very much Elvis."

Speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday (26.05.22), the 30-year-old actor told reporters: "I basically put the rest of my life on ...

Austin Butler and Tom Hanks brilliantly play Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker in this dazzling tale of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.

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