Austin Butler tried his best to accurately represent Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis.

An actor who was nominated for an Academy Oscar discussed the lengths he took to depict the character in a clip for this week’s episode of the Variety Awards Circuit podcast.

Butler, who is 31 years old, admitted that in order to play an older version of Elvis Presley in the biopic, which charts the rise to prominence of the iconic music icon at various points in his career, he had to put on weight. In the movie, Butler portrays an older Elvis Presley.

I’ve heard rumors that Ryan Gosling heated Haagen-Dazs in the microwave before eating it while filming The Lovely Bones. He explained that I had reached the point where I was doing it.

He admitted that he donned a body suit in the movie sequences where he played Elvis Presley, but he also said that he did everything he could to get ready for the parts.

So that I could eat them all, I would go to the supermarket and purchase two dozen doughnuts. I had started to gain weight tremendously by this time. It’s enjoyable for about a week, but after that, you start to feel self-conscious,” he said. Yet, starting the filming in the right order was part of our initial plan. In light of COVID, in particular, it was abandoned quite rapidly. It was totally difficult to pull off.

At a press conference conducted in May at the Cannes Film Festival, he made this revelation. He claimed that during the two years that the film’s production and release date was postponed owing to the COVID outbreak, he “put his life on rest” in order to learn “everything” about Elvis Presley.

“All of a sudden, I discovered myself sliding down an infatuation rabbit hole. He continued, “I spent two years studying him, and I separated his life into periods of time where I could hear the differences in how his voice and movement altered throughout the years. As I could hear the changes in his voice and movement as they changed with age, I split his life into periods of time.

As he was at Jimmy Kimmel Live! He said the following back in January. I’d say altogether it was a nerve-wracking experience. The fact is that I let my fear dictate how I behaved, he said.

He admitted that he had recordings of Elvis Presley’s voice, which he would “listen to every day – his laugh, different songs” for “hours,” and which he also listened to throughout the performance.

Butler told Jimmy Kimmel, “And then once I was authorized to leave the apartment, I would usually wake up every day around 3 or 4 in the morning with this horror,” in reference to the time he was permitted to leave the apartment.