Austin Butler’s Accent in The Bikeriders Trailer

The brand new trailer for “The Bikeriders” simply dropped, and with it got here the query: will we hear Austin Butler’s personal voice ever once more? Having simply shaken his notorious Elvis Presley drawl, the Sept. 6 teaser proved that previous habits die arduous for sure Oscar nominees. In his new function as Benny — the daring bad-boy of the fictional Vandals motorbike membership in Chicago — Butler tries his hand at a Midwestern accent. Abandoning any pleasant “you betchas,” he hardly ever speaks above a low growl, leaving costars Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer to cowl a lot of the lingual bases.

Butler beforehand forgot to cease talking just like the King of Rock n’ Roll lengthy after filming on “Elvis” wrapped in 2021. He informed Graham Norton that every one the discourse on social media initially made him really feel “self-conscious,” attributing the change in his voice to the singing he did for the film. Later, on the 2023 Golden Globes, he admitted it was arduous for him to tell apart between his personal voice and Elvis’s. “I am unable to actually mirror on it an excessive amount of. It is simply this course of — I do not know the distinction,” he mentioned. “I do not assume I sound like him nonetheless, however I suppose [it must be] as a result of I hear it lots.”

To be completely trustworthy, we’re not all that mad at this new Midwestern Butler. Though we’ve but to listen to quite a lot of phrases from his unpredictable character (together with, “you’d should kill me to get this jacket off”), assuming the identical “course of” is at play, we’re ready to listen to this accent nicely after “The Bikeriders” drops on Dec. 1. Learn on to search out out every part else we learn about Butler’s upcoming look.