When any musical biopic hits theatres, the query on everybody’s lips is usually “Is that the actor’s actual singing voice?”
The identical query is being requested about Austin Butler, who performs Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann‘s new movie Elvis.
The Aussie director has answered all our questions by releasing a video of an early take a look at display to Instagram, which exhibits Butler enjoying guitar and singing a Presley track.
Luhrmann factors out that that is even earlier than he went by two years of vocal coaching –– so it is fairly spectacular simply how shut the actor is to nailing Presley’s drawl.
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Luhrmann accompanied the video with a prolonged caption championing Butler’s singing prowess.
“The response to Austin’s model of ‘Hassle’ has been large however so a lot of you continue to ask, ‘is it Austin singing?’,” he wrote. “I really feel I have never been clear sufficient in conveying that Austin sings all the younger Elvis within the film, so forgive me.”
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He defined the context of the clip: “I assumed you would possibly discover this very early digicam (2019) take a look at fascinating as Austin and the fellows are simply jamming whereas we take a look at our lenses.”
Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough additionally shared the clip, including, “One of the outstanding elements to me about Elvis that folks might not know (as a result of he is completed such an unbelievable job) is that Austin Butler is singing all the early Elvis vocals himself.
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“Baz shared this clip right this moment from an early display take a look at of Austin that I wished to repost as a result of what he was capable of do is simply so stunning.”
Butler says that he was “stuffed with terror” earlier than filming the large musical numbers for the film.
“I used to be nervous and afraid of the large numbers with tons of extras, to go on the market and carry out in entrance of lots of people,” he admitted in behind-the-scenes footage from Elvis.
Butler added that the hair and make-up staff undoubtedly helped him really feel extra just like the rockstar. “It helps massively, once you look within the mirror and also you begin to see the transformation,” he raves. “It makes you are feeling completely different. It actually does.”
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