The star of Baz Luhrmann’s new film discusses the toll playing Elvis took on him.
, Butler revealed that he took his commitment to the role so far, he ended up hospitalized and bedridden.
Thanks to a delay in production after his costar, Tom Hanks, contracted Covid-19, Butler had the chance to dive in even deeper than usual . Holed up in quarantine, he turned his room into whatdescribes as “a detective scene.” “Just images of Elvis everywhere, from every time period,” he told the magazine. “I think the film would have been very different if we had started shooting at that point, and I’m grateful I had the time to let myself marinate.
That all sounds pretty harmless, but Butler’s immersive approach began to take a toll. He sought advice from Hanks, whose suggestion that he take a moment to read something unrelated to Elvis each day came as a relief. “That gave me permission, because up till that point, I was only reading everything to do with Elvis,” Butler recalled. “I was only listening to Elvis. It was Elvis’s influences and Elvis himself and nothing else.
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