“Thanks. Thanks very a lot.”
A easy phrase, however actor Austin Butler admits it took him some time to not use his Elvis voice when speaking. That’s after he spent months growing it for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic. To shake it, he needed to rent a dialect coach.
On Wednesday’s The Late Present, Butler talked to host Stephen Colbert concerning the problem of shaking the accent when it got here time to movie his subsequent mission, the World Conflict II miniseries Masters of the Air.
“It was so much,” Butler stated. “I used to be simply attempting to recollect who I used to be. I used to be attempting to recollect what I favored to do. All I considered was Elvis for 3 years.” He added, “I had a dialect coach simply to assist me not sound like Elvis in that movie.”
Butler immersed himself in Elvis’s voice archives.
“I’d hear him say a sure phrase and I’d clip simply that bit out so I knew how he stated that phrase,” Butler stated. “I created my very own archive of how he stated each phrase and each diphthong, and the way in which that he used musicality in his voice.”
Butler’s Elvis efficiency gained him a Golden Globe and earned him an Oscar nomination.
