Interview: Austin Butler talks Elvis after his SNL appearance 

If he does not win the Oscar, it will be a tragedy. Austin is now part of the Elvis legacy.

He was Elvis possessed! Elvis’ spirit inhabited Austin!!!! I think Elvis would have approved of Austin!!!!

Watching this interview I am struck by just how an honest, intelligent, articulate young man Mr. Butler is. Everything about him is so real and authentic. He really did Elvis and Elvis's musical legacy and life proud. No airs, no phoniness, just straightforward and from the heart. Mr. Butler's performance deserves a Golden Globe, Oscar, and Screen Actor's Guild Award.

One of the best interviews I've watched with Austin. Some of the most incisive questions I've heard been put to him. We've got a huge insight into how he ticks while he explored how Elvis ticked: such integrity. An Oscar please!

Austin was chosen by the divine to tell this story and do right by Elvis.

I've seen Austin talk about his experiences making Elvis in so many interviews, yet I can never get bored of hearing his stories and thoughts on his process and craft, he is so thoughtful and insightful. Here's hoping he's cleared a space on his mantelpiece for his Oscar ❤️

this young man's work ethic in learning everything about Elvis is amazing.He deserves the Oscar

How the heck did he do what he did. As an actor, he absolutely embodied Elvis entirely. As an Elvis fan since the 60's and watching Elvis over the years on TV and in Concert, Austin brought him back to life.

To me, there's no doubt that Austin Butler's portrayal of Elvis kicked ass. I love the way he describes Elvis in interviews and I respect how hard he worked to "be" Elvis. This interview was fantastic and I would like to give a huge thumbs up to Vladimir Duthiers for letting Austin talk and not interrupting like many interviewers do. Really appreciate that. He knows his stuff and asked a lot of great questions as did the audience. Thanks for filming this. I agree with Austin when he says, "There's never been a person I haven't met that I've loved more than Elvis".

Austin is a genius himself, massively talented, absolutely mesmerizing, magnificent, he absolutely deserves that Oscar !!!!!!!

Austin Butler was born to play this role fantastic performance 👏 👏

I love the way Austin explains things and the words he uses to describe his feelings...like he has a shock absorber to absorb the pain of losing his mother that he carries through life. Perfectly said.

Austin Butler needs to win an Oscar for his performance! The best movie I have seen in a long time. I have watched it at least 5 times and I will definitely watch many more times. Austin is mesmerizing! I could not take my eyes off him. Austin worked hard on this movie and he definitely needs to win many more awards! This was the most classy acceptance speech I have ever heard. Austin is so sincere, thankful, intelligent, and took this movie very serious . I am so thankful Lisa Marie could see Austin win this award! ❤

I love Austin...incredibly talented, a perfect gentleman, handsome and a class act.

He's so talented. He deserves every award.

I never get tired of seeing Austin interviews. ❤

May I add, Austin very much deserves his Oscar 💖💖

Great interview. Absolutely Austin Butler is amazing. Love the movie. Watched the movie 13 times in the Cinema. Hope he gets nominated for the Oscar.

I have 4 words to say and that’s it. I love this man

From Germany What a special soul and wise young man/actor 🙏😍👌🌹

AUSTIN IS SO SWEET & SINCERE & PROTECTIVE OF ELVIS & HIS FAMILY & CONCERNED THAT ELVIS' FAMILY WOULD LIKE & ACCEPT THE MOVIE & HIS PORTRAYAL OF ELVIS.

Dear Academy, give the man his well deserved Oscar already! 👏👏👏

Austin should have won the Oscar!! He was Elvis!!!!!!!

I hope members of the academy that will vote for best actor see some of these interviews about the beyond extensive prep work he did for this role... it's Oscar worthy in itself !!!! Love this kid.... so gifted and talented......

LOVE THAT SEE-THROUGH SHIRT!

I believe him playing Elvis was chosen by the Divine........he was just wonderful!

Austin always brings Baz and everyone into his dialog and I love that. Such a genuine soul he is. Baz is just brilliant. I hope to have coffee with Baz one day. Just brilliant.

Wow, Austin really did do everything to become Elvis.

Best interview EVER!! It is the most in depth I have seen or heard yet.

Austin my 13 year old granddaughter has watched the Elvis movie over 20 times she even did a virtual Disney 5K run on the treadmill watching the Elvis movie& her Christmas list is all Elvis from a IPhone Elvis cover to Elvis playing cards and it makes this grandmas heart so happy and it’s because of your Phenomenal work you put into Elvis!! I know u have had a lot of great responses I just want u to know you are in my prayers!! As a mom & grandma you having lost your mom at such a young age and hearing about your memories with her are special, I want you to remember when you think of your mom she’s in a place so beautiful they call it Paradise. Until it’s your time for you to enter paradise with your mom please keep your focus on doing everything you can to make her proud because she ( and God) see everything you are doing so you keep that in mind every minute of everyday & in every decision you make! If you EVER and I mean this with the love of a mother for a son (my son is 40) need someone to encourage you and someone you can trust I will always be here for you! I just feel led by The Holy Spirit to be here for you. You can send me an IM via Facebook! Please know every minute of every day your mom is watching over you and sees you and is there for you. I know you have had many experiences of feeling The Holy Spirit in preparing for this role and those feelings are real they not something you imagined your moms with you right now as you read this and is always there for you. May God continue to bless you and guide you today and always. Much Love 💕💕💕🐜🐝

I've watched the film is 20+ times. I see things that I didn't notice before. So I keep watching and watching and never get tired of it . He's remarkable and Oscar worthy ...

He's so humble; such a pleasure to watch.

The humanity in Elvis is really what brought me 8 times to 8 different cinemas and all the team did a fantastic job! Also, the most important person to have approved this cinematographic masterpiece is Lisa Marie Presley.

Watching the movie was just unbelievable. When I left the theater, I felt Elvis was alive. I want to thank Austin for doing the movie and putting his all into it. You truly have done a wonderful job.

AUSTIN DESERVES THE OSCAR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS ELVIS💙🙏

Thank you for noting context and date of this lovely interview. Austin is always genuine and humble. His talent and commitment to his craft are amazing. I wish the very best for him and look forward to seeing his movies shot since ELVIS. BTW, I have been an Elvis fan since he rose to fame in the 1950s. Thank you Baz and Austin for this fantastic movie!

everything about this man is absolut perfection

That is the BEST interview with Austin I have seen.

We’ve heard these stories so many times but I feel like Austin added more details like how he cried and cried the day they wrapped. He talked about his vulnerability as an actor. It was soooo good! Maybe he should do more screenings alone, who knows! But I loved his more fleshed out answers this time!

When he was in the closet crying while holding on to the clothes, it made me cry. I think everyone who lost their mom could feel his pain. I lost my mom when I was 20. 😪

WOW I grew up with Elvis as my Favorite!! Austin IS Elvis and I love him and the interview was the best ever!❤❤

"Wallpaper of culture"...WOW!

Great interview. Really hope he wins that Oscar, he deserves it.

Austin on SNL was Epic!! Jewish Elvis skit was incredible!! This old grandma has loved watching this kid act for years and was so excited to see him in The Shanara Chronicles, since I loved the books!! He was amazing in Elvis, I have seen the movie 5 times and loved it everytime! He deserves every award!!

November 2022 , I went to the Philippines 🇵🇭 on my way .. I watched @elvismovie … Austin butler roles Elvis Presley I was so happy.. I played 6 times all over and over again . I never get tired!❤ that movie 🎥 good jobs Austin butler 👍

OMG. Austin is such a beautiful soul, and he brought ELVIS back to life!!! Such an intelligent, thoughtful and magnificent person. Surely God chose him for this Epic performance. What a blessed man!! What a fantastic interview. The best I’ve read! I’ve watched this movie 5 times and will probably watch many more times. Don’t know if it’s only Elvis but Austin Butler is Elvis again. I cry immensely every time I watch it. Thank you Austin for YOU!!! ❤️🙏🏻🎸💔🥰

That question/statement the moderator brings up regarding introducing a younger generation to the early music business was FANTASTIC and in short… YES! 1000000 times YES! Not only did I go back and read everything about Elvis, his life, his career his circle etc, but I’ve become utterly obsessed/fascinated by the early music business. It’s origins, how it changed and evolved with Elvis. How distribution of “race records” changed with the introduction of Elvis playing black music and figuring out how to package and monetize him. There’s a lot from that time period that will peak a music lovers interest, and to Austin’s point, it’s so easy to completely allow yourself to obsess and dig into such a complex and rich history that I’ve throughly been enjoying discovering.

by far the best interview i've seen of austin... the hard work, the talent, the evERYTHING. He's fantastic. I just really hope he could win the Academy Award but tbh, probably by how young he is, it won't go to him :(

ELVIS THE MOVIE IS BRILLIANT AMAZING FANTATIC ARTISTIC SENSATIONAL , OSCARS GALLORE FOR ELVIS THE MOVIE 👍🥰💙🙏

Austin Butler is. THE BEST 👏👏👏👏👏💫⚡️

A great interview - thank you for posting. Absolutely one of the best I've seen so far (and there have been a lot!) because he was provided the time and space to answer the great questions asked by Vlad and the audience. I really hope he wins the Academy Award, not just for his amazing portrayal of an incredible rebel, icon and legend, but also as recognition for how much of himself he put into this movie. Baz Luhrmann is a genius and the crew, cast and studio have a lot to be proud of. Let's hope there's #anoscarforaustin come awards night. This performance has literally changed my outlook on what it must have been like to be part of the Elvis world!

Austin you are amazing so much work involved acting Elvis Elvis would be so proud of you Thank you 🙏🏽

Great movie seen it several times. I bought it finally. Austin is great

Austin is a sweetheart ❤

This is absolutely the best interview with Austin Butler. The Elvis movie was the best that i have seen and Austin made it that way. He is a fantastic movie that i have watched. Im a Elvis fan for years.

This was one of the best interviews I've seen, a nice long one too which is something always nice to hear as I love listening to Austin speak! Mr. Duthiers' questions were well thought out and Austins' responses were so right on, never caught off guard and just beautiful responses! I really enjoyed it because we were able to spend more time and listen to Austin, which totally makes my heart happy. I loved Austin's movie, Elvis, he was amazing, phenomenal, such a wonderful movie, I watched it 18 x in theaters. I loved it but would love to hear his audition song that he sent to Baz. In his SNL appearance, he has much, much more sense of humor than I ever knew, and "Lois", I am still laughing hysterically over her. But when he broke out singing Blue Christmas, OMG, I cried. Austin has such a beautiful singing voice, make no mistake, that was not Elvis, that beautiful voice was all Austin. God bless him for blessing us, he is in my heart! I see everything I can on him, he is absolutely amazing! 💖⚡💖 I can't wait for the other movies he's done.

I love listening to Austin talk about his experiences in his acting career, or just talk about anything 🥰 His voice is so calming to me, such a soothing calm that just makes me love him all the more. He is very articulate and honest in his speaking. I hope someday of meeting Austin, my comfort would be complete. I love his films so much, especially the Elvis film. He's such a spectacular, phenomenal, mesmerizing person and actor. I could not love anyone more 💖✨💖

Wow! What a terrific interview. I've seen a lot of them and this was one of Austin's best. I learned so much! Thanks for posting.

Austin Butler absolutely killed it on SNL. I have big respect for the man who portrayed EP so well, but I wondered if he could pull off live comedy. He was terrific. It is a MUST SEE! And I was going to be furious if he did not get nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar Best Actor. I cannot wait to see him win! Tom Hanks got robbed, as he was not nominated. But he has won previously.

I'm very pleased with the trajectory of Austin's career. I think he's one of our most talented actors.

one of the best interviews iv ever seen with Austin he is such a lovely young man wishing him all the best for the future

44:51 Sam Bell is the name of the man Austin speaks about here. Search 'Baz Luhrmann interviews Elvis Presley's Child-hood friend Sam Bell' and you wont regret it. RIP Sam

OMG! So many fantastic questions. Thank you for this unbelievably genuine and candid conversation about Austin’s performance, prep, production and most importantly Elvis. So many questions I had or that I’ve wondered about were answered. Also, what a great question to end on. The cast sometimes sticks to quite canned responses; possibly because they are nervous about speaking out of turn or saying the wrong thing. But I genuinely wanted to know what Austin’s thoughts were on that question. What he learned in his research and prep about how Elvis navigated the black and white world. We know that as a teen he would bike down to West Memphis or Orange Mound to join performances with other black teens in the neighbourhood or hang out on Beale street and sort of existed in and was accepted into black spaces at a time when it was unheard of to do so. But we also know that there were parts of him, his experience and his interests that he often had to keep hidden and suppressed even from extended family due to prejudice within his own circles and environment. I really want to know how he walked that tight rope. How he rationalized it. If and when he reconciled it within himself (I believe in ‘68 he did some introspective work during the civil rights movement). I believe that Nelson George, one of the researchers on The Elvis film plans to put out a project going a bit more in depth into this aspect of Elvis life/truth. Into the untold story that this film has honestly only scratched the surface of. I don’t know why Graceland doesn’t dig more and share more about this side of his legacy. They’ve kind of tried to but usually they skirt the issue and the difficult questions and don’t really dive into it with transparency and honesty. But it’s important, if not just for posterity and public record. Especially as that generation ages out and passes on, it’s really just not well documented and that’s a true shame, but this film is a step in the right direction.

Thank you so much for recording and uploading this! We all appreciate it!

I hope this gets him some great movie parts.

Austin ♥️♥️♥️

Thanks so much for filming and uploading this❤

Love Austin in the Elvis movie.Unforgetable actor

He fucking nailed it to‼️

Siiiiiiiiiiii ahora tu eres Elvis 2022

Outstanding Performance

Staying, Elvis had blondish brown hair before he started dying it with his blue eyes. His coloring was a lot like Austin's really is. They both have sheer animal magnetism, Austin is more quiet but his presence is unbelievable and undeniable. Elvis was more raw, more it's amazing how this young man truly embodied him.❤

I saw all his interviews but first time I heard about the Vegas scene where he was showing the musicians the song. Great interview

He’s ON FIRE

I’m a huge fan of elvis Presley’s and I love 💕 elviss music and flims too elvis will always be the king of rock and roll 🎸 my dream is to visit Graceland and communicate with elvis elvis was an amazing entertainer that ever lived tcb all the way elvis will always be the king of rock and roll and I love 💕 elviss music and flims too I always live elvis tcb 🕺⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️1:40pm thanks tlc tce and tcb ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

My favorite Actor is Austin Butler

I dont think you could ask Austin to do any more Elvis than he has already done. I feel like that's just a one-time thing.

This was a great interview & I believe I’ve heard & read almost all

Really sad that he did not. The Whale was a good movie, but he had to give up 2 years of his life, hurt his shoulder, was hospitalized after he finished filming, how to sing the songs, and how Elvis talked. His voice changed as he aged. So much work for it not to be awarded. Also, Top Gun was much the same. Those actors took at least a year out of their lives. It was a very good story as well. The academy got it wrong on a lot of things.

#AustinButlerForTheOscar

Most important you enjoy your performance to act like Elvis Presley

Man they have to be worn out doing interviews about the Elvis movie, almost non stop since May. Great movie and incredible job by Austin

A lot of my students are asking me about Elvis due to the movie. So, thank you, Austin, for teaching a whole generation that, yes, better music existed in the past.

Mereces el Oscar

❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️

That's for sure!!!!

❤❤

I watch Vlad on his news show,he's an Elvis fan. This is a good interview

Story of a much loved American legend and icon, sounds American looks American entirely filmed in Australia!

41:28 was such a good question

Extraordinary performance Austin, just a glorious production. 👌🥃

I totally agree Mandy's Investments. I will never watch Oscar's again.

......and he never knocked over that water bottle,lol

Suspect it related to the sensation of serving as a vessel/channeling, but would love to know exactly what he stopped himself from saying at 41:47.

Would have been a great video, too bad the camera moved around so much, had to shut it off half way through.

If the new Elvis fans of color they can watch how they treated Elvis . Watch Elvis and the black community. It's an eye opener for the ones that are critical of him. They did break his records and accused him of promoting Juvenile delinquency!

He deserved that Oscar 😡😡

Please respect future

I love Elvis Presley, even Austin Butler won the Oscar! I like Austin butler playing Elvis Presley, @elvismovie.

When was he on SNL?