Austin Butler received advice from Leonardo DiCaprio on working with Baz Luhrmann

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Austin Butler portrays the late Elvis Presley in Elvis and he was thankful Oscar-winning star Leonardo DiCaprio - who has worked with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann twice, on 1996's Romeo + Juliet and 2013's The Great Gatsby - had given him some insight in the way the Australian director likes to push his cast. The 30-year-old, who worked with Leonardo on...

Cast member Austin Butler poses as he arrives at the London screening of 'Elvis' in London, Britain, on May 31, 2022.Austin Butler portrays the late Elvis Presley in Elvis and he was thankful Oscar-winning star Leonardo DiCaprio - who has worked with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann twice, on 1996's Romeo + Juliet and 2013's The Great Gatsby - had given him some insight in the way the Australian director likes to push his cast.

"That's exactly the experience that I had. There were days where I just thought, 'Baz, why don't we just do what we prepared?' That's how Baz is because he works so hard at preparation. When it comes time to actually film, I'll have been preparing a scene for a year, and suddenly, the day of, the entire scene changes."

He said: "I was really nervous about [the performance scenes]. Because I'd never performed in front of a crowd before. I never sang in front of anybody except my very close friends before.

 

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