Elvis accent before shooting Masters Of The Air.During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the Oscar-nominated actor explained how he only had a week between filming Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic and his new World War II series, so he needed help getting rid of the accent.“I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis,” Butler said. “I was just trying to remember who I was.
I was trying to remember what I liked to do. All I thought about was Elvis for three years. And then I had that week off, and then I flew to London, and at that time it was COVID, so I was quarantined for 10 days.
I thought, ‘Alright, just pour all this energy into learning about World War II now.’”Masters of the Air, which is based on Donald L.
Miller’s book of the same name, follows a group of young fighter pilots who target the Nazi regime during World War II. The Apple TV+ miniseries premiered today (January 26).Butler noted how he’d dedicated years of his life to playing Elvis, and subsequently couldn’t shake the accent.
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