Austin Butler Recalls the 'Amazing' Moment He Asked Paul McCartney About Meeting Elvis
justjared.comAustin Butler is looking back at a “pinch me moment” he shared with Paul McCartney. During an appearance on The Late Late Show Thursday night (June 23), the 30-year-old actor, who plays Elvis in Baz Luhrmann‘s new biopic, revealed that he had spent a very special two-hour train ride with the 80-year-old performer. Click inside to read more… Austin explained that he had befriended Paul‘s daughter Stella during his time in London and she’d invited him to her fashion show in Paris.
He recalled, “She heard I was there [in Paris] and then she called me and said ‘Hey I heard you are in Paris would you be able to come to my show tomorrow morning at 11 am?’ I said ‘Stella, I’m on a train heading back to London at 11 a.m.
so I don’t know if I can’. And she said ‘Well if you can get your train moved and you come to my show at 11 then you can ride the train back with me and my dad.’” “I’m sitting across from Paul,” he continued. “We are talking and it’s that thing where you tend to meet people that you really admire in a crowd and you can’t speak for more than two seconds but with this suddenly we are locked in a train together and we just talked and he was so human.
It was just amazing.” He added that his favorite moment came when Stella played a song her dad had previously listened to with Elvis Presley. “Suddenly, I’m sitting on a train across from Paul McCartney, the French countryside is going by and [Stella McCartney] plays the song that he listened to with Elvis,” Austin shared. “And he’s drumming it out on the table and singing the song to me and those are those moments where you just have to pinch yourself.
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