Austin Butler shared a story about meeting Sir Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS.The 30-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the new biographical musical Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, said he was in awe when he sat across from Paul, 80, for a more than two-hour train ride.'Suddenly, I'm sitting on a trail across from Paul McCartney, the French countryside is going by and [Stella McCartney] plays the song that he listened to with Elvis,' Austin said.
Elvis star:Austin Butler shared a story about meeting Sir Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS'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 ''I can't believe this is my life right now.'' And then he gave me a hug and we went our separate ways afterwards.
It was so special,' he added.'I'm an enormous Beatles fan,' said Austin, who wore a navy pinstripe suit with a sheer black button-down shirt underneath. 'An enormous Paul McCartney fan.
I'm in this place right now where these things are happening.' Austin said the train ride came about after he befriended Paul's daughter Stella, 50, at a cafe in London.
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