Elvis actor Austin Butler spent two years perfecting The King’s voice - and now he can’t stop talking like him.The 30-year-old actor, who is being tipped for an Oscar for his role in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann-biopic, can’t shake the voice.He said: “At this point, I keep asking people, ‘Is this my voice?’ because this feels like my real voice.“It’s one of those things where certain things trigger it and other times as well it’s, I don’t know.“When you live with something for two years, and you do nothing else, I think that you can’t help it.
It becomes a fibre of your being.“I was waking up at three o’clock in the morning terrified, getting to work and I had two years of doing nothing else.”Butler also revealed that it was “not just moving the hips, but the ankles” to imitate the film’s big dance numbers.He said: “I had to work hard for it.
The thing with him is they weren’t moves, they were coming out of the feel of the music.“So, for me, it had to be about finding the feeling of the music, moving me in that way.
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