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Austin Butler is nominated for ‘Best Actor’ for the 2023 Oscars for his role as the ‘King of Rock’.
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He revealed a few days ago what the diet he did to transform his body into an older Elvis Presley consisted of.
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The actor said that his manager told him that the production of the film wanted to see if he could play Elvis in all its facets.
Austin Butler has joined the list of actors who have made sacrifices on their bodies to show that they can play characters that require extreme physical transformations, such as Christian Bale, who lost weight for the movies ‘El Maquinista’ and ‘El Peleador’.
Some days ago, the 31-year-old American actor offered an interview for the podcast ‘Awards Circuit de Variety’ in which he talked about the movie ‘Elvis’, for which he is nominated for awards Oscar 2023 as ‘Best Actor’.
Between last year and what has elapsed this year, Austin Butler has been a very successful actoras he has won awards such as ‘Golden Globe Award for Best Actor’, ‘People’s Choice Award’, ‘BAFTA Award for Best Actor’, among others.
Austin Butler and the challenge of proving that he can play Elvis older
The American actor confessed that he wanted to show the production of the movie ‘Elvis’ that he was able to interpret ‘King of Rock’ of an older age. According to his account, his manager told him at the time that the production had doubts about whether he could be Elvis Presley over 40 years old.
Faced with this challenge, Austin Butler He decided to show that he could be that forty-year-old Elvis, so he got to work and adopted an extreme diet and high in calories and carbohydrates to achieve weight gain.
Detail the actor who was inspired by what actor Ryan Gosling did to also gain weight. That diet consisted of putting ice cream in the microwave to drink it later. Besides, Austin Butler ate dozens of donuts. However, he admits that after making that sacrifice for a week, he felt guilty, especially since he did start to gain weight.
On the other hand, since the time of the pandemic was crossed in the recordings of the film, the actor began to gain weight, which finally helped him to play Elvis in their different stages of life.
However, he admits that, at times, the filming was complicated because it was not always recorded chronologically. In other words, sometimes they had to film elvis presley young and at another time Elvis older, so they had to resort to other accessories.
Elvis Presley passed away at the age of 42 on August 16, 1977. The interpreter of songs like ‘El rock de la cárcel’, ‘Love me suavemente’, ‘Don’t be cruel’, among others. He was forced to do military service and his death was involved in controversy.
