Three years after Austin Butler played Elvis Presley in 2022’s Elvis, he and Jeremy Allen White discussed the boundaries they had to navigate while playing real people in light of the latter’s portrayal of Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.
During a conversation for Interview magazine’s fall 2025 cover story, published Tuesday, Butler brought up what it’s like to play “private moments” in the personal lives of characters based on real people. “I remember having moments early on where I was going, ‘Vocally, is this something Elvis would’ve said? Is this how his voice would’ve been?’” he recalled of his experience playing Presley.
Butler went on to say that the experience “becomes a boundary.” He continued, “And then at a certain point you blow the roof off and it’s your soul and his soul merging in some way.”
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