Austin Butler got caught in an Elvis Presley trap.
The Elvis actor revealed that he needed some skilled help to eliminate the music legend’s accent before shooting his recent TV show, Masters of the Air, premiering on Apple TV+ Jan. 26.
“I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis,” Butler admitted in a Jan. 24 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “It was a complete thing.”
The truth is, the Golden Globe winner had to put in additional work than simply dropping the accent, considering he practiced method acting for 3 years to prepare for his titular role within the 2022 Baz Luhrmann-directed biopic.
“I used to be just trying to remember who I used to be,” Butler continued. “I used to be trying to remember what I liked to do. All I thought of was Elvis for 3 years.”
Butler credited his Elvis costar Tom Hanks with convincing him to dive head-first into playing Major Gale Cleven in Masters of the Air, a World War II drama series that also stars Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan.