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Sean Zanni // Getty Images March 31, 2023: Kaia and Austin Spend Time at a Children's Hospital in Los Angeles I threw all my eggs in one basket,” said Butler, now 30, with a lingering hint of a honeyed drawl, of the immersion he undertook to nab the coveted lead in Luhrmann’s big-budget gamble “Elvis.” “I knew that the only way that I could do it was if I gave it everything that I had.” By July, after undergoing months of Elvis workshops — and an unsolicited call from Broadway co-star Washington, who told Luhrmann, “You’re in for a surprise when you see the work ethic of this young man,” said the director — Butler had beaten out the likes of Miles Teller and Harry Styles for the role. Then the work of finding and translating Presley’s heart and soul began. When Luhrmann watched the submission from Butler, a young actor he didn’t know anything about, “it didn’t feel like an audition,” said the Oscar-nominated “Moulin Rouge!” director. “It felt like a spycam.”

Baz Luhrmann’s erotically charged biopic “Elvis” doesn’t just reinvigorate the Presley myth, it resurrects the King and makes him relevant again. Butler played James “Wilkie” Wilkerson in the ABC Family series “Switched at Birth” about, well, two teens who were swapped at the hospital as babies.He added, “I was dealing with grief, but it was also this feeling that I wasn’t aligned with something that felt truly fulfilling. I got done with that show, once they canceled it after two seasons, and I said, ‘I would rather not work as an actor than ever do something like that again.'” Reports that Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler had split emerged in January 2020, with the news following a long social media silence, and coming after the couple spent the holidays apart. Then the universe called. Or rather, his agent did, to say that filmmaker Baz Luhrmann was making a movie about Presley’s life. I was sort of embarrassed about some of the things that I had to do,” Butler admitted in 2022. “But I had to cut my teeth somewhere, so I decided to treat each one of these jobs as a way to grow.” Everyone has some notion of who Elvis was, “but what gets lost is that the guy is just a guy — it’s the humanity of him,” Luhrmann said. “My number one mission was to humanize him. And that might have been my mission, but Austin Butler was the one that flew the plane. ... It was probably the hardest thing. This is the most impersonated man on the planet. But the humanity, Austin had from the get-go.”

Butler appeared in two episodes of “Hannah Montana,” with his second appearance playing Derek Hanson, Hannah’s blind date in Season 2 Episode 7, titled “My Best Friend’s Boyfriend.” That was the test that I saw in front of me,” said Butler, who likened it to being a detective, piecing together a psychological profile with what clues he could find. “How do you take Elvis, who’s seen as this icon or this caricature, strip all that away and find out who he really was as a man?” Diving into the researchButler is confirmed to play Feyd-Rautha, the evil nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and the heir to the Harkonnen empire in the “Dune” sequel, helmed by Denis Villeneuve. Kaia and Austin are red carpet official. The duo attended W Magazine's Best Performances in Los Angeles, where they were photographed together in pics obtained by JustJared. W Magazine even shared a cute pic of Austin kissing Kaia's cheek. March 22, 2022: Kaia and Austin Travel to Paris I wanted to feel what he was feeling, and he wasn’t looking at himself. He was looking at Little Richard. He was looking at Howlin’ Wolf and Big Mama Thornton and all those incredible artists down on Beale Street,” Butler said. “You’ll see a move that Little Richard does and you go, ‘That’s how Elvis moved. Is that where he got that?’ Elvis was kind of a magpie where he pulled things from a lot of different places.” ‘She loved him so much’

Austin, who is nominated for Best Actor, Drama for his performance as Elvis Presley in the 2022 Baz Luhrmann film, Elvis, said that choosing who would come with him to the Golden Globes was "hard," but that "it'll be nice" to attend with his "one and only sister." This means we likely won't see another adorable red carpet moment between Austin and his GF, Kaia, but we'll be looking forward to seeing the 31-year-old actor hit the awards ceremony with his sister, Ashley. September 3, 2022: Why Did Austin Butler Skip Kaia Gerber’s 21st Birthday?Coming off his intense, years-in-the-making “Elvis” shoot, his body immediately went into crisis mode, he told British GQ, and he was briefly hospitalized.