Austin Butler Finally Gives Ex Vanessa Hudgens Credit for Elvis Inspo
"I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend," he recalled. "And there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio and I was singing along and my friend looked over at me and goes, ‘You've got to play Elvis.' I said, 'Oh, that's such a long shot.'"
The "friend," as Austin called her, doubled down on the idea, telling him a couple weeks later that he needed to "figure out how you can get the rights to a script" after she heard him perform on a piano. Afterward, Austin said, his agent called with news that an Elvis movie was in the works.
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