Austin Butler says that acting helped him get over his shyness. 'It was so debilitating to be at a restaurant as a kid and I didn’t want to talk to a stranger so I would whisper to my mom and ask her to order for me.'
.” And not just any movie star, but the kind of old-school throwback to a Golden Age that is becoming rarer and rarer in Hollywood where his talent is as recognized as his star quality.
Since then, Butler has won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award, been nominated for both a SAG Award and an Oscar, hosted the Christmas episode of “Saturday Night Live” and filmed a role in the hotly anticipated “Dune: Part Two.” By now, Butler’s story of landing the life-changing role of Elvis Presley is fairly established. How he pursued the part, working with movement, dialect and singing coaches just for the audition.
The audition process for “Elvis” lasted five months. Were there periods of time when you assumed it wasn’t happening, that they had gone with someone else? You know, I think actors are just inherently insecure. And the amount of times we’ve heard no, or that somebody else is better for the job… you’re always having to manage that little voice in your head that says you’re not good enough, or that that somebody else would be better. So for that week when there was silence, I had to do my own therapy and say, “Even if it doesn’t turn out the way I want, I got to work with one of my favorite filmmakers for five months.
When I started being around people who were making things, I felt their energy, it was like my tribe. It made me enjoy being there. And then I started learning that it was a craft, that you could get better and it just made me want to work harder.I often talk about being shy and I think people don’t believe me. But I was cripplingly shy and it still sort of perplexes me that my passion became acting. But I was grateful to acting because it gave me a therapeutic way out of that shyness.
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