Austin Butler

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Since the release of Elvis, Austin Butler has stepped into the celebrity spotlight, winning a Golden Globe, hosting Saturday Night Live, and rolling-out a list of upcoming roles. Willie and Austin got together in New York for a "Sunday Sitdown," to talk about the ride.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:11.2	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:14.2	I've got a great one for you this week.
0:16.2	Really excited to share with you my conversation with Golden Globe winner and now Academy
0:21.6	Award nominee Austin Butler.
0:24.5	Austin of course plays Elvis in the movie of the same name.
0:28.3	He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor Nominated also at the Academy Awards.
0:34.2	He's such an interesting guy.
0:35.8	He didn't have a lot of high profile roles coming into this role as Elvis.
0:40.8	He done some of the Nickelodeon and Disney stuff, the Hannah Montana, the Zoe 101 stuff early
0:46.9	in his career.
0:47.9	He really wanted to be an actor from a young age.
0:50.5	Growing up very close to his mom, you'll hear him talk about kind of playing characters
0:55.6	to make his mom laugh, to make his mom happy.
0:59.2	He just kind of rolled into this acting thing and had big dreams, big heroes, watched
1:04.2	old movies as a kid.
1:05.8	Kind of thing he wouldn't expect from.
1:07.1	He's 31 years old.
1:08.1	So he kind of grew up in the 90s, but he was watching old James Dean movies.
1:14.8	He has this long list and this long library that he loves and wanted to be a serious actor.
1:20.6	He went to Broadway after his Nickelodeon days, played in Iceman Cometh with Denzel
1:25.3	Washington, who eventually recommended Austin Butler to director Bos Lerman for this Elvis
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