Baz Luhrmann: Thank You Very Much

Literally! With Rob Lowe

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Rob and Baz are Elvis super-fans! Iconic filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (director of The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge!, Elvis, and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet) joins Rob to discuss his latest work, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, memories with some of the greats (including Barbara Streisand, Prince, Paul McCartney, and Elton John), the reflection between K-Pop group BTS and Elvis, learning how to ride horses in armor for his upcoming Joan of Arc film, and much more. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! In an upcoming episode, we're celebrating the moms in our lives with a special MOTHER’S DAY THEMED LoweDown Line. If you've got a question for Rob about what to get that mother figure in your life, leave him a brief message at 323-570-4551. Make sure to drop a few details about who she is and what she likes so Rob can make a great rec. Your question could be featured on the show!

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0:00.0	Maybe the most beautiful man ever photographed, I think.
0:03.1	Well, you know, you're a pretty good looking yourself, right?
0:06.0	Well, thank you.
0:07.3	Thank you very much.
0:19.8	Hey, everybody.
0:20.7	Welcome to literally the Autour. Hey, everybody.
0:32.1	Welcome to literally the autour, the great, the inspiring Baz Luhrmann is here today.
0:41.1	You know, one of my, one of my favorite filmmakers, but he has, no, not but, and, and he has,
0:48.2	his new documentary feels reductive. It's not, it's, it's so much more than that. It's, it's one of my favorite movies of the year. I just saw it two nights ago. Epic. Elvis Presley in concert.
0:58.6	It's all archival footage that he found when he was making the Austin Butler dramatization of Elvis's life.
1:02.0	It's absolutely insane.
1:04.8	Insane.
1:06.3	So all the way from Australia, over multiple time zones.
1:10.8	I bring to you Baslerman. Music So all the way from Australia, over multiple time zones.
1:12.5	I bring to you Basler, men.
1:22.3	I feel like I'm busy all the time, even when I'm in between things.
1:22.9	You're the same?
1:24.3	Yeah, I think so.
1:32.2	I mean, I think you just naturally, I mean, it's kind of inherent in you or not, you know?
1:37.0	I mean, I probably has something to do with the way you brought up as well on what your life journey has been.
1:50.3	But if I'm not moving forward, I probably go the other way, you know, probably on the few occasions in my life that I haven't found myself moving forward,
1:55.1	I kind of get, you know, sucked down into a vortex, you know.
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