Interviews With "Elvis" Oscar-Nominated Actor Austin Butler & Sound Designer Wayne Pashley

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" had its world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival, went on to gross over $280 million, and is nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for its leading star, Austin Butler and Best Sound. Austin was gracious to spend a few minutes talking with Zoe Rose Bryant about his process for becoming Elvis Presley, working with Baz, his reaction to the film's success, who he wants to work with next, and more. Following that, the Oscar-nominated supervising sound editor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer, Wayne Pashley, goes into great detail about the sound work for the film with Ema Sasic. We hope you enjoy both conversations. Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Zoe Rose Bryant's interview
0:05.0	with the Oscar-nominated star of Baz Luhrman's Elvis, Austin Butler,
0:11.4	followed by Emma Sassick's interview with the re-recording mixer, sound designer,
0:16.2	and supervising sound editor for Elvis, nominee, Wayne Pashley.
0:21.7	There are some who make me out to be the villain of this here story.
0:27.7	Let's don't let a good thing die.
0:36.3	Are you born with destiny? Or does it just come?...knocking at your door. He's the young singer from Memphis, Tennessee. Give him a warm hayrude! Mr. Elvis Rustley!
0:55.0	Get a haircut, butt a cup!
1:00.0	In that moment, I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero.
1:07.0	Hey, Zoe.
1:10.0	Hi, this is Zoe, Rose Bryant, from Next Best Picture.
1:14.0	Happy to talk with you today.
1:15.8	I'm happy to talk with you as well.
1:17.8	So, first of all, congratulations on the movie, and it's massive success thus far, and all
1:23.7	the accolades and acclaim it's earned.
1:26.1	I'm a huge fan of the film.
1:27.5	It's my mom's favorite movie of the year as well.
1:31.3	That's awesome.
1:32.3	Thank you so much.
1:33.3	Yeah.
1:33.8	I wanted to start by talking about the crazy ride that you and this film have had since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
1:41.3	And I was wondering if you felt like you could pinpoint the moment when
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