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Meeting with Austin Butler, the King of Cannes

2022-05-25T14:17:55.471Z


IN COMPETITION – The Californian actor plays Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann's biopic. The conspiracy theory does not hold water. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have nothing to do with it. It was not the stars of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood who deprived Austin Butler of the Croisette and the red carpet in 2019, jealous of the youth and talent of the 30-year-old actor. In Quentin Tarantino's film, Butler plays a hippie cowboy from the Manson family. A small role that is enough to


The conspiracy theory does not hold water.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have nothing to do with it.

It was not the stars of

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

who deprived Austin Butler of the Croisette and the red carpet in 2019, jealous of the youth and talent of the 30-year-old actor.

In Quentin Tarantino's film, Butler plays a hippie cowboy from the Manson family.

A small role that is enough to mark the spirits.

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In May 2019, Butler must make the trip to Cannes, especially since he also appears in Jim Jarmusch's

The Dead Don't Die

, opening the festival.

But Elvis' camera trials fall at the same time.

“I was sad but I had to tear myself away for these tests,”

explains the Californian actor with a hollow voice, a few hours before his first climb of the steps, Wednesday evening.

His day of glory, his coronation.

Elvis does not exist without live music, nor without black culture.

He grew up in a black neighborhood, lived through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, accompanied the struggle for civil rights

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Two biopics have long been deemed infeasible in Hollywood: Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Good luck finding the actors capable of embodying these two monsters…

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