(ANSA) - CANNES, MAY 26 - Overweight, with a persuasive voice and a Mephistophelic look.
It is hard then and there to recognize TOM HANKS behind the infamous fat Colonel Tom Parker, who was the manager of Elvis Presley, managing almost his entire career with a commission of 50% (among other things he sold all the music to Rca, obtaining 2.6 million dollars), also responsible according to some for its end.
His performance in ELVIS by BAZ LUHRMANN, presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival with 12 minutes of applause as a world premiere and a lot of emotion in the hall, is chameleonic.
"I've never been afraid of the character, it's my job as an actor to put myself in someone else's shoes. What I did was not to judge him, but to interpret him, even in his shades, on the border between good and evil that also belonged to him", explained Hanks , two Oscars and a career studded with mostly kind, positive characters such as inForrest Gump or The Terminal to name two among the many.
Director Baz Luhrmann called him "brave" and chose him as the central figure of the film ELVIS, recounting his discovery, in 1955, of this unknown white boy with a black voice who was driving Mississippi crazy, entrusting him with the narration of his new work already launched towards the Oscars.
AUSTIN BUTLER, 30 years old, actor, singer, musician,
model (engaged to model Kaia Gerber who was moved by the applause at Cannes) will become the new Hollywood star after this Elvis rehearsal?
The widow Priscilla has predicted the statuette, he is almost back here at the festival as a 'debutante'.
"I spent two years of my life preparing for this role, trying to learn everything that could be done about him, I worked on the similarity, the hair, the style, the look and of course the movements where Elvis was truly unique, but that that most of all I wanted was to bring out his special soul ".
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