Overweight, with a persuasive little voice and a Mephistophelian look.
It is hard at the moment to recognize
TOM HANKS
behind the infamous plump Colonel Tom Parker, who was Elvis Presley's impresario, managing almost his entire career with a 50% commission (among other things, he sold all the music to RCA, earning 2.6 million dollars ), also responsible according to some for its end.
The proof of him in ELVIS by BAZ LUHRMANN, presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival with 12 minutes of world premiere applause 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 its nuances, on the border between good and evil that also belonged to him" , Hanks explained, two Oscars and a career studded with mostly kind characters,
positive as in Forrest Gump or The Terminal to name two of 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.
"I tried to know everything about Tom Parker, he was a character with a mysterious past, an illegal immigrant from Holland, a circus manager. I heard from many people that he was a special man who lit up every room, he was curial and brilliant at the time. himself, "Hanks said.
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 .
"I tried to know everything about Tom Parker, he was a character with a mysterious past, an illegal immigrant from Holland, a circus manager. I heard from many people that he was a special man who lit up every room, he was curial and brilliant at the time. himself, "Hanks said.
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 .
"I tried to know everything about Tom Parker, he was a character with a mysterious past, an illegal immigrant from Holland, a circus manager. I heard from many people that he was a special man who lit up every room, he was curial and brilliant at the time. himself, "Hanks said.
I tried to know everything about Tom Parker, he was a character with a mysterious past, an illegal immigrant from Holland, a circus manager.
I have heard from many people that he was a special man who lit up every room, he was curial and brilliant at the same time, "Hanks said.
I tried to know everything about Tom Parker, he was a character with a mysterious past, an illegal immigrant from Holland, a circus manager.
I have heard from many people that he was a special man who lit up every room, he was curial and brilliant at the same time, "Hanks said.
"He was a con man, a slob with a card game habit, but also a person with extraordinary intuition. The story should give Parker what he owes him for helping to create the phenomenon that was Elvis Presley. Baz has said there was no Elvis without Colonel Tom Parker and no Parker without Elvis, it was a completely symbiotic relationship, "he explained.
"Parker's great intuition was - he continued - when, at the beginning of that kid's overwhelming success, he didn't pay attention to how he was wriggling on stage, to the way women looked at him. He realized that Elvis was like a forbidden fruit and you can make a lot of money with forbidden things. "
AUSTIN BUTLER
, 30 years old, actor, singer, musician, model (engaged to the model Kaia Gerber who was moved to the applause yesterday at Cannes) will become the new Hollywood star after this Elvis test?
The widow Priscilla predicted the statuette, he is almost dazed 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 likeness, the hair, the style, the look and of course the movements in which Elvis was truly unique. , but what I wanted most of all was to bring out his special soul. I had - said Butler - an immense responsibility paid off by the all-encompassing experience with Luhrmann and by the compliments of Elvis Presley's family.
