Austin Butler’s Baz Luhrmann Advice From Leonardo DiCaprio

From Titanic’s “King of the World” to the King, here’s some helpful advice. Austin Butler was fortunate to receive some advice from Leonardo DiCaprio while preparing to play Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s new film Elvis, which opens today. After starring as Romeo in Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet, DiCaprio teamed up again with the filmmaker for The Great Gatsby in 2013.

He understood that if he needed advice on what to expect from Luhrmann before working with DiCaprio on Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, there was no one better to turn to than DiCaprio himself. Elvis” UK Special Screening at BFI Southbank in London, England, on May 31, 2022, Austin Butler attends.

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“Baz will constantly throw you off balance and draw things out of you that you never knew were inside of you,” Leo warned me. According to Butler’s statement to EW, What I went through is exactly like what you describe. Some days I thought to myself, ‘Baz, why don’t we just do what we prepared?'” In Butler’s memory. “I realized that he was going to push me to the limit of my abilities. In a sense, you’ve captured lightning in a bottle; if you’d simply done what you’d planned, it could have been less exciting.”

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Butler compares Baz Luhrmann’s style of directing to that of a jazz pianist. “You have to know music theory in order to play jazz,” he tells EW. “In the end, you’re just improvising. You need to know your guitar’s scales inside and out.

You have all the information and practice that you need to play off of whatever is in front of you at this very minute. Because he puts in so much effort in planning, Baz is like that. When it’s time to film, I’ll have spent a year rehearsing a scene, only to discover that it has completely changed on the day of the shoot.” With DiCaprio, Luhrmann has previously shown he can make a movie star out of a blonde heartthrob, so perhaps he’ll be as lucky as Butler.

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