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Hollywood heartthrob Austin Butler, 31, has had a fairly spectacular 12 months and it’s solely February! After gracing Vanity Fair‘s 2023 Hollywood Issue alongside Only Murders in the Building star Selena Gomez, 30, the Elvis star revealed how impressed he is with his dear friend. “I’ve identified her [Selena] for therefore a few years, so it’s good to get to share area with someone for an extended time period, and I’m simply so pleased with her,” he gushed to ExtraTV on Thursday. “Her documentary [Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me] really moved me as well, getting to see that… I thought that was so brave.”
By the tip of the interview, Austin famous that he felt “honored to be in her company” whereas on the set of the Steven Klein photoshoot. During his interview with Vanity Fair, Austin recalled a candy second that Selena shared with him whereas he was filming Elvis. “When I was filming Elvis, Selena found this photograph of the two of us when I did a guest-star thing on her show Wizards of Waverly Place. And she sends it to me, just going, ‘Wow, remember this?’ It feels like another life,” he instructed the outlet. “When you’re a child actor, you see so many people come in from Texas or something, and at a certain point they may quit or go back. We’re just so fortunate to have careers in this industry for this amount of time.”
Aside from his lovely moments with the “Same Old Love” hitmaker, the blonde hunk additionally chatted about his continued success following Elvis. Not solely is Austin glad his success took time, he is also glad he’s older to understand it. “I mean, I had times where I just thought, Oh, maybe it’ll never happen or I’ll never get those opportunities. But now, in retrospect, I can look back and go, if I had some film that hit really big when I was younger, I wouldn’t have had to keep going back to the drawing board and saying, ‘How do you get better at this?’”, he stated.
In addition, the Golden Globe winner admitted that portraying Elvis Presley within the 2022 biopic taught him extra about working in Hollywood and the attainable vacancy that may include success. “I think it’s definitely made me consider who I ask for advice and who I keep close to me. Playing Elvis also just made me think about the fact that you can have seemingly everything and yet still feel empty,” Austin shared. “You can have all your dreams come true and still be searching for something deeper and feel very alone. You experience a ton of public love, then you’re back in a silent room.”
The Carrie Diaries alum has had an increase in his success after starring in Baz Luhrmann‘s film last year. Not only did Austin earn a Golden Globe Award for his work on the project, but he’s earned an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role! Upon receiving the celebrated nomination, the 31-year-old instructed The Hollywood Reporter that his biggest achievement was impressing the late Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley. “Those moments when Lisa Marie and Priscilla got to see the film and then I first saw them after… nothing I would do would ever top that,” he stated within the assertion. “And especially with Lisa Marie not being here with us. I just wish she was here to celebrate today with us.”
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