Austin Butler revealed what Leonardo DiCaprio had to say about when advising him on working with director Baz Luhrmann.
Elvis starring Austin Butler released in theatres last week and the film has managed to receive positive reviews for the actor particularly. The film follows the story of the King of Rock and Roll and his musical career. One of the film's biggest highlights has been the grand scale of it which is the result of the vision of director Baz Luhrmann.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor opened up about one advice that he received from Leonardo DiCaprio who has worked with Luhrmann twice including Romeo and Juliet as well as The Great Gatsby.
While the duo was on the set of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Butler revealed what Leonardo told him and said, "Leo told me, Baz is going to constantly keep you off balance, and it’s going to pull things out of you [that] you never knew you had inside you,’” Austin told EW. “That’s exactly the experience that I had."
Apart from Butler, Elvis also stars Tom Hanks in the role of the singer's manager. Previously, Hanks also spoke about what he thought regarding the casting of Butler for this role and added that he was convinced early on about why Austin was the perfect choice for the role. In the film, Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker.
Apart from Austin and Tom, the film also stars Helen Thomson as Elvis’s mother, Gladys, Richard Roxburgh who portrays Elvis’s father, Vernon, and DeJonge who plays Priscilla among others. The film was released in theatres on June 24.
After being the in the Hindi Film Industry for 20 years, Shahid Kapoor is finally ready to make his debut as an action hero in the Ali Abbas Zafar-directed Bloody Daddy. The film is gearing up for a premiere on Jio Cinemas on June 9 and marks the first-time collaboration the director with the actor.
Ali insists that action films make the hero look good on screen. “It looks very good when you come up with the wet hair look, flame thrower in hand. It’s a good-looking genre and who will not mind looking good on screen?” Ali smiles.
‘Who the hell will make action films?’ questions Shahid Kapoor
Shahid insists that he wants to do many action films in the near future, but believes that there are not many directors for the genre in India. “Of course, I want to do action but who the hell will make it?
The minute I found the right collaborator, it just happened. I don’t want to force anything into the universe. There is a right time and place for everything. After 20 years of working, you want to invest your time in something you are proud of,” he admits.
‘I want to create aspirational characters,’ says Ali Abbas Zafar
Ali insists that making his actors look good on screen makes him happy. “I have grown up with Hindi and International cinema. All the films back in the day – from Scarface to taxi driver, Sholay, and Deewaar had very well-presented heroes.
They are very aspiring on screen. Those visuals stay with you. The idea is not to play a blind homage to those films but to create an aspirational character on screen. Somewhere, I like that cinema,” he keeps it short.
Watch the full video with Ali Abbas Zafar and Shahid Kapoor below as they opened up about Bloody Daddy and also shared their thoughts on genres of the Hindi film industry, their upcoming films, and a lot more. Watch the fun conversation here.
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