“I am getting rid of the accent, but I have probably damaged my vocal cords with all that singing,” he reportedly said. And so I just trained a lot,” he recalled.Įntertainment Weeklyand other outlets shared a quote not contained in the clip above. “But the other thing is, I think from all the singing, I probably have destroyed my voice a bit-my vocal cords, it’s a lot raspier now. … If I tried to sound like Elvis, I would sound very different right now-I’m not gonna, you have to pay extra for that.”Īustin also has a theory on why his voice may have genuinely changed during the production. You know, we all have different bits of ourselves that we’re releasing. But my voice sounds different when I talk to my dog, or when I talk to my dad, or when I’m here right now. He continued, “And then I thought, I’d have to think consciously to not talk how I am right now. And it really made me self conscious for a second ’cause I thought, ‘Am I being phony? Is this not my voice?’” “To be honest, I’ve really-I heard my publicist told me the other day-I try to stay off social media-so my publicist told me, you know, ‘People are talking about your voice,’ and these sorts of things. “I’m glad you say that, I hear it all the time,” he said with a bit of a laugh. Norton pointed out Butler does in fact sound “a lot less” like Elvis than the 31-year-old actor did months ago, when he was fresh off starring in the film.

Austin Butler can’t seem to escape the shadow of portraying Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 musical biopic.ĭuring an appearance on the Graham Norton Show, Butler-who took home the 2023 Golden Globe in the Best Actor in a Drama category-was asked for his thoughts on the discourse about his voice still sounding like Elvis.

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