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New Delhi, Jun 23 (PTI) The incredible pressure of portraying Elvis Presley on the big screen with Baz Luhrmann"s "Elvis" had a positive effect on actor Austin Butler, who says the movie helped him become a fearless person.
The biographical musical features Butler as Presley, the iconic musician known as the King of Rock and Roll, who ruled the 1960s and 70s with his music and dance moves.
Butler, who broke out with his performance in Quentin Tarantino"s period drama "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", said he was most interested in knowing in knowing the person behind the icon.
"My relationship to fear has changed a lot because of the amount of pressure I felt during this whole process...
At the end of the day, it was all about finding his humanity.
I was most fascinated about stripping away the icon, stripping away the caricatures or the Halloween costumes of Elvis and getting down to who he was in an empty room by himself at the end of the day.
"How did he wake up in the morning? What was his inner life? And he was an incredibly sensitive spiritual man.
It was just about finding how he evolved over the years.
That was sort of my process," the actor said in a virtual press conference, also attended by PTI.
Butler, 30, said his "relationship with fear has changed a lot" because of the pressure he felt during the movie"s production.
"It was such a responsibility.
I had such a fear that I was going to fail him and fail his legacy or his family and all the fans around the world who love him so much.