Elvis star Austin Butler shared a “pinch me” second whereas selling the brand new movie the place he stars as Elvis Presley. The actor, together with Tom Hanks, leads the solid of the brand new Baz Luhrmann film. Butler revealed he couldn’t imagine his luck when he sat with Paul McCartney, the place they swapped Elvis Presley’s tales throughout a life-altering practice experience.
Austin Butler had the chance to play the king’s archival guitar
Butler turned shut with the members of the Presley household, together with Priscilla, Lisa Marie, and her daughter Riley Keough. He was invited to spend time at Graceland and have a look at and deal with a number of the king’s priceless artifacts, together with his 1956 Gibson J200 guitar.
The acoustic instrument has Elvis’ title printed on its fretboard and is a part of the archival assortment on the mansion.
Keough shared two pictures to her Instagram account the place Butler was seen strumming the instrument in Graceland’s Jungle Room.
“We got to spend time with Austin Butler this weekend in the house, at Graceland. It was such a special and overwhelming experience I haven’t quite processed,” the actor and director wrote.
“One of many sweet things that happened while we were there; Austin played my grandfather’s guitar in the house. Many people haven’t played this guitar. I know it was tuned by Paul McCartney once, but as far as people sitting down and playing it, Austin Butler is one of the few people aside from my grandfather,” Keough penned.
Austin Butler stated he was face-to-face with McCartney on a practice to London
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In an interview with James Corden for his late-night speak present, Butler shared a narrative about sharing a practice experience with Paul McCartney and his clothier daughter Stella to London.
The assembly got here after Butler met Stella throughout Paris Style Week.
Stella invited him to her present. Subsequently, Butler accompanied Stella and her father on a return practice to London.
“Suddenly, we’re on the train,” Butler stated.
“We’re talking. It’s that thing where you tend to meet people you admire in a crowd and can’t speak for more than two seconds. But with this, suddenly we’re locked in a train together. And so, we just talked, and he was so human, and it was just amazing,” the actor continued.
“At one point, Stella said something about Elvis,” Butler shared. “And I took that as my moment. I said, ‘Paul, I haven’t met many people who had the opportunity to be in a room with Elvis. What was it like? What was your story?’”
Austin Butler shares Paul McCartney’s Elvis Presley story
Butler informed Corden that McCartney stated to him that he and fellow Beatles members John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Star didn’t know what to say to Presley upon thier first assembly.
“Elvis picks up a bass guitar and starts fiddling around, and Paul said, ‘You know, I play the bass.’ So, then Paul picks up the bass, Elvis picks up a guitar, and they started jamming together,” Butler revealed.
The tune they performed? “Mohair Sam” by Charlie Wealthy.
Butler had by no means heard of the tune. Stella rapidly rectified the state of affairs by discovering the music on her telephone and cut up a set of earphones for McCartney and the actor to share to take heed to the tune.
“Suddenly, I’m sitting on the train across from Paul McCartney. The French countryside is going by, and she plays the song he listened to with Elvis all those years ago,” a nonetheless astonished Butler shared.
“He’s drumming it out on the table and singing the song to me. And those are those moments where you gotta pinch yourself and go, ‘I can’t believe this is my life right now.’ Then he hugged me, and we went our separate ways,” stated the actor of his “pinch me” second.
Elvis is in theaters now.