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Austin Butler Reflects on His Journey from Struggling Actor to Oscar Nominee · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Austin Butler recently picked
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Speaker 1: up his first Academy Award nomination, where he'll compete for
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Speaker 1: Best Actor for his transformational lead role as Elvis, and
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Speaker 1: the honor has given Austin pause to not only reflect
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Speaker 1: the incredible opportunity to work on this project, but everything
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Speaker 1: that led up to this moment. He tells Deadline, I
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Speaker 1: feel very fortunate for all the people I've been able
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Speaker 1: to work with in these past couple of years, and
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Speaker 1: I just feel so privileged because there were many years
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Speaker 1: where I did not work as an actor, where you
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Speaker 1: go out for a hundred auditions and not book one.
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Speaker 1: I just know as an actor to even be working,
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Speaker 1: you're in an incredibly privileged position. So I'm just fortunate
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Speaker 1: Elvis is streaming on HBO Max that's direct from Hollywood,