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Who Was Just Cast As Elvis In The Upcoming Baz Luhrmann Movie? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest bas Laarman, who's directed
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  Speaker 1: some of the most iconic and colorful films of our time,
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  Speaker 1: for Mulin Rouge to Romeo and Juliet to the Great
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  Speaker 1: Gadsbeam has been on the hunt for the right actor
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  Speaker 1: to play none other than the King of rock and roll,
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  Speaker 1: Elvis Presley in an up coming unnamed biopic focusing on
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  Speaker 1: his early years, and everybody from Gez to Harry Styles
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  Speaker 1: to Ansel el Goret have been connected to the role,
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  Speaker 1: but Boss has just made his choice and gone with
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  Speaker 1: a far more unfamiliar name, Austin Butler, who might not
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  Speaker 1: be widely known, but has been working regularly since he
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  Speaker 1: was a teenage, including more recently a lead role on
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  Speaker 1: The Carrie Diaries. In a statement, Bass says, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: make this film if the casting wasn't absolutely right, and
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  Speaker 1: we searched for an actor with the ability to evoke
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  Speaker 1: the natural movement and vocal qualities of Elvis, but also
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  Speaker 1: the inner vulnerability of the artist. I knew unequivocally that
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  Speaker 1: I had found someone who could embody the spirit at
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  Speaker 1: one of the world's most iconic musical figures. Austin also
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  Speaker 1: shares quite a resemblance to Elvis. We got pictures up
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