Arguably one of the best attempts made by an actor to bring Elvis to the screen, Austin Butler has received much due recognition for playing the King of Rock n Roll.
In terms of the Best Actor - Drama category, Butler had to contend against industry veterans such as Brendan Fraser ( The Whale), Hugh Jackman ( The Son), Bill Nighy ( Living), and Jeremy Pope ( Inspection).Ĭonsidering that Elvis was truly Austin Butler's breakout role, it's an incredible feat that he won - proving his performance was so great that it deserved accolade attention. The actor didn't have an easy ride on the way to the top, as he had quite the competition this year at the Golden Globes. Whether Austin Butler actually sang the blues or not, his performance as Elvis is one of the best that audiences have seen from an actor yet, making his Golden Globe win all the more exciting. In this way, it is likely that Presley's heavy drug use and age led to changes in his voice that were impossible for Butler to convey. However, the songs 30-year-old Austin Butler sings solo in Elvis end in 1968, when Elvis would have been 33 years old. Butler's performances throughout the first half of the film certainly assuage any doubt about his vocal abilities: his range and lilting Presley drawl when singing is flawless. While stereo sound (and thus, stereo stems) became the standard of audio production from the late 1960s onward, having access to Presley's original audio does not necessarily explain why Presley's voice was used over Butler's when filming the icon's late years in Elvis.
"We used a lot of the breaths, grunts, and body movements that are Austin, and we'd switch back to Elvis." " If we did end up using Elvis takes, we ended up slicing Austin's performance," Wheeler says on whether Austin Butler did sing in Elvis ( via Variety). Interestingly, this same process was used in the recent Queen Biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. This allows composers like Wheeler to separate each individual instrument in a stereo recording and, in this case, allowed Wheeler to isolate Presley's original vocal tracks and lay them into Elvis. Stems are a recording tool used to isolate tracks in the stereo recording process.
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