- Hi, I'm Austin Butler.
And I'm here with Buzzfeed
to answer questions with puppies.
I'm so excited.
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Bring in the puppies.
Oh my God.
Hello?
Hello.
Hi, what's your name?
Oh, hello.
Oh my God.
Oh my God the puppy breath.
It kills me.
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Amazing when you have like watched footage
for so long and then you finally get
to see all the work that goes
into costumes and stuff.
Oh, you're so sweet.
(dogs growling)
Hey, hey, hey.
No, no, no
No, no.
What was,
what was the question?
It was five months of Baz
and I exploring and,
you know,
experimenting with things.
We had so much fun together,
but it was a long process.
It's such a terrifying thing
because Elvis has the most iconic voice.
I listened to him every day and I worked
with some of the best singing coaches that I could find.
And we just had so much fun getting
to explore that death time.
It is so hard to answer questions when you're surrounded
by puppies.
Right now I'm just focusing on
on one thing at a time.
I'm just acting right now.
But I love music and I had so much fun.
Oh my gosh this little guy
You wanna play me?
My buddy,
Callum Turner.
I mean we don't necessarily look identical,
but I think he knows me very well.
So yeah that would be nice.
You know the surreal thing is when you see like
in this film the Manson part of the world,
and it's weird that I,
I lived in that in a whole different realm.
What are you doing?
It would be weird to see them all in the same room.
Oh, Tom is just the greatest.
I've known who he was my entire life.
So yeah that watch tastes good.
It was amazing to get to work with him.
He's just the nicest guy.
And I was really nervous before
because it's that thing of meeting your heroes.
And he just turned out
to be the most openhearted generous guy.
And we had so much fun together.
I, "Romeo and Juliet,"
I saw that when I was very young
and I didn't know movies could be made like that.
So that,
that film really impacted me.
It was an incredibly immersive experience.
Australia is such a wonderful place.
And so I just got to go to the beach every day
during the six months that the film was shut down.
And so I could just completely immerse myself
and it really allowed for that.
And the people out there are so great.
So kind and yeah,
we had a great time.
I don't know.
I auditioned for so many roles
in my life that I didn't get.
And that's the whole,
I remember when I started people would say you have
to audition
for a hundred things before you book one.
That was a lot of the beginning of my career,
like auditioning for the "Hunger Games"
or any one of those things.
Oh, maybe "Succession?"
I love that show so much.
Ashley Tisdale,
She's definitely is your answer.
Yeah, hey.
Right on the lips.
I just,
I feel so grateful
that people have watched anything that I've done.
So the fact that people even use the word fan,
I just feel so flattered by it.
Thank you everybody who's ever wanted to watch something
that I've done.
I don't know.
I, it's,
it's weird that there's so many little like Lily pads
that you sort of jump on that get you
from one moment in your career to the next.
I think a big one for me was when I did,
I did this play in New York,
that one with Denzel called "The Iceman Cometh."
That was a goal of mine
for a long time to do a play in New York.
And so that was very,
that was a special moment.
Oh man.
So all of them like Leo
and Brad and Quentin were all
beyond heroes for,
for my whole life.
So suddenly being on set with them,
I, it felt like a dream.
It was,
it was so surreal.
And, and then they were all just,
they went far
beyond anything that I could have imagined
as far as like their generosity
and kindness and work ethic
and everything was just,
it was so cool.
I think ah "Raging Bull."
I've wanted to watch that again
for the first time as though I've never seen that.
Yeah, Sean Cassidy and David Cassidy, both.
They gave me a lot of advice around it,
'cuz Sean especially told me
a lot about just longevity and like mentorship
and that sort of thing.
So that was,
don't bite the puppy.
Even putting my name in
the category of that feels so strange to me.
I grew up right next to Disneyland.
So going to Disneyland,
that was the thing that I did
with my mom a lot when I was a kid.
So, the idea of just going there
and walking around for hours sounds really fun.
Yeah, I usually take a prop home.
I, I took many things from Elvis
but one is the leather jumpsuit.
It's not even called a jumpsuit,
but the leather 68 special
that he wore that I took that home.
Maybe "American Trilogy, "
but I wouldn't want to live a life
without all of Elvis' songs.
But yeah,
"American Trilogy"
'cuz it,
because there's,
it's basically three songs in one.
Thank you, Buzzfeed.
Thanks for letting me play with these puppies today.
Be sure and go see Elvis in theaters very soon.
All of these puppies are adoptable
at the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County.
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