Ansel Elgort Displays on Shedding Elvis Presley Biopic Function to Austin Butler

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Ansel Elgort is talking out in regards to the coveted performing job that went to Austin Butler.

Again in July, it was revealed that Butler had landed the sought-after function of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming biopic. As a way to safe the function, Butler beat out A-list stars like Elgort, Harry Kinds and Miles Teller. Although he did not land the half within the film, it appears that evidently Elgort, who subsequent seems on the massive display screen in The Goldfinch alongside Nicole Kidman, is doing simply positive. Elgort is definitely in manufacturing on one other highly-anticipated movie, Steven Spielberg‘s West Facet Story.

“Every little thing that could be a good function, you’ve a battle for,” Elgort, 25, tells the Huffington Put up. “Goldfinch I needed to type of battle for. I did quite a lot of auditions and made positive I did a very good job in these auditions. Similar with West Facet Story. I auditioned for months and months. I saved having to go in and show to them that I may do it.”

Elgort, who rose to fame within the Divergent collection and secured his A-list standing with 2014’s heartbreaking movie The Fault in Our Stars, is conscious that he is not going to land each function. Generally, it simply comes all the way down to an audition, and different instances, issues simply do not match.

In recent times, Elgort was on the shortlist to play Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, however the function ended up going to Alden Ehrenreich.

“The Han Solo factor, I keep in mind having a horrible audition,” Elgort admits. “With Elvis, I believe it simply wasn’t proper. Or in order that they thought. That is positive. Baz has a imaginative and prescient.”

Earlier than securing roles in Divergent and TFiOS, Elgort was hustling to get his profession going.

“However now I really feel prefer it’s no large deal. If I do not get Elvis, meaning I get to go do a play sooner,” he says of not touchdown a job. “That wasn’t a nasty audition. I believe it was nice. I used to be in the course of filming West Facet Story, so it was a bit of laborious. I watched a ton of footage and memorized a few of his interviews simply to get his speech sample down and sang a bunch of his stuff. However I wasn’t actually ready.”

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