Austin Butler reveals involved provide Tom Hanks gave the younger star to assist him out after the Elvis film

Austin Butler has revealed how he could have been saved from an ’emotional whiplash’ by his Elvis co-star Tom Hanks.

The involved Hollywood legend, 67, supplied the actor 36 years his junior a brand new function in an try to save lots of him from a doable emotional spiral.

Butler earned an Oscar nomination for his efficiency as Elvis Presley within the 2022 biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann, for which he embodied the Hound Dog singer for 2 years, altering his voice and performing commonly as a musician.

The 31-year-old bought so engrossed within the undertaking that Hanks anxious about his well-being when the method lastly got here to an in depth.

informed Butler The Sunday times that Hanks mentioned over dinner one evening, “You’ve immersed yourself so deeply in Elvis that it would be wise for your sanity to move right on to something else.” If you simply bounce off the prepare, you will get emotional whiplash.’

So Hanks supplied him the prospect to land one other function instantly in “this thing I’m producing” – his upcoming TV sequence Masters Of The Air, co-produced with Steven Spielberg.

Ironically, it’s Hanks’ character Colonel Tom Parker’s unhealthy recommendation to Elvis within the couple’s 2022 movie that sends the singer off the rails.

However, Butler agreed and can seem alongside Sawyer Spielberg, Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan within the Apple TV+ sequence when it releases on September 20.

Masters Of The Air follows the journey of the United States Air Force’s a centesimal Bombardment Group throughout World War II, primarily based on Donald L. Miller’s 2007 guide of the identical identify.

Hanks and Spielberg have beforehand collaborated on a lot of WWII tasks, together with Band Of Brothers and The Pacific, so this subsequent work has loads to dwell as much as.

Participating within the nine-part sequence isn’t the one means Butler has been busy.

The rising Hollywood star can also be filming Dune: Part Two, due out in November, and The Bikeriders – which charts the rise of a fictional Midwestern biker gang within the Nineteen Sixties – due out in December.

Off-screen, Butler was additionally lately unveiled as a model ambassador for Yves Saint Laurent.

His busy 12 months is an indication that he’s rising as one of many high actors of his technology.

After beginning on the Disney Channel, Butler additionally starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.