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Louise Talbot

Austin Butler’s epic Elvis journey has arrived with a ‘haunting portrayal’ of the rock-and-roll legend

Austin Butler has been in the TV and movie business since he was a teenager, but Elvis took him to the next level. Photo: IMDB, Unsplash and TND

A few years ago, US actor Austin Butler was a teenage heartthrob, melting hearts all over the world in The Carrie Diaries.

This week, the dazzling, cherubic 30-year-old Californian with perfect skin came of age, starring in Baz Luhrmann’s “fizzy, delirious, impishly energised, compulsively watchable … fever dream” Elvis.

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