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Jami Ganz

Harry Styles’ star power cost him lead role in ‘Elvis,’ says director Baz Luhrmann

Harry Styles missing out on the role of a lifetime might just be a “Sign of the Times.”

The star power of the former One Directioner, 28, may fill stadiums but it’s exactly why Baz Luhrmann didn’t cast him to play The King in “Elvis.”

The Australian director, whose hotly anticipated Elvis Presley biopic is hitting theaters later this month, revealed to breakfast radio show “Fitzy & Wippa” why Styles, 28, didn’t make the cut.

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