The Bikeriders director Jeff Nichols didn't take much convincing to cast Austin Butler in his '60s-set motorcycle gang drama – in fact, the trailer for Elvis was all he needed to make up his mind.
"[Casting] started with Austin," Nichols says in the new issue of Total Film, which hits shelves next week. "It was before Elvis came out. I’d seen the trailer and there were just enough shots in that to say, 'Oh, that guy has done some serious work here'," Nichols recalls. "The script had been floating around, and it’s a compelling part. So, we had some incoming calls from people that were interested. And I knew that I wanted to meet with this young man. And then I met him."
