Austin Butler tried Ryan Gosling's 'Lovely Bone's diet for Elvis.
."My agent actually told me, 'They don't know if you can play older Elvis, so I think you need to gain some weight.'""I'd heard that Ryan Gosling when he was going to domicrowaved Häagen-Dazs and would drink it, so I started doing that," he shared."I would go get two dozen doughnuts and I'd eat them all. I really started to pack on some pounds.
"We were also planning on shooting chronologically at the beginning. That went out the window, especially with COVID and everything. It's just impossible," he said. Shooting the singer's life out of order meant Butler had to undergo quick physical transformations that didn't give him the opportunity to gain the weight naturally.
"You've got to switch back and forth, vocally and physically. Initially, I thought we could take a break halfway through it. I can gain the weight for the later stuff," he said."With the way that we shot it we weren't able to do it, so we had to use different physical things."GET THE ET NEWSLETTER
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