Hollywood comes to the Gold Coast as stars gather for the Australian premiere of Elvis, the biopic starring legendary actor Tom Hanks as well as Austin Butler, who says he woke at 4am with his heart pounding every morning of filming.
Despite its rocky beginnings, Luhrmann said the production went to plan."We actually came in on schedule and on budget.
"So many people gave so much. I mean, the restaurateurs who stayed open just to feed us. It was magical." Hanks did not stop to speak with fans or the media while on the red carpet, instead posing for photos with his co-stars and leaving before the film began.Butler said working with Hanks — his "hero" — was a "dream", and playing Elvis made him nervous "every single day".
"I'd wake up every day around three or four in the morning with my heart pounding, just feeling the weight of it," he said. "That's one of the greatest gifts it gave me as well, because Elvis talked a lot about his own stage fright and his own anxieties and stuff, and he achieved some pretty amazing things.The film has as much glitz and glam as the Elvis era."It was kind of a crazy quantity that I didn't imagine at first," she said."Austin had over 90 costumes as Elvis, and then it just gets into numbers that I can't even think about.
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