Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler as the gyrating rock ‘n’ roll icon, has been streamed for a total of about 2.7 billion minutes by HBO Max viewers in the U.S. since it came to the platform Aug. 8, 2022, according to new data from Nielsen. That makes “Elvis” the most-streamed title on U.S. subscription services among the films nominated for in the Oscars best picture category this year — but only if you are looking at the platforms for which Nielsen reports metrics. What’s important here: Nielsen’s Streaming Content Ratings do not include Paramount+, which added “Top Gun: Maverick” on Dec. 22, whereupon it became the service’s most-streamed movie premiere to date. Nielsen also does not report streaming estimates for Showtime, which has the rights to best-picture frontrunner “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Austin Butler Talks Being Inspired By Leonardo DiCaprio’s Journey, Says He’s Glad ‘Elvis’ Success Is Happening In His 30s And Not Before
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Austin Butler is happy his “Elvis” success is happening in his 30s and not when he was younger.
The actor is one of 12 young stars featured on Vanity Fair‘s 2023 Hollywood cover, and in his accompanying interview he talks about being inspired by Leonardo DiCaprio’s journey.
He shares when asked whether he remembers what he thought his career would look like when he started going to auditions as a teenager, “From the very beginning, when I first got on set, it was just a neat thing that I could do as a 12-year-old kid. Then once I started going to acting class and realized there’s a craft behind it—that sort of became this addiction for me. Addiction might be a strong word, but obsession with finding honesty, really.
“I started looking at a lot of different people’s careers. And Leo, when I was about 15, became that guy, because he’d made that transition. Every film that he chose, you could see the level of passion that he still had for the work.
“And that’s been a surreal thing, looking back at what my dreams were when I was 15, and then getting to work with the people that he got to work with, getting to be on set with him. There’s a lot of these pinch-me moments in my life and that’s definitely one of them.”
The reporter mentions how “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann had said he was on a similar path to DiCaprio, but that being over 30 years old would be a “huge benefit” to him.
Butler says of whether Luhrmann had told him that too, “Yeah, he did. He said, ‘I think that it’s probably very healthy that this is happening now that you’re in your 30s.’ I remember being younger, being 16 or something, and comparing myself to what I saw in Leo’s career when he was 19 or something, going from ‘Gilbert Grape’ and ‘Basketball
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