Find out if Austin Butler sings in the Elvis movie trailer

The first trailer of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022) has left fans wonderstruck since its release. Many are wondering if actor Austin Butler is the one singing in the clips.

The musical drama took about two years to make due to the hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The film, based on Rock and Roll King Elvis Persley’s life, also stars Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, who stars as Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s manager.

The Elvis (2022) trailer has garnered a lot of praise on social media ever since its release.

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Does Austin Butler sing in the Elvis movie?

Yes, Austin Butler is indeed singing in the biographical drama.

The 30-year-old actor, who took on the role of the music legend, told Hollywood Reporter: “When I began the process, I set out to get my voice to be identical. That instils fear. So that got the fire burning.”

“For a year before we started shooting, I was doing voice coaching,” The Carrie Diaries star said.

The film’s director, Baz Luhrmann, who has also directed The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge, made it very clear that the film features Austin’s voice for young Elvis, while a blend of his voice and the musical legend’s real voice portrays a midlife Elvis.

Speaking about his process of getting in the character, Austin said: “I watched as much as I could, over and over.”

“I feel such a responsibility to Elvis and to [ex-wife] Priscilla and [daughter] Lisa Marie, and all the people around the world who love him so much,” the star further said.

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A look at the marvellous Elvis trailer

‘There are some who make me out to be the villain of this here story,’ Tom Hanks ominously says in the trailer.

It starts with a nervous Elvis taking to stage and immediately getting heckled by the audience. But, the legend stands tall in front of a room full of people, unfazed and sporting a pink and black jumpsuit.

The crowd is stunned once he starts performing.

Elvis’s wife Priscilla Presley is played by actress Olivia DeJonge, who tries to ease his nerves in the trailer by saying: ‘The way you sing is God-given. So there can’t be anything wrong with it.’ 

We also see snippets of Elvis trying to navigate being in the public eye after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. 

The film hits the theatres on June 24, 2022.

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Fans react to the Elvis trailer

“Sweet lord almighty my ovaries just exploded watching that Elvis trailer,” wrote an overzealous fan on Twitter.

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Sweet lord almighty my ovaries just exploded watching that Elvis trailer

— katherine swathwood (@hey_kay_kay) February 17, 2022

“I just got goosebumps watching the Elvis trailer directed by Baz Luhrmann