{"id":279676,"date":"2019-09-12T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1072751"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:11:17","slug":"ansel-elgort-reflects-on-losing-elvis-presley-biopic-role-to-austin-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ansel-elgort-reflects-on-losing-elvis-presley-biopic-role-to-austin-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansel Elgort Reflects on Losing Elvis Presley Biopic Role to Austin Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ansel Elgort<\/a><\/strong> is speaking out about the coveted acting job that went to Austin Butler<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Back in July, it was revealed that Butler had landed the sought-after role<\/a> of Elvis Presley<\/strong> in Baz Luhrmann<\/strong>‘s upcoming biopic. In order to secure the role, Butler beat out A-list stars like Elgort, Harry Styles<\/a><\/strong> and Miles Teller<\/a><\/strong>. Though he didn’t land the part in the movie, it seems that Elgort, who next appears on the big screen in The Goldfinch<\/em> alongside Nicole Kidman<\/a><\/strong>, is doing just fine. Elgort is actually in production on another highly-anticipated film, Steven Spielberg<\/a><\/strong>‘s West Side Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Everything that is a good role, you have a fight for,” Elgort, 25, tells the Huffington Post<\/a><\/em>. “Goldfinch<\/em> I had to sort of fight for. I did a lot of auditions and made sure I did a good job in those auditions. Same with West Side Story<\/em>. I auditioned for months and months. I kept having to go in and prove to them that I could do it.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Elgort, who rose to fame in the Divergent<\/em> series and secured his A-list status with 2014’s heartbreaking film The Fault in Our Stars<\/em>, is aware that he’s not going to land every role. Sometimes, it just comes down to an audition, and other times, things just don’t fit.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Elgort was on the shortlist to play Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em>, but the role ended up going to Alden Ehrenreich<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“The Han Solo thing, I remember having a terrible audition,” Elgort admits. “With Elvis, I think it just wasn’t right. Or so they thought. That’s fine. Baz has a vision.”<\/p>\n

Before securing roles in Divergent<\/em> and TFiOS<\/em>, Elgort was hustling to get his career going.<\/p>\n

“But now I feel like it’s no big deal. If I don’t get Elvis, that means I get to go do a play sooner,” he says of not landing a role. “That wasn’t a bad audition. I think it was great. I was in the middle of filming West Side Story<\/em>, so it was a little hard. I watched a ton of footage and memorized some of his interviews just to get his speech pattern down and sang a bunch of his stuff. But I wasn’t really prepared.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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imageSPACE\/Shutterstock; Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP\/Shutterstock Ansel Elgort is speaking out about the coveted acting job that went to Austin Butler. Back in July, it was revealed that Butler had landed the sought-after role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming biopic. In order to secure the role, Butler beat out A-list stars like Elgort, Harry Styles and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 11:44:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}