Vanessa Hudgens and also Austin Butler participate in Sony Pictures’ “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” Los Angeles Premiere on July 22, 2019, in Hollywood. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/ FilmMagic
Austin Butler captured some warm from followers previously this month when he described his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens as an unrevealed “friend” when going over exactly how he landed the duty of Elvis Presley in the 2022 Baz Luhrmann biopic for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Actor’s Roundtable.
However, in a brand-new meeting with The Los Angeles Times, Butler cleaned up that the close friend remained in reality Hudgens, whom he dated for virtually a years prior to the duo split in 2020. “I was with my partner at the time,” he informed the press reporter, that remembered Butler’s tale, in which he remained in the automobile when his “friend” heard him vocal singing along to an Elvis tune and also motivated him to seek the duty of the King of Rock and alsoRoll
“The month before I heard that Baz was making the movie, I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend, and there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio and I was singing along, and my friend looked over at me and goes, ‘You’ve got to play Elvis.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s such a long shot,’” Butler claimed throughout the THR meeting, without stating Hudgens by name. Fans assembled that the High School Musical celebrity was the topic of the tale, as she informed a virtually similar story back on a 2019 episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan
When the LA Times press reporter adhered to up, asking if the individual in the automobile was Hudgens, Butler concurred. “We’d been together for so long and she had this sort of clairvoyant moment and so I really, I owe her a lot for believing in me,” he shared.
