Austin Butler gives Vanessa Hudgens credit for helping him with ‘Elvis’ role

“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,” Austin Butler said about Vanessa Hudgens saying he should play Elvis Presley. #OscarNominations2023 #Oscars2023 https://t.co/weHe1XmfYd

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 24, 2023

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While reacting to his Oscar nom to the LA Times he did thank Vanessa

“I was with my partner at the time. 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.”