From the doughnuts, along with the melted ice cream, Butler's body changed. “I really started to pack on some pounds,” he said.
When the 31-year-old's agent told him he needed to gain weight to play the older version of Presley, he knew needed to make it happen. His solution? Microwave Häagen-Dazs ice cream and drink it.. “And then you feel awful with yourself. But we were planning on shooting chronologically in the beginning. That quickly went out the window, then especially with COVID. It was just impossible.”, shared in the interview that he would also buy two dozen doughnuts and eat them all.
Butler explained that Ryan Gosling was the inspiration behind the melted ice cream weight-gaining tactic. Gosling reportedly used the strategy while prepping for a"Lovely Bones" role he was originally casted for butDespite Butler going"down the rabbit hole of obsession," as he put it, completely changing himself for the role, he revealed he ended up wearing a body suit for the scenes he filmed as the older Presley.
"And I broke down his life into periods of time where I could hear the differences in how his voice changed over the years and how his movement changed over the years and I spent two years studying, trying to find his humanity as best as I could through that,” he said.Jordan Greene is an editorial intern at TODAY.com. She is currently studying magazine journalism, political science and religion at Syracuse University.
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