Riley Keough shares her emotional response to seeing Austin Butler's portrayal of her late grandfather, Elvis Presley.
star praised Butler's Oscar-nominated portrayal of her late grandfather,"I think he was outstanding and incredible," Keough shared of Butler."I couldn't have imagined anyone being able to pull off what he did in terms of embodying my grandfather. It was really shocking and emotional. It totally blew me away."
Noting that past portrayals of Elvis have felt like a"caricature," Keough said that Butler was able to"capture the humanity" in the legendary singer. "I was in tears for a week because of the film, but also because of his performance," Keough shared, revealing that she immediately texted Butler after viewing the film before she'd met him in person.Keough is following in her musical family's footsteps as she prepares to debut her on vocal abilities in the upcoming Amazon Prime adaptation of the novelat the premiere of the show earlier this month where she touched on the pressures of continuing her family's musical legacy.
"I certainly wouldn't put that pressure on it. I don't know if there is continuing my grandfather's legacy, it’s its own sort of thing to me. But it was a really fun experience for me," Keough said of making the show. "I'm not a musician -- or I am now I guess. I've been interested in film my whole life and so for me, it was more really loving to get to have a relationship with music in that way.
"I've listened to music and my whole family are musicians and I've been around this world a lot and been on tour and all that kind of stuff," she continued."But I'd never really done it myself. So for me, it was more about my personal relationship with getting to play music, which was fun."
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