Austin Butler Reveals Why He’s ‘So Proud’ Of Pal Selena Gomez: Watch

Hollywood heartthrob Austin Butler, 31, has had a beauteous awesome twelvemonth and it’s lone February! After gracing Vanity Fair‘s 2023 Hollywood Issue alongside Only Murders successful the Building star Selena Gomez, 30, the Elvis star revealed however impressed helium is with his beloved friend. “I’ve known her [Selena] for truthful galore years, truthful it is bully to get to stock abstraction with idiosyncratic for a agelong play of time, and I’m conscionable truthful arrogant of her,” helium gushed to ExtraTV on Thursday. “Her documentary [Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me] truly moved maine arsenic well, getting to spot that… I thought that was truthful brave.”

By the extremity of the interview, Austin noted that helium felt “honored to beryllium successful her company” portion connected the acceptable of the Steven Klein photoshoot. During his interrogation with Vanity Fair, Austin recalled a saccharine infinitesimal that Selena shared with him portion helium was filming Elvis. “When I was filming Elvis, Selena recovered this photograph of the 2 of america erstwhile I did a guest-star happening connected her show Wizards of Waverly Place. And she sends it to me, conscionable going, ‘Wow, retrieve this?’ It feels similar different life,” helium told the outlet. “When you’re a kid actor, you spot truthful galore radical travel successful from Texas oregon something, and astatine a definite constituent they whitethorn discontinue oregon spell back. We’re conscionable truthful fortunate to person careers successful this manufacture for this magnitude of time.”

Aside from his adorable moments with the “Same Old Love” hitmaker, the blonde hunk besides chatted astir his continued success following Elvis. Not lone is Austin gladsome his success took time, helium besides is gladsome helium is older to admit it. “I mean, I had times wherever I conscionable thought, Oh, possibly it’ll ne'er hap oregon I’ll ne'er get those opportunities. But now, successful retrospect, I tin look backmost and go, if I had immoderate movie that deed truly large erstwhile I was younger, I wouldn’t person had to support going backmost to the drafting committee and saying, ‘How bash you get amended astatine this?'”, helium said.

Austin Butler revealed helium is ‘proud’ of his friend, Selena Gomez. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock / Scott Kirkland/Shutterstock)

In addition, the Golden Globe winner admitted that portraying Elvis Presley in the 2022 biopic taught him much astir moving successful Hollywood and the imaginable emptiness that tin travel with success. “I deliberation it’s decidedly made maine see who I inquire for proposal and who I support adjacent to me. Playing Elvis besides conscionable made maine deliberation astir the information that you tin person seemingly everything and yet inactive consciousness empty,” Austin shared. “You tin person each your dreams travel existent and inactive beryllium searching for thing deeper and consciousness precise alone. You acquisition a ton of nationalist love, past you’re backmost successful a soundless room.”

The Carrie Diaries alum has had a emergence successful his occurrence aft starring successful Baz Luhrmann‘s movie past year. Not lone did Austin gain a Golden Globe Award for his enactment connected the project, but he’s earned an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor successful a Leading Role! Upon receiving the prestigious nomination, the 31-year-old told The Hollywood Reporter that his top accomplishment was impressing the late Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley. “Those moments erstwhile Lisa Marie and Priscilla got to see the film and past I archetypal saw them after… thing I would bash would ever apical that,” helium said successful the statement. “And particularly with Lisa Marie not being present with us. I conscionable privation she was present to observe contiguous with us.”

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