Austin Butler had a dialect coach to help him get rid of his ‘Elvis’ accent for ‘Masters of the Air’.

• Austin Butler said he had a dialect coach to help him get rid of his “Elvis” accent.

• The actor worked on an Elvis Presley biopic with the director Baz Luhrmann for three years.

• Butler said he only had a week between finishing “Elvis” and filming “Masters of the Air.”

Austin Butler relied on a dialect coach to help him get rid of his infamous “Elvis” accent after working on the biopic for three years, he said.

Butler was nominated for best actor at last year’s Oscars, and won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for his performance as Elvis Presley in the 2022 blockbuster directed by Baz Luhrmann.

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Butler recalled the difficulty of making the jump from “Elvis” to begin work on Apple TV+’s World War II drama, “Masters of the Air.”

The star said he only had a week between the two projects, and struggled to pull off his memorable role as Elvis.

“I had a dialect coach to help me not sound like Elvis,” Butler said.

“I was just trying to remember who I was. I was trying to remember what I liked to do. For three years all I thought about was Elvis. And then I have that weekend off,” he continued. .

“And then I went to London, and it was Covid at the time, so I was quarantined for 10 days. I thought, ‘OK, for all this energy to learn about World War II,'” Butler added.

While promoting “Elvis” in 2022, Butler continued to speak in Presley’s distinctive Southern accent, which became a social media meme.

“At this point, I ask people, ‘Is this my voice?'” Butler told Entertainment Tonight In June 2022. “It’s one of those things where certain things trigger it. When you live with something for two years, and you don’t do anything else, I think you can’t help it. It becomes the fiber of your being. is.”

Butler later told reporters backstage at the 2023 Golden Globes: “I don’t think I still sound like him, but I think I must hear it because I hear it all the time.”

“I often love it when someone lives in another country for a long time. I had three years where that was my sole focus, so I’m sure there are pieces of it in my DNA and I’ll always be connected to it,” he added. .

In February 2023, Butler said that he would finally “Getting rid of the accent.”

Butler, who is also in the upcoming “Dune: Part Two,” noted on “The Late Show” that the “Masters of the Air” cast was taught how to fly, which helped get him into character.

“Back then, I really believed I could fly a plane. Yes, we had a pilot there who taught us. We had flight simulators,” Butler said.

After making the new series, Butler even joked that he would be confident of flying the plane in real life.

“It might not be safe, but I think I’m confident. Tom Cruise is probably going to be great, I’ll definitely trust him,” he said.

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