Austin Butler Talks About His Elvis Presley Accent!

Austin Butler is once again being questioned about his Elvis accent. Here's what he had to say about it on The Graham Norton Show. I remember when I talked to you, Christopher Cahn, the Elvis voice was still very present in your voice. And people have talked about that. But I think there's a lot less of it now. I'm glad you say that. I hear it all the time. So do you think, will it eventually go, have you tried to get rid of it? Have you gone to a speech therapist or anything? No. The thing is, what did you sound like before? Yeah. Well, I don't know. People pull clips from when I was 17. So you talk like that? And it's really, I mean, to be honest, I've really, I heard what my publicist told me the other day. You know, people, I try to stay off social media, so my publicist told me, you know, people are talking about your voice and these sorts of things. And it really made me self-conscious for a second, because I thought, am I being phony? Is this not my voice? And then I thought, no, I'd have to think consciously to not talk how I am right now. But my voice sounds different when I talk to my dog or when I talk to my dad or when I'm here right now. You know, we all have different bits of ourselves that we're releasing. But when I was really questioning it, I thought, okay, for one thing, I'm older now. I don't, maybe sometimes I have a Southern twang, but I'm not, I don't think this is Southern. If I tried to sound like Elvis, I would sound very different right now. Don't do it. Yeah, I'm not going to. You have to pay extra for that. But the other thing is, I think I, from all the singing, I probably have destroyed my voice a bit. You know, my vocal cords, it's a lot raspier now. And so I just trained a lot, you know, I trained a lot. And then it turned out that I ended up doing all the singing for that early stuff.