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How Denzel Washington Got Austin Butler His Role in Elvis Biopic
Elvis director Baz Luhrmann reveals that Denzel Washington was instrumental in getting Austin Butler cast in the lead role of Elvis Presley. The actor got his start in the industry when he was just 14 years old, booking a two-season gig on the Nickelodeon series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Butler followed up that series with stints on a pair of family dramas: The CW's Life Unexpected and Freeform's Switched at Birth. More recently he has portrayed the iconic fantasy character Wil Ohmsford in the Terry Brooks adaptation The Shannara Chronicles and the Manson Family member Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.