Butler, whose portrayal of the late rock icon earned him a best actor Academy Award nomination, was trained by movement coach Polly Bennett.
!) when playing the King of Rock 'n' Roll in “Elvis,” but the actor also moved just like the late rocker. And that took some help., was trained by movement coach Polly Bennett.
“It means excavating where he’s from, where he grew up, what was in his body, what he had for free and therefore what comes to be elevated when he’s on stage,” she told TODAY on the March 10 episode.“With fear and trepidation," she said."You know, you’re fighting everyone’s expectation of what Elvis is and who Elvis is.”Warner Bros. / Alamy
“This is a world where you would be, sort of, married off at 15,” Bennett said. “So, the idea of responding to somebody dancing on stage, who’s moving their legs, and shaking and looking at you and flicking their hair, it does something internal to you. So I had to work with those girls to literally uncorset them.”
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