Baz Luhrmann had a good reason to oust Harry Styles from 'Elvis'

While looking for the ideal actor to play Elvis Presley in his biopic, Baz Luhrmann very seriously thought of Harry Styles.

And if his choice finally fell on Austin Butler, it is absolutely not because the pop star would have failed at the time of auditioning.

"I don't audition.

I do very rich workshops.

I will only mention Harry because he himself said so recently.

Harry is a really talented actor.

I would work well on something with him…”, confided the scenario writer during a passage in the emission of Nova FM

.

In reality, the problem was elsewhere.

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“The real problem with Harry is that he is Harry Styles.

He is already an icon, continued Baz Luhrmann.

I think Harry and I got to a point where he just really wanted to put on the costume and explore.

He has such a great spirit and I have nothing but good things to say about Harry Styles.

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And for the director of

, it was clear that Austin Butler was made for this role.

“The thing about Austin, and he'll tell you this himself, is that I didn't choose him.

It's like he was drawn in, like the role appealed to him, because he was almost born to play it," he concluded.

Come on, only a few more days to wait to see

, which arrives in theaters on June 22.

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