Austin Butler, from a Disney boy clone to the most faithful clone of Elvis

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When Michael Keaton was Michael Keaton and didn't feel the need to be anyone other than Michael Keaton, he made movies where he was: Michael Keaton.

In one of them, he was seen many times.

In

Harold Ramis imagined the possibility of cloning as a remedy against the daily lack of time.

And Michael Keaton, he was the lead, he doubled over and over again.

The problem, and that's where the joke was, was that every time he cloned himself from a clone he became a little more idiotic.

And then, yes, it was completely impossible to distinguish the authentic from the copy, the original from the cloned.

Austin Butler is not Michael Keaton, but he deserves to be.

He was chosen, rather than more obvious options such as

to give life to probably the most imitated character, therefore the most cloned, in the galaxy.

He is, in effect, Elvis in

, the disproportionate film by

that is being released now and that returns us to the king of rock as if it were Michael Keaton himself.

His recent appearance at the Cannes Film Festival crowned him, Butler not Keaton.

He does it so well, he moves so according to the pattern that the common imaginary has forged from the myth, that for a moment it seems completely impossible to distinguish the clone from the clone of himself that ended up being the pop icon of Memphis. .

who would say the most idiotic copy of, again, Keaton.

The chronicles tell that Priscila, the widow, could not hold back her tears at the Grand Theater Lumière de la Croissete.

They also say that she saw

- who in the movie plays the villain in the skin of the famous manager known as The Colonel - under an armchair in search of glory usurped by a newcomer.

But that is another matter.

Austin Butler in 'Elvis'. WORLD

"I just wasn't ready for this.

Austin's every breath, every movement…was her own spirit.

If my husband were here today, he would look him in the eye and say,

” the woman wrote somewhere.

Crying for crying, Butler himself, also cried.

"I've lived with him for three years, so the feeling of doing him justice in front of Priscilla, Lisa-Marie, Riley and his whole family couldn't make me happier."

If you look closely, Butler's is a clone's story of independence and empowerment.

Until now, this 30-year-old man with carnally perfect features could proudly boast of being completely indistinguishable from anyone with a past that also referred to the

(where he started in the shadow of Miley Cyrus);

than to the magazines that shine (his long courtship with

wore more covers than shame);

than expensive advertising (his watch also dazzles).

Of course, if asked, he would say that he wanted to be a feten actor and, probably on someone's advice, he would even say that he wanted to be Leonardo DiCaprio.

For now, he has copied his fondness for much younger brides and now takes photos with

model, daughter of model

and born a decade after him.

That is to say,

And suddenly, everything changed.

First it was

who appointed him to accompany him on Broadway in

Eugene O'Neill's

Then Tarantino gave him a couple of lines ("I'm the devil and I do what the devil would do") in

.

And finally, Luhrmann, moved by the casting test in which Butler remembered that he and Elvis were the same age (23) when they lost their respective mothers, did the rest.

And so, the clone managed to be much more than a clone (already announced in the next installment of

) thanks to being a clone of the most cloned character.

Keaton, say something.

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