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    Cindy Crawford also has an opinion on Austin Butler’s ‘never-ending’ Elvis accent

    By Lauren Sarner,

    9 hours ago

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    It’s “a little less conversation.”

    Supermodel Cindy Crawford, 58, whose daughter Kaia Gerber, 22, is dating Austin Butler, was asked about Butler’s “never-ending” Elvis accent.

    On the July 24 episode of “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen,” Crawford shared, “I just … That’s Austin to me.”

    Butler, 32, starred in the 2022 biopic about Elvis Presley , co-starring Tom Hanks and directed by Baz  Luhrmann.

    Butler won a Golden Globe for the role, and got nominated for an Oscar. He also got approval from Priscilla Presley, 79, and Lisa Marie Presley, shortly before the latter’s death at age 54 in 2023.

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    Austin Butler hasn’t been able to shake off his “Elvis” voice. WireImage

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    Cindy Crawford, whose daughter Kaia Gerber is dating Austin Butler, weighed in. Getty Images for Albie Awards

    But, the most memorable and lingering impact is that Butler walked around with a lingering “Elvis” drawl to his voice.

    “I didn’t know that he was from Anaheim,” Crawford added during the Plead the Fifth segment, referencing Butler growing up in California.

    “He spent so long being Elvis that I think it just stuck,” Crawford said.

    The model added, “I’ve never heard him … like, I didn’t know him pre-Elvis. So that’s just Austin to me.”

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    “That’s just Austin to me,” said Cindy Crawford. FilmMagic
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    “He spent so long being Elvis that I think it just stuck,” said Cindy Crawford. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett C

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    Butler, who previously dated Vanessa Hudgens, has been romantically linked to Gerber, who previously dated Jacob Elordi, since 2021.

    Butler got called out on social media for his “cringe” lingering “Elvis” accent at the 2023 Golden Globes.

    “I don’t think I sound like him still, but I guess I must because I hear it a lot,” Butler said at the time.

    When he hosted “Saturday Night Live,” he joked, “There’s people out there who say that ever since I played Elvis, my voice has changed. That it got deeper, more Elvis-y. But that’s not true. I’ve always sounded like this.”

    In an interview with the Los Angeles Times last year, the actor blamed his “muscular habits” for his low voice.

    “It’s funny to me because I don’t even think about it,” he said at the time. “I guess after three years of doing everything that I could to focus on this one goal of trying to bring life to Elvis in this film, I think that there’s certain muscular habits that must pop up.

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    “If I was trying to sound like Elvis, I would sound very different right now,” he continued. “I think it’s sort of amusing to me how much people want to focus on this one thing.”

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    Cindy Crawford’s daughter is dating Austin Butler. FilmMagic
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    “I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis,” Austin Butler said. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

    During an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in January, the “Bikeriders” actor told the comedian that he went swiftly from Elvis to the Apple TV+ miniseries “Masters of the Air.”

    “I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis … that was the whole thing.”

    Butler’s “Elvis” voice coach, Irene Bartlett, also defended the change in his voice .

    “Because of COVID shutdowns, he was working on it all the time, and it’s difficult to switch off something you’ve spent so much focus time on,” she told ABC Gold Coast .

    “I feel sorry people are saying that, you know, it’s still acting [but] he’s actually taken [the voice] on board,” she said. “I don’t know how long that will last, or if it’s going to be there forever.”

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