Elvis Star Austin Butler Lost Golden Opportunity To Star in $1.4 Billion Tom Cruise Mega-Classic

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Austin Butler completely surprised fans with his work in Elvis as the actor quite literally became the iconic singer. T

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The movie not only got an Oscar nomination for Best Movie but, Butler also got a nomination for Best Actor.

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To put it mildly, his performance as the singer had been powerful, and he quickly rose to enormous fame throughout the Hollywood business.

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A similar instance took place for Miles Teller. While the actor already was a big actor before his role in Top Gun:

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Maverick, it was not until the movie alongside Tom Cruise that he saw fame beyond compare.

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Even though Cruise was in the film, his performance as "Rooster" completely managed to steal the show in several key scenes.

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Miles Teller and Austin Butler were not the casting director's first choices, despite the fact that they both fit well in their roles as Rooster/Bradshaw and Elvis in Top Gun:

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Maverick and Elvis. Butler had gotten quite far in the Tom Cruise movie audition process before being passed over for the part.

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