We already knew that Austin Butler, the actor who has eternally stuck with Elvis Presley’s accent to a hilarious point, was about to accompany Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, but we did not know the specific reasons. However, now the actor has given us his version of events, where he was forced to choose between two projects. AND He chose, of course, the one that didn’t put him on a plane for days and days.
The gun stop
In an interview on Happy Sad Confused, the podcast that always brings out the famous people that others can’t even smell, the actor, who ended up getting on a plane anyway for the series ‘The Lords of the Air’, on Apple TV+, has declared that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ got in the middle of the filming of ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’. And between Tom Cruise and Quentin Tarantino, it was apparently easy.
. Butler played Charles Manson in the director’s epic, and he did well: in the end, the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ team decided he was too young for the role of Rooster and gave him the side. One of those happy little coincidences in Hollywood: in the end, it would be Miles Teller who took up his mantle.
As a curiosity, Tarantino ended up loving the sequel to the 80s film, as commented on ReelBlend: . Austin Butler would have won choosing either of the two. So any.
