yeah my tongue is talking to my brain right now saying what are you doing to me you know feeling the tears [Music] hey what's going on buddy for first week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Austin Butler he's a golden Global award-winning actor and
up for an Oscar in this year's best actor category for his performance is Elvis in the acclaimed baslerman directed by opic you can also catch him in the war drama miniseries masters of the air coming soon to Apple Plus as well as the highly anticipated Dune sequel due out later this year Austin Butler welcome to the show I'm so happy to be here with you well that's lovely
to hear how are you around spicy food and what's going through your head as you prepare to take on The Gauntlet well I mean as we were just talking about I uh I'm I'm like a Cholula sort of sriracha Guy usually but as you said after today you know all bets are off who knows [Music] thank you foreign maple [Music] hmm that's lovely this is how all the interviews start
though I always see them oh that's really lovely that's not bad it's just a very mild Spike [Music] so for more casual observers of Elvis I think it's surprising to learn how robust his film career actually was with more than 30 titles to his name as an actor what do you see in Elvis's filmography um well it's interesting because the films that he did before he went to the Army I
mean especially the last one king creone was directed by Michael Curtis who directed Casablanca when you see Elvis's performance in that I think it shows so much promise and then he got back from two years away he wanted to come back and be a serious actor and not sing in all his films but then they didn't make money and so people around him the colonel and and
other people say you know audiences don't want to see a movie where you don't sing and if you want to have a career you gotta you gotta do this and um and it breaks my heart because it wasn't really I think what he wanted to do but then he ends up getting caught in that that Whirlwind and and sort of the promise that one day I'll get to that point you know
so it makes me sad that Elvis never got that chance to really train to the point that he could excel in the way that I know that he wanted to there's this book called being Elvis alone in life where they tell the story about um and that was his deep regret was that he never made a classic film and he really he really believed at that point
that he would be forgotten after he died which is just just so sad and mind-blowing to me insane because he felt like music would come and go but that a film would last forever in some way um and I wish he was here today to see all the people around the world who just adore him so much [Music] shaquanda's Banshee rash all right [Music] this Ranch is always a nice thing to dip
a hot wing right right and then here they are just uh combining sort yeah there we go there we go there we go yeah you start me slow make me feel confident and then and then Sucker Punch me at the end I'm sure and then I read that Tom Hanks gifted to do a chrome typewriter and the two of you began an immediate pen pal relationship in character is Elvis in
the kernel how did that serve as an effective character development exercise for you it was a way that I never even thought of rehearsing before um I'd heard the sort of apocryphal thing that Tom gives typewriters away and when he when he got to Australia this chrome typewriter shows up at my door and we were staying in the same apartment complex and he was he was a
couple floors uh above me and and it was and he he wrote one letter from Tom Hanks and then another from Carlton Parker and uh and so in that one you you'd say you know my boy would I I watched your new film and this is what I think of this and when you're typing it and especially on a typewriter where you can't edit as much you really have to think about is
this what that person believes and so then I would end up saying you know I just got back from Hawaii and Priscilla and I did this and suddenly now it was expanding the memories that I was now having as Elvis and uh and then allowed me to to put it down on paper in that way and um it was a really cool way of rehearsing [Music] that's really nice how far did you get
in that Wing you know I kind of oh you devoured them I know you know it was kind of an accident you know sometimes it falls off the phone yeah I'm not trying to push the pace or anything Austin no I saw Brolin was throwing them away and something keeping his place oh yeah you know what there's a garbage can over there there's a little I don't need
we'll leave them here yeah yeah little hoop action graveyard yeah in front of us so it's impressive to learn that your acting coach Larry Moss has worked with everyone from you to Helen Hunt Leonardo Dicaprio and Jim Carrey when you're watching films can you tell how an actor is trained or is the whole point that you can't really see any technique these are such good questions
um I um one thing that I love is when it feels like close-up Magic like Sam Rockwell is a good example he's so amazing with physical life it's because he came from Eisner training for me what I also find is that with most actors and most of the great actors that I've worked with they're pulling from so many things so it's not like there's just one technique or something
it's you kind of just fine right it's not like oh I'm an Adler person or I'm a Meisner person or I'm a stanislavski person or whatever exactly what about UDA Hagen the UDA Hagen method ever do anything for you you know that's not a name that gets name checked as much as Meisner and stainless I love that you mentioned that yeah lougan was was
um certain acting teachers it's almost like they're talking down to their students but UDA was never she never seemed to be that way she was she was like a working actor who had been trying things for a long time trying to figure things out pulled from many different um Styles and teaching techniques and that sort of thing and brought together
different exercises and she's amazing I love that you bring her most people don't that's that's really thank you well you know what I have plenty of time to knock this thing off the tracks are you ready yeah are you ready to move on here to Sauce number four the Los Calientes [Music] that's tasty so to kind of piggyback on the conversation we were just having I know
that your acting Journey began with you and your mom taking the long trips from Orange County to Los Angeles that you can take acting classes thinking back on that time is there an acting exercise that you found to be most useful maybe something that you learned back then and still used to this day and then can you give us another one that stands out in
your mind for just being ridiculous yeah um as far as what was very useful was um I did this class it was a class where you sit sort of sort of miznering Base where you come to class they give you a scene that's a couple pages long you read it once and then you put it under your chair and then you get up in front of the class and you have a partner who has the same scene then you
sit down and they've got two cameras on you so there's a there's a close-up on each each of you the cameras on a close-up so it can tell when you're lying and the teachers there watching the Monitor and you'd say what are they feeling the other person happy sad fear anger love and then and then you go okay love um so how do you respond to that because
sometimes they'd be angry and and there would be a line that you wouldn't expect to be an angry lion but that person had something go on in that day that you know they got cut off in traffic or something they brought that into class and so you got to respond to that and not just come up with the idea that you're having um so that taught me a lot about how
there's so many different ways that a scene can be played there's really unexpected things that can happen and really listen um but the ridiculous things I mean I were like pretend you're a chicken and you're like clucking around the room and and that sort of thing you know a lot of a lot of them is ridiculous I heard a great story about uh Brando it was in an
acting class and they I hope that this story is true that that they said to the whole class pretend you're chickens and there's a nuclear bomb that's about to hit and all all the other chickens in the class and they're running around freaking out and Brandon was just sitting there just pecking at the ground and the teacher goes what are you doing what are you
what are you doing I said that there's a bomb about Dan he goes I'm a chicken I don't know what a bomb is so yeah I like that one well speaking of nuclear chicken are you ready to move on here to the halfway point I always liked the compilation of just people's reaction to everyone okay all right yeah I'm feeling that a little bit what does it say pizza chocolate
Curry yeah it's kind of guys does that mean that these are the notes in it or is this Bloody Mary is does that mean you can put this in a Bloody Mary yeah that means let it rip on a bloody mary but it's like got a kind of a spicy curry Vibe this one I feel like yeah that's I actually really like that there we go there we go nice mom is it true that Quentin Tarantino will
oftentimes request another take even if he has everything that he needs just because making movies kicks ass yeah there's two things I can say I I I don't want to speak out of school but um one thing it's really awesome when you're on set the first time that I heard this it was uh it was just so cool because I mean I've talked a lot about how much Clinton
meant to me and it was just always my dream to work with him and but he uh we're on set and he he says okay we got it we're gonna do one more you know why and the entire crew screams because we love making movies and the first time you're there you kind of go oh you you're not in on it and so Brad and Leo everybody's like because we love making movies which is there are
sets that are so sterile there are sets where there's no joy there are sets where people are like just at a job um and you're trying to like create something that you're gonna give to the world you know and and um with Quinn that was so cool because it just changes the atoms in the room and then the next time that we love making movies happens
now you're in on it yeah and then so every new crew member or actor whoever then suddenly they're a part of the tribe at that point saying we love making movies torch bear Mushroom Man oh yeah imagine straight mushroom straight shroom off the top yeah we're gonna start um hallucinating stuff God willing hopefully here we go man so I've heard you describe working on
the Iceman Cometh on Broadway as a true artistic breakthrough moment for you can you break down this quote of yours you are the editor when you're on stage I mean we were doing the Iceman Cometh which is which is quite a dark play Some Nights the audience treated it like it was a comedy the next night they were treated like it was a uh like they would
you could hear a pin drop in the room um and they sort of take on this Collective mind and and so I had an older actor tell me like stand behind the curtain and feel the energy of the audience before you walk out and so I would do that every night I had this little ritual that I would do but I wanted the last things I would do before I went up to the dressing room was sort
of just you hear the chatter of the audience and you feel they're all sort of like unifying in that moment um but then you're on stage and the times that I felt it it was such a amazing feeling to feel the audience in the palm of your hand where they're hanging on every word that you're saying and you know that you could pause and
sometimes I would hold the pause even a little longer and then when you finally speak it's it it has a little bit more power um I saw Denzel do it you know I mean that was one of the greatest things I've ever seen was some of the most brilliant acting I had ever laid eyes on he knew it the audience knew it the other actors know it and you'd expect when somebody's done
something brilliant that they would go okay I'm gonna do that again tomorrow and he wouldn't sometimes he'd never do it again but it was just new life every night it was that that complete presence so it's that thing like there's no one perfect way to do a scene you know um but yeah that's the editing thing thank you all right so these last four this is
where it kicks up a notch I hear Cheers Cheers here we go we should do this all the time this is great man this is you're welcome back anytime um I have a gun oh now this one I think starts off kind of nice but then it has that like tail on it that starts to kick in yeah yeah right a little time sort of like this time release fire that's where you're over my tongue right now yeah and
you know you bite into it you think you're good you're like that's not so bad up front yeah a little Calypso off the off the tip yeah yeah Clips off the tip and then just spice off the rip you know spice up the spice off yeah that's their new tagline yeah super hot Caribbean style yeah I feel that yeah there we go yeah now it starts to run and yeah we're in
it we're in it yeah I feel it I feel like swirling around in my mouth now so unlike Elvis you didn't buy happenstance have three years for the physical transformation that you're taking on in the upcoming Dune project in your months of Navy SEAL like training did you walk away with that with a more creative or exciting way to do cardio yeah basically work me until I would throw up every
time Duffy's he also I found him because he's he's this sort of legend that he was a Navy SEAL and then he started like he betrayed Brad Pitt for Troy and uh and he's just he's a legend and he's just the nicest guy as well but he also doesn't really like count reps he just goes go for it and you're just going and you're like how many of these am I going
to do and once you get to the point where you're dying and you can hardly do another he goes all right do 10 more and that sort of thing and so and and because he's so tough you you don't want to let him die and so so it's it's having a guy like that around just going keep going keep going and you're just pushing your body to the absolute limit of what it can do
he says don't even look in the mirror don't look at the scale like look at how strong you are and that was really cool all right well speaking of speaking of strong how strong we are yeah this next one is the bomb Beyond Insanity oh yeah it is a sauce the reputation that perceives I've heard about this one yeah so this is a real choose this is a
real cheers this is oh that's not the last app the last step is the last step all right that's what they say that's what they said yeah immediately my tongue is talking to my brain right now saying what are you doing to me feeling the tears yeah what are the qualities that you look for in a restaurant when you're thinking about becoming a regular you know I've
heard you talk about how restaurants become like second homes to you when you're in filming locations all over the world foreign this is where it happens exactly um all right being a regular uh whatever all right um I uh I look for a kind staff I look for delicious coffee I look for um grapefruit um something in a close proximity to where I live
so they get hotter than this that's crazy peanut butter banana and bacon sandwiches is overrated or underrated I'm going for the oat milk let's see what this is like I'll join you at the party it gives like a temporary relief and then just oh you want oat milk as well are you yeah I'm going right with you I like that you're really you're coming down um uh what was the question
peanut butter banana and bacon sandwiches overrated or underrated [Music] um I mean it depends who you ask I think that I think they're underrated because they're like thought of as some joke or something like that to certain people but they're really delicious big fan of any peanut butter sandwich in general like peanut butter and jelly is one of my favorite things in the world
it's funny how certain people especially in other countries don't think that you're crazy for liking it they go I don't understand like I had a French person the other day I do not understand this peanut butter and jelly yeah it's like the comfort food for me you know this next one is Taco Vibes only we were going right into the next one if you're
ready if you're ready Austin this is where you start breaking down the defenses right through the armor it's an answer this is Taco Vibes only Taco Vibes are just extreme burn danger today [Music] yeah I'm okay so you grew up in Anaheim California almost midway between Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm which sounds like a childhood's dream fulfilled
pound for pound what's the goat amusement park attraction for you oh wow great question um it's a roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm so you start out faster it's called like extreme or something you shoot and you go up and over and down and then you do loops and different things I I rode that with my mom when when I when it first opened and uh and we got
to the end of the ride and our hair is just like you know you just went through the whole wind tunnel and uh and and we looked at each other and she goes I want to do it again I was like yeah and so we went and that point I mean you go to the end of the line we didn't have fast passes or anything and you make your way through the line again we wrote it again
I think we did it like three or four times in a row so we really liked that one yeah all right Austin all right here we go my man [Music] well I'm not gonna all right is that enough that's enough of a dab right there all right Cheers Cheers what a ride what a ride this has been really fun yeah going in I'm going on and with that fight Austin Butler we
have climbed to the top of Scoville Mountain the top of spice Mountain we've reached it and I know it's been a trying and challenging Journey which is why we want to return it to a happy place you know I know matter I know no matter how crazy your life gets there's always something there for you always something you can count on and that is the iconic
peanut butter and jelly sandwich so what we have here is a full Nissan Plus no way okay are you serious you playing this at a time and I'm just curious how you make your peanut butter and jelly sandwich you know we have some different options here I'm curious about your build the order of elements I'll I'll talk you through your ratio yeah take this one away off yeah is this is
so I make one for you at the same time you know you know we're marrying each other the whole time so I'm gonna I'll do the same okay here we go this is this is great I'm not I'm not gonna I'm gonna wait for just one second so I don't drip on yourself all right um so I'll talk you through some things I'm a smooth peanut butter guy there we go so that's what I'm gonna start with
some people only appear about one side of the bread but then the jam soaks into the bread certain people like that I prefer when it's contained so you sort of like you bring the peanut butter on both sides and it kind of locks in the jam I I was the only kid in the elementary school who got this letter that allowed me to every every lunch walk home and
eat lunch with my mom and she'd have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich waiting for me and we'd watch some design show like there was this one called Surprise by Design where you would um make uh like brick Pathways in their backyard different things and then and then we would go let's go do that and so we bought bricks and try to make brick pads
on the backyard um and uh so that was I have very fond memories of great Jam because of that um [Music] all right so don't be bashful with the uh peanut butter and I'm gonna have peanut butter and jelly aficionados out there coming at you yeah coming for you yeah but you know what I'll take it this is my technique math is still just burning it's uh it's
amazing all right I haven't done this with a the this really this is animalistic um all right we're gonna this is gonna make us up I'm gonna try oh look at that I've never done that do you like it it's kind of fun actually yeah it's like this is gonna be my new therapy it's like you know after a long day just spreading grape jelly like this it's
really wild it like sends it in a sheet it's amazing how they designed that I feel like Bob Ross well it does look like an artist at work over here I gotta say um yeah just a sniffling Bob Ross making a sandwich for my front Sean [Music] this is getting ridiculous guys all right and we did the white bread like I've been on a more of a wheat bread thing but this is this is old
school right now all right and under these circumstances thank you so much together I feel so safe with you and you gave me a sandwich a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich we'll see and it's really nice to actually wash down with smoke milk how is that is that okay under these circumstances yeah it's one of the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I've
ever had in my life oh it's good no the way that kind of just kills that hot sauce Gauntlet that's perfect so perfect so perfect and look at you Austin Butler taking on the wings of death making us a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to call credits and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let
people know what you have going on in your life what do I have going on in my life right now I'm my mouth is completely numb and um I I've made a new friend that I hope stays in my life for a long time eating wonderful peanut butter and jelly um and um yeah it's been a whirlwind lately so I look forward to yeah you know many more fun times ahead
and and then a vacation yeah we survived it I'm actually gonna dig in on this a little bit yeah me too actually you know that's like that's childhood right there and it's Sneaky like really good against the spice it's actually like like people gotta do this when they come on just ask yeah it has to be part of the recovery yeah you just have a peanut butter and
jelly waiting for people in The Green Room afterwards great the peanut butter really cuts through it this conversation was so wonderful so thank you man hot ones fans exciting news the season 20 hot ones 10 pack is now available if you've ever watched from home and wondered to yourself how hot are the wings really or been one of those people that's like oh they're only taking one
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