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Speaker 1: This is jam Nason.

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Speaker 2: I went into this film not being a giant or

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Speaker 2: was found I liked Elvis, but I came out of

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Speaker 2: the film obsessed and I've been playing on this physic

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Speaker 2: all weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's the greatest compliment.

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Speaker 2: And I wished I'd been at every one of those shows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 2: I felt I couldn't breathe watching them. I was so overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: When you were filming the concert bits, did it feel

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Speaker 2: like you were giving a show?

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Speaker 1: Ye? Absolutely, yeah, because we we really The way that

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Speaker 1: we approached every one of them was for one bas

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Speaker 1: and I early on decided that when I was on stage,

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Speaker 1: we weren't going to have a moment where I suddenly,

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Speaker 1: you know, acting and then and then we're talking about it.

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Speaker 1: And so it was I would come on stage like

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Speaker 1: in Vegas, come on stage, do the entire concert curtain

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Speaker 1: comes down, I walk off. So every time the audience

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Speaker 1: is getting the experience of a show, and if we

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Speaker 1: would cut for any reason, I would entertain the crowd.

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Speaker 1: As Elvis, you know, it was the same thing as

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Speaker 1: him having to make jokes to keep everybody entertained. And

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Speaker 1: at first that was really nerve wracking, but studying him

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Speaker 1: for so long. It was such a great lesson in

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Speaker 1: how to build a rapport with an audience and how

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Speaker 1: to keep them entertained. And it was great for me

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Speaker 1: because it allowed me to just feel completely immersed in it.

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Speaker 1: Same thing in sixty eight where I walk on in

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Speaker 1: the black leather, where I'd come on there and there

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Speaker 1: was the feeling of doing the entire show and never

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Speaker 1: the feeling of suddenly you're an actor and you know,

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Speaker 1: it just kind of it's kind of this out of

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Speaker 1: body experience.

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Speaker 3: It must be so satisfying being here talking about it,

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Speaker 3: because you know, for you to get this part, you

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Speaker 3: had to work hard to get, you know, to audition

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Speaker 3: for him. There was a lot of people that could

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Speaker 3: have been that they were bucking for the position to

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Speaker 3: play Elvers. So then you get past that hurdle, then

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Speaker 3: the pandemic kicks in and then you've got to see around,

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Speaker 3: you know, did you think this is never going to happen?

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Speaker 1: I sort of had faith that it was always going

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Speaker 1: to happen, though there were moments where bas said, I don't.

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Speaker 1: We may not shoot it for a year. We don't

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Speaker 1: know when we'll be up because those enormous crowd sequences

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Speaker 1: in the midst of COVID it seemed sort of impossible

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Speaker 1: at times. How do you what what we call the beehive,

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Speaker 1: the moment where Elvis goes into the audience and it's

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Speaker 1: kissing all the weak you know, how do you do

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Speaker 1: that in the midst. So yeah, yeah, So there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of these things that were logistic nightmares for the producers,

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Speaker 1: and uh so I commend them for getting this show

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Speaker 1: on the road. It was amazing looking at you.

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Speaker 2: You don't necessarily look like Elvis as you at what point,

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Speaker 2: but did you become Elvis? What was the transformation?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was uh, I mean, we had

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Speaker 1: so many hair and makeup tests and so some of

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Speaker 1: it is the physical things of you know, aging my

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Speaker 1: face at times, and as as you see different periods

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Speaker 1: of his life where I would look in the mirror

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Speaker 1: and suddenly see myself differently. But it was also you know,

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this how in the beginning, I had

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Speaker 1: this unrealistic expectation that's such that if I worked hard enough,

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Speaker 1: I could somehow cantort my face and make it look

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Speaker 1: identical to Elvis. That that you know, it was this

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Speaker 1: bizarre expectation that I had that I felt like that

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Speaker 1: was my responsibility. And then I realized, actually during that

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Speaker 1: six months of COVID, I realized, that's not my job

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Speaker 1: because that's impossible. And I've been hired to do this part.

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Speaker 1: So what can I bring to it. I can bring

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Speaker 1: my soul, I can bring all of my flesh and blood,

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Speaker 1: and I can merge my soul with his as much

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Speaker 1: as possible, and and that's that's all I can do

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, because I can't change

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Speaker 1: my face. So there were there were moments where prosthetics helped,

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Speaker 1: and and hair helped and all those things, but it

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Speaker 1: was it was those moments where I felt my soul

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Speaker 1: click with his that that I felt it from the inside,

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I was like,

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Speaker 1: that's that's my job. That's how I can do.

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Speaker 3: Did you get to delight in any of the Elvis

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Speaker 3: foods like fools.

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Speaker 1: Gold, Yeah, that's a delicious, man is a great Yet.

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Speaker 2: The peanut butter inside.

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Speaker 3: The and the coffee and the bacon fat, there's a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not.

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Speaker 3: It hasn't got a good heart ticket from no, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: but it's you know, it's it's a good thing to eat.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 2: So having become Elvis for this film, it seems a

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Speaker 2: shame that you and having hosted those concerts when in

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Speaker 2: your life, can you use that again?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a shame to never use it again. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had to just I had to relish in it

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Speaker 1: every day because I knew I'd never get to do

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Speaker 1: this again. As well as the fact that there's those

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Speaker 1: out of body experiences where you realize nobody, like in

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Speaker 1: the Black Leathers the first performance I did, well, I

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Speaker 1: look down and I see the leather, I see the stage.

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Speaker 1: It looks identical. I see the audience, they look identical

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Speaker 1: to all the footage I've been studying for a year

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Speaker 1: and a half, And you realize nobody since Elvis has

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Speaker 1: done this, has ever experienced it as closely as he

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Speaker 1: felt it. Also, the pressure I was feeling was very

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Speaker 1: akin to the pressure he was feeling. And so those

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Speaker 1: moments where I'm looking out and it feels like I'm

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Speaker 1: looking out through his eyes. It was this bizarre out

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Speaker 1: of body experience. It's amazing. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, me might fall back on it.

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Speaker 3: Someone might say, you know, like you're got to got

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Speaker 3: to do great things. I'm not saying anything, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you could be the family thing and you might, you know,

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Speaker 3: have to do but Christmas time, it could be a thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a little on the nose, yeah, it could be

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Speaker 1: a thing. But we loved it.

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Speaker 3: We thought you were fantastic and I can only see

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Speaker 3: great things.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, great things you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I haven't been ever to stop thinking about that film,

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Speaker 2: and I can't wait for the soundtrack to come out.

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Speaker 2: But it just has been haunting me in the best

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Speaker 2: possible way.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That's great. I love pokesaler Anie. When that came on,

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Speaker 1: I was, oh, man, that's one of my favorites. You

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Speaker 1: know that sequence. We there was a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: before Bays had had the idea of the Peruvians coming

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Speaker 1: on stage and the idea of security and having to

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Speaker 1: fight uh to to you know, the colonel kind of

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Speaker 1: clamping down on security, said you know, if you would

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Speaker 1: just choose two songs, what would you choose? And so

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, two songs that aren't in the film,

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Speaker 1: and I'd love to get in the film. Or never

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Speaker 1: been to Spain and Poke Saler Annie never been to

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Speaker 1: Spain ended up getting cut. But the way that we

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Speaker 1: did that was I'm singing never been to Spain. The

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Speaker 1: Peruvians come on stage. I kicked him off and then

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Speaker 1: come back in anger because he's they've come up on

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Speaker 1: stage and I sing Poke Salary. But the way that

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Speaker 1: he edits in the film is just and so it

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Speaker 1: had the fire of all the anger. And so it's

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Speaker 1: cool for me to get to see because it was

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Speaker 1: a different context than I had done it in on

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Speaker 1: the day, but it meant that it had like a

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Speaker 1: certain Intelli had.

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Speaker 3: That and you know, I like, I know that Elvis

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Speaker 3: did it, I think, and then Tony Joe White, yes,

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Speaker 3: with that song.

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Speaker 1: But Elvis just put he put hair on it. You

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Speaker 1: have you watched That's the way it is, yes, Elvis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: watched this. It's a long time ago. Yeah, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: It's Elvis at his peak. He looks like an Adonis

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Speaker 1: and he's rehearsing for Vegas and so you get to

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Speaker 1: watch him rehearse and you get to see him joking

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Speaker 1: around backstage. It'll make you fall in love with him.

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Speaker 1: It's a documentary. It's a documentary that's where it is

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Speaker 1: Elvis rehearsing. You were going to love it, and thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, Thank you, Austin