As one of Hollywood’s hottest leading men, it’s understandable why there’s so much interest in who Austin Butler’s girlfriend is and if he has a girlfriend after his nine-year relationship with Vanessa Hudgens.
Butler—who has starred in movies like Elvis, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Dune: Part Two—opened up about his success in an interview with Vanity Fair in February 2023. “From the very beginning, when I first got on set, it was just a neat thing that I could do as a 12-year-old kid,” he said. “Then once I started going to acting class and realized there’s a craft behind it—that sort of became this addiction for me. Addiction might be a strong word, but obsession with finding honesty, really.”
He continued, “I started looking at a lot of different people’s careers. And Leo, when I was about 15, became that guy, because he’d made that transition. Every film that he chose, you could see the level of passion that he still had for the work. And that’s been a surreal thing, looking back at what my dreams were when I was 15, and then getting to work with the people that he got to work with, getting to be on set with him. There’s a lot of these pinch-me moments in my life and that’s definitely one of them.”
Butler also told The Sydney Morning Herald in March 2023 about how his role as Elvis Presley in 2022’s Elvis taught him about fame. “In a way, [Elvis has] guided me to hopefully deal with this time in my life in the healthiest way I can,” he said. “People have this idea of me that has certain shades of the real thing, but it’s not all me … Each one of us, as human beings, is much more complex than just any one idea.”
