Austin Butler has achieved fairly nicely for himself these days. He’s broadly anticipated to nab his first Oscar nomination for his breakthrough efficiency in Elvis subsequent week, and his subsequent position can be reverse Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in Dune: Half Two. Nonetheless, there’s no getting round the truth that his first brush with the gossip pages was as Vanessa Hudgens’s first boyfriend post-Zac Efron in 2011.

Hudgens and Butler spent 9 years collectively, however broke up in early 2019 close to the start of Elvis manufacturing. In reality, Hudgens might have even been the one who put the thought of taking part in Elvis Presley in Butler’s head within the first place.

The pair appears to be on respectable phrases all issues thought of, however there’s one factor not even Hudgens can recover from: Butler’s new accent. The actor has adopted an inclination towards sustaining Presley’s Tennessee twang offscreen, and Hudgens has lastly damaged her silence on the matter.

Instagram person Ryan Scott posted a screenshot of a Web page Six headline claiming, “Austin Butler’s ‘Elvis’ accent is ‘real,’ may stay ‘endlessly’: voice coach.” Beneath, he wrote, “He went to the Woman Gaga faculty of Oscar marketing campaign performing.” That is far type the primary joke evaluating Butler’s dedication to the Elvis mystique to Gaga’s near-performance artwork run selling Home of Gucci, however apparently, it’s the primary one Hudgens has heard.

“Crying,” she wrote beneath, as identified by Feedback by Celebs.

Butler claims he doesn’t even discover that his voice has modified, however has mentioned quite a few instances that he spent three years immersing himself within the position and a few components of it have caught with him.

For her half, his vocal coach, Irene Butler, is able to defend the affectation. “Due to COVID shutdowns, he was engaged on it on a regular basis and it’s tough to change off one thing you’ve spent a lot focus [and] time on,” she mentioned (in an Australian accent).

Whereas the voice could also be right here to remain, Butler and Hudgens have moved on, romantically talking. She’s been relationship Cole Tucker since 2021, and he’s famously at the moment linked to Kaia Gerber.