Austin Butler discusses his approach to his character Benny's voice and the Chicago accent while at 'The Bikeriders' premiere. Plus, he explains the difference between Benny's accent and Elvis' accent.
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00:00How did you approach the voice and the Chicago accent and all you're doing in this?
00:04Uh, I, you know, I spent some time thinking about it beforehand that I, I wanted to figure
00:12out where Benny fits into the tapestry of the film, you know.
00:16How thick to go with, with the dialogue.
00:19I, I, I knew that with, once I had heard Jodie's audio of the real Kathy, then, then I tried
00:27to find something that felt suited to that.
00:30So I, I would, I, I feel like I went subtle with it, you know, but I worked with a dialect
00:33coach and just to kind of, yeah, do that work.
00:38How does doing a difficulty of doing an accent like this compared to like an Elvis accent?
00:43I don't know, each, each, I think the difference is with when you're playing somebody that
00:48everybody knows, there's the pressure to where, you know, that people can watch, you know,
00:55interviews with that person.
00:56So it puts a different kind of responsibility, I guess, on it.