Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’sElvisbiopicon the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of time before Austin Butler is everywhere—at the movies, on our TVs, and, probably, all over the gossip blogs (he’s currently dating second-gen celebrity Kaia Gerber, a spotlight-friendly relationship, for sure). The paparazzi are already taking notice. Here are shots of Austin out and about in Los Angeles yesterday.
The casting directors are busy with Austin, too. On the heels of learning that Florence Pughis up for a major roleinDune 2—still hoping they call this movieDune Part Deunx—the latest word is that Austin Butler is in talks for the role of Feyd-Rautha, the nephew and heir of Baron Harkonnen, the corpulent slug-man played by Stellan Skarsgard in the first movie. If you’re an early-to-it Austin Butler stan worried he’ll be saddled with a similar slug-look, don’t be. This is the role Sting played in the David Lynch version, and helooked like himself, barring the haircut. You know, starting with Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Timothee Chalamet, and Zendaya, and continuing with maybe Florence Pugh and Austin Butler,Duneis an extremely hot franchise. Why don’t we talk about it as such? Is it because Stellan Skarsgard’s body horror is SO extreme it cancels out everything else? Or because Oscar Isaac’s salt-and-pepperspace daddylook took up all air in the room?
