{"id":4086,"date":"2023-07-22T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:50:22","slug":"7-actors-who-played-elvis-before-austin-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/?p=4086","title":{"rendered":"7 Actors Who Played Elvis Before Austin Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Austin Butler shimmies his way onto the screen in Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Elvis,&#8221; he&#8217;ll join an exclusive club of actors who have played the &#8220;King of Rock and Roll&#8221; over the past several decades. Elvis Presley&#8217;s life, his meteoric rise to fame in the 1950s, and his long and storied career have inspired dozens of fictional portrayals over the years, from full-fledged biopics to silly comedy cameos. While many of these depictions of Elvis have been for small projects, obscure movies, or long-forgotten made-for-TV movies, others have stuck around in our collective memory.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up some of the most memorable portrayals of Elvis so far. Scroll through the gallery ahead to see how many versions of &#8220;the King&#8221; you recognize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Austin Butler shimmies his way onto the screen in Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Elvis,&#8221; he&#8217;ll join an exclusive club of actors who have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[310,312,311,160],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportandhealthy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}