“So, what you’re saying is you made a sacrifice for this film,” host Jimmy Kimmel said, “and it would be nice if people went and saw it.”
As Austin put it, “That’s exactly right.”
Luckily for the Oscar nominee, getting out of his Dune character has been a smoother transition than when he portrayed Elvis in Baz Luhrmann‘s 2022 biopic.
“I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis,” Austin admitted on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Jan. 24. “It was a whole thing.”
In fact, the Golden Globe winner revealed he did more than sound like the late music legend and chose to practice method acting.
“I was just trying to remember who I was,” Austin explained. “I was trying to remember what I liked to do. All I thought about was Elvis for three years.”