Here's Why Austin Butler's Scene Singing 'I Will Always Love You' Was Cut From 'Elvis'

There’s an Elvis scene you haven’t seen!

In Baz Luhrmann’s film, Austin Butler’s character says the words, “I will always love you.” The director has since described it as the film’s actual death scene – but there’s more to it.

In a recent interview with collaborator and cinematographer Mandy Walker, Baz revealed a scene of Austin singing Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” didn’t make the final cut.

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After Elvis and Priscilla Presley break up in the movie, Elvis drops off their daughter, Lisa Marie, at the airport. They have a heart-to-heart, foreshadowing Elvis’ death.

“The script was pretty long, but I always wanted another moment where Priscilla came back into his life and that they were friends. In a way when he walks on that plane and it takes off, we don’t need to see him die, he’s dead,” he said.

He explained that Dolly Parton had always wanted Elvis to sing the song, “but the Colonel interceded and he never recorded it.”

“Austin sang ‘I Will Always Love You’ in the back of the car. The scene begins with Priscilla saying, ‘It’s a beautiful song,’ and he says, ‘Yeah, Dolly wants me to sing it, but the Colonel…’” However, the moment wouldn’t work for the scene and the film, so it was cut,” he revealed.

“When Austin got out of the car, he looks across at Priscilla and says that line, so that’s where it comes from.”

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