{"id":161257,"date":"2022-12-18T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/saturday-night-live-austin-butler-chokes-up-in-tribute-to-late-mom\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:29:58","slug":"saturday-night-live-austin-butler-chokes-up-in-tribute-to-late-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/saturday-night-live-austin-butler-chokes-up-in-tribute-to-late-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live: Austin Butler Chokes Up in Tribute to Late Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\u201cSaturday Night Live’s\u201d final show of the season started on a sweet note, as host Austin Butler tenderly recalled watching the late night comedy show with his late mother.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI love my mom, some of my favorite memories from growing up was watching ‘SNL’ every week,\u201d and even though he had this \u201ccrippling shyness,\u201d he would do anything to make her laugh \u2014 including an imitation of Gollum from \u201c Lord of the Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tBeing silly with her, he said, is \u201cwhat broke me out of my shell\u201d and inspired his drive to be an actor. Butler, who got his start as a child actor on both Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows, played Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s hit biopic, \u201cElvis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cNow, my mother is no longer with us, but I have been thinking about her a lot this week, just imagining of how proud she would be that her son is now standing on this stage,\u201d Butler said, choking up.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cAny time you see me doing a funny voice or making a funny face, that is for you mom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\tButler also joked that he grew up in Anaheim, California, hence \u201cthe Southern accent\u201d and said that he always sounded like Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI do want to address something. There’s people out there who say that ever since I’ve played Elvis my voice has changed \u2014 that it got deeper, more Elvis-y,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that’s not true, I’ve always sounded like this and I can prove it. Here’s a clip from an interview I did 10 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe show cut to an interview promoting \u201cThe Carrie Diaries\u201d with his voice pitched hith.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWe’ve stopped testing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\tButler also said that despite last year’s holiday show nearly being canceled due to COVID, the show developed a foolproof plan to ensure that doesn’t happen again. <\/p>\n

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\tButler also talked about being \u201cweird\u201d growing up homeschooled with his sister, Ashley, who was in attendance celebrating her birthday.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cA lot of people don’t know that I’ve been acting since I was a kid,\u201d he said, \u201cstudying ‘Raging Bull’ or ‘Taxi Driver.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cPut down the knife, you are scaring, iCarly,\u201d Butler deadpanned.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stars Kenan Thompson, Cecily Strong, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman, Punkie Johnson, Andrew Dismukes and Michael Che and Colin Jost as the hosts of Weekend Update. The cast also includes James Austin Johnson, Sarah Sherman, Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker as featured players. Kent Sublette, Alison Gates and Streeter Seidell serve as the head writers for the show, while Liz Patrick directs. <\/p>\n

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\tEarlier in the night, NBC announced that the Dec. 17 episodes would be Strong’s last. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n