{"id":185257,"date":"2023-01-13T04:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/austin-butler-refers-to-ex-vanessa-hudgens-as-his-unnamed-friend\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T04:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:24:12","slug":"austin-butler-refers-to-ex-vanessa-hudgens-as-his-unnamed-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/austin-butler-refers-to-ex-vanessa-hudgens-as-his-unnamed-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Butler refers to ex Vanessa Hudgens as his unnamed ‘friend’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Who needs ex-girlfriends when you can have friends like Vanessa Hudgens?<\/p>\n
Austin Butler \u2014 who dated Hudgens for nearly nine years \u2014 repeatedly referred to the actress as an unnamed \u201cfriend\u201d while discussing how he landed the role of Elvis Presley in the 2022 titular biopic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe month before I heard that [director] Base [Luhrmann] was making the [\u201cElvis\u201d] movie, I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend,\u201d the Golden Globe winner, 31, explained during this year’s Hollywood Reporter’s Actor’s Roundtable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio, and I was singing along, and my friend looked over at me and goes, ‘You’ve gotta play Elvis!’\u201d<\/p>\n