"Saturday Night Live's" 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, Lori Anne Howell."I love my mom, some of my favorite memories from growing up was watching 'SNL' every week," and even though he had this "crippling shyness," he would do anything to make her laugh — including an imitation of Gollum from "Lord of the Rings."Being silly with her, he said, is...
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Butler garnered career-defining reviews in “Elvis,” director Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic biopic about the King of Rock ’n’ Roll. And it wasn’t only critics who swooned for Butler; audiences had their hips shaking as they went to theaters in droves, helping “Elvis” rack up $286 million at the global box office at the height of summer, which was the cherry on top of Butler landing that role of a lifetime. Prior to perfecting the requisite southern drawl, Butler was known for younger-skewing fare such as “The Carrie Diaries” (the CW), though he did stand out with a role in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 Oscar pic “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” Now, he’s making the leap to franchise fare in the upcoming “Dune: Part Two,” and he has a starring role in Steven Spielberg’s Apple TV+ WWII series “Masters of the Air.”