Elvis’ Yola and Alton Mason on Making Their Film Debuts in the High-Stakes Biopic
Jun 24 2022
With writer-director Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis opening in theaters this weekend around the world, I recently got to speak with Yola and Alton Mason about playing Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Little Richard in the biopic. As you can see in the trailers, Elvis is about the complicated relationship between Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) and Elvis Presley (Austin Butler). The film tells Elvis’ story from Parker’s point of view, and it spans over two decades and includes Presley’s rise to fame against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America.

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