FIRST IT WAS A VIRUS. Austin Butler had just finished filming Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis in 2021 when he woke up in severe, appendicitis-like pain. He was hospitalized and spent a week in bed.
Next, it was a bizarre episode of temporary blindness. While flying to shoot The Bikeriders, Jeff Nichols’s saga of a Midwestern biker gang, he jolted awake with a terrible migraine just as the plane was landing. He lost his vision for several minutes and felt a euphoric sensation. He suspected he was dying. He willed his sight to come back, and slowly it did; he headed to set and worked the whole day, writing the incident off as a side effect of sleep deprivation.
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