Elvis Baz Luhrmann opens up on feeling connected to Elvis: ‘I was meant to become his friend’
NY Post
Baz Luhrmann remembers exactly where he was on August 16, 1977 — the day the King of Rock and Roll left the building.
“This kid gets on a bus and hears Elvis Presley died,” Luhrmann, 63, told The Post of his 14-year-old self back in Australia.
Rattled by the tragic news, the teenager then had a spooky premonition.
“I went, ‘Oh, that’s not right. I was meant to meet him and become his friend.’ Weird, huh?”
Forty eight years later, the “Moulin Rouge” and “Great Gatsby” director has, in a way, turned into Presley’s most loyal companion.
Luhrmann has devoted much of the past decade to the iconic musician. In that time, he’s helped shake off the cartoonish, sweaty “fat suit” image that’s shackled Elvis’ cultural memory and dwarfed his stratospheric talent, while introducing the genius singer to younger generations.
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