US actor Austin Butler plays the King of Rock'n'Roll in the fever dream of a biopic
US actor Austin Butler plays the King of Rock'n'Roll in the fever dream of a biopic AFP / Julie SEBADELHA

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  • Austin Butler and his sister Ashley Butler attended the Golden Globes 2023 ceremony together
  • The siblings were in the middle of a red carpet interview when Lisa Marie Presley joined them
  • The actor gave a shoutout to the Presleys in his acceptance speech

Lisa Marie Presley showed up at the Golden Globes 2023 ceremony to support Austin Butler, who went home with a big win Tuesday night.

Austin attended the big night with his sister, Ashley. The siblings were in the middle of an interview with Entertainment Tonight's Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier on the red carpet when Presley joined them.

"I am so amazingly proud. I can hardly even express it in words," Ashley said. "I'm happy that you are just as protective over him as I am because I see him as a little 12-year-old boy that I need to protect, too."

At that point, Presley crashed their interview, quipping, "What? Did I photobomb you?"

Lisa Marie then gushed over Butler's performance as her late father Elvis Presley in the Baz Luhrmann-directed biopic "Elvis," describing it as "truly mind-blowing." She also shared how she felt after watching the film.

"I really didn't know what to do with myself after I saw it," Lisa Marie told ET. "I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible and so spot on and just so authentic that, yeah, I can't even describe what it meant."

She added that she attended the star-studded night to show her support for Butler, Luhrmann and the film. Lisa Marie said that she was "so excited" and hoped that Austin would win.

Butler later took home the Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a motion picture – drama for "Elvis."

In his acceptance speech, the actor returned the shoutout to the Presleys, thanking Elvis' wife and daughter for opening their hearts and home to him while he was preparing for the biopic.

"Thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me," he said to Lisa Marie and her mom, Priscilla Presley, who were seated in the audience. "Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever."

The first-time Golden Globe winner also expressed his gratitude to the Presley family for giving him the space to capture the essence of the king of rock and roll in the 2022 biopic while talking to reporters backstage after his win.

"To be in that room full of all those people that I've admired so much, and it just means so much to me," Butler said. "And then in front of the Presleys who have now welcomed me into their family in such a beautiful way — I just feel so endlessly grateful to them that they provided this space for me to somehow try to capture the essence of this man that means so much to them, and that they love so much."

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Austin Butler talked about filming "The Shannara Chronicles" in New Zealand. Pictured: Butler attends the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 30, 2015 in Los Angeles. Getty