Cindy Crawford's take on Austin Butler not losing his Elvis Presley accent is that it simply comes natural to him.
The supermodel, who's mother to Butler's girlfriend, actress-singer Kaia Geiber, was a guest alongside actor Colman Domingo on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. During the "Plead the Fifth" segment, Crawford spoke about Butler's "never-ending" Elvis voice.
"I just ... That’s Austin to me," she told Cohen around the 1:45-mark of the video above.
"He spent so long being Elvis that I think it just stuck," she continued, adding, "I’ve never heard him … like, I didn’t know him pre-Elvis. So that’s just Austin to me."
Although Butler starred in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis in 2022, even he's admitted to having a hard time getting rid of the accent, going as far as hiring a dialect coach to help him. Shortly after wrapping the film, Butler began Apple TV drama miniseries Masters of the Air in London, which he spoke about on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in January.
"I was just trying to remember who I was. I was trying to remember what I liked to do, and all I thought about was Elvis for three years, he said. "And then I had that week off, and then I flew to London, and at that time it was COVID, so I was quarantined for 10 days. I thought, 'Alright, just pour all this energy into learning about World War II now. I had a dialect coach just to help me not sound like Elvis."