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Radio Times: Release the ELVIS Butt-Numb-A-Thon 4 Hour Cut! Filmed him meeting Nixon.
https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/baz-luhrmann-elvis-4-hours-exclusive-newsupdate/
"I would have liked to lean into some of the other things more – there's so much more," he said. "I mean, there's lots of stuff that I shot like the relationship with the band, I had to pare [that] down – and it's so interesting how the Colonel [Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks] gets rid of them.
"The relationship with his first girlfriend, Dixie, you know. And later on how... once he's caught in a trap, and he's discombobulated and doesn't understand... someone who's got such a hole in his heart like Elvis constantly looking and searching for love and finding it on stage but nowhere else."
Luhrmann also revealed that an iconic moment from Elvis' life that doesn't make it into the film – his famous meeting with President Richard Nixon – was originally included in the film before he had to make some tough decisions."You know, the addiction to barbiturates and all of that, like what happens is he starts doing wackadoo things – like going down to see Nixon. I had it in there for a while but there just comes a point where you can't have everything in, so I just tried to track the spirit of the character."
Radio Times: Release the ELVIS Butt-Numb-A-Thon 4 Hour Cut! Filmed him meeting Nixon. Jun 20, 18:59
Am just disappointed no one thought of naming the movie Yellvis {nm} Jun 20, 19:45