Austin Butler refers to ex Vanessa Hudgens as his unnamed ‘friend’

Who needs ex-girlfriends when you can have friends like Vanessa Hudgens? Austin Butler — who dated Hudgens for nearly nine years — repeatedly referred to the actress as an unnamed “friend” while discussing how he landed the role of Elvis Presley in the 2022 titular biopic. “The month before I heard that [director] Baz [Luhrmann] was making the [“Elvis”] movie, I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend,” the Golden Globe winner, 31, explained during this year’s Hollywood Reporter’s Actor’s Roundtable. “And there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio, and I was singing along, and… Read Full Article