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Variety | August 11, 2025



*Warning: Spoilers for ‘Glass Onion’ at the 10-minute mark*

In their Actors on Actors conversation Austin Butler and Janelle Monáe talk about what it takes to perform music as opposed to acting. Butler explains how he prepared three years for the role of Elvis Presley, while Monáe appreciates how her role in ‘Glass Onion’ was outside her normal range.

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  7. @Daniela-eh8xj

    August 11, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    🎉jannelle and austin need. To do a movie together. /. I want to go Disney land 🎉with you 🎉. .. so jealous. Jannelle raised in. Kansas .. jannelle 🎉take me to Disney land. Let s go🎉. Sweet they are .. then. We know .. things gone separate ways; austin shoot. Caught stealing with Zoe Kravitz

  8. @CHRISTINEDUCK-u8j

    August 11, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    I CONSIDER MYSELF THE VESSEL FOR DIVINE AND ALL THAT I AM IS OF USE FOR DIVINITY TO USE AND IM MULTIDIMENSIONAL….THERE ARE INCARNATIONS THAT MY ATTACKERS AND THOSE THAT GET THE MESSAGES….AND LIFETIMES NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN OR KNOWN ABOUT OR CAN KNOW ABOUT THAT ONLY DIVINE AND I LIVED FOR THE MATYRITY OF MY SOUL….

  9. @CHRISTINEDUCK-u8j

    August 11, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    YES, LETTING GO OF PERFECTION……BUT EGO PERFECTION….NOT TRUE PERFECTION…….I ALWAYS FEEL PERFECTION IS AN ILLUSION….AND A FALSE APEX, THAT ONCE YOU FEEL YIUVE REACHED YOUR PERFECTION, YOU LOSE TGE OBJECT OF THE MASTERY…..ITS CALLED A WHEEL OF FORTUNE…..LEARNING ECER NEW WAYS TO BUILD AND DESTROY SELF, CONSTANTLY PURIFYING AND BEING GENTLE WITH YOURSELF……ONE DAY I WILL SHARE MORE…..MY MISSION IS ABOUT THE DIVINE MESSAGE, NOT SO MUCH ME…..

  10. @CHRISTINEDUCK-u8j

    August 11, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    I WILL SAY THIS….THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS VERY INTERNAL CORE SELF OF ME, PRE COMA AND I WE ARENT CAUGHT UP WITH OTHERS, NOT SELF CONSCIOUS REGARDING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK, JUST CONCERNED WHEN I WAS OUT OF MY VIBE WITH MYSELF AND MY ENERGY……A VERY CORE BEING IN MYSELF THAT NO ONE SEES OR HEARS, OR UNDERSTANDS…..AND I HAVE TO TRANSLATE AND SHARE ASPECTS OF MY CORE BEING ….I DONT SEEK TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN MY TECHNIQUE….JUST TGE TRUTH I TELL…..I HOLD MYSELF TO MY IWN STANDARD….IF I WERE DOING WHAT DIVINE EXPECTS OF ME, WHAT WOULD I EXPECT OF ME??!!

  13. @DolphineAchonga-gn6kn

    August 11, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    I love when they put different but charismatic people together. They pull out interesting details about each other. The conversation flowed. Janelle was her soultry and gracious self and Austin was soaking in the compliments !

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