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Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler had been seen crossing paths outdoors the Vanity Fair Oscar occasion on March 12. The exes, who dated for eight years earlier than their break up originally of 2020, had a short reunion whereas departing the bash. They had been photographed in the identical body, proving simply how shut they acquired to 1 one other, though the context of any dialog they might have had is unclear.
Austin was on the VF occasion together with his now-girlfriend, Kaia Gerber, though she was M.I.A. when he was photographed leaving. Austin and Kaia have been courting for the reason that finish of 2021. Meanwhile, Vanessa just lately acquired engaged to her boyfriend, Cole Tucker. She was solo on Oscars night time, however her engagement ring was glowing on her left hand in pictures from the night.
Earlier within the night time, Vanessa co-hosted ABC’s pink carpet present for the Oscars. Austin was an attendee on the pink carpet, however he averted his ex by doing his ABC interview together with her co-host, Ashley Graham, as an alternative. Kaia didn’t attend the Oscars with Austin, as he introduced his greatest good friend and supervisor as his plus one. Austin was a Best Actor nominee for his function in Elvis, however misplaced the award to Brendan Fraser, who took it house for his efficiency in The Whale.
Austin began filming Elvis in 2019 when he was nonetheless courting Vanessa, and he just lately credited her with inspiring him within the function. “We’d been together for so long an she had this sort of clairvoyant moment, really,” Austin admitted in a current interview. “So I really…I owe her a lot for believing in me.”
The “clairvoyant” second that Austin was referring to occurred earlier than he even knew the Elvis film was being made. “I was going to look at Christmas lights [with Vanessa] and there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio,” he defined throughout a roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter. “I was singing along, and [she] looked over at me and goes, ‘You’ve got to play Elvis,’ and I said, ‘Oh, that’s such a long shot.’ A couple weeks later, I was playing the piano. I never really sang for my friends or anything. [She] was there and I was playing the piano, she said, ‘I’m serious, you gotta figure out how you can get the rights to a script.’ Then my agent called and said, ‘So, Baz Luhrmann is making an Elvis film…’” Along with the Oscar nomination, Austin additionally gained a Golden Globe for his function within the film.