Austin Butler feared he was dying after being temporarily blinded by a migraine

Austin Butler feared he was "dying" when he went temporarily blind.

The 34-year-old actor was on his way to film 2023's The Bikeriders when he was jolted awake with a terrible migraine as his flight landed and realised he had lost his vision.

He told the new issue of Men's Health magazine: “It felt like the life was being sucked from my body.

“I suddenly felt a euphoric sensation, and I actually genuinely thought I was dying."

The Elvis star's sight slowly returned to normal and he went on to spend the entire day working on set, writing off the incident as a side effect of sleep deprivation.

Austin was convinced to put in the best performance, he had to be "tortured", and suffered several health issues as a result, including a pain in his foot for months after promoting Dune: Part Two and appendicitis-like pain that hospitalised him for a week after filming Elvis.

He said: “For a long time, I felt that it [acting] had to be a tortured process and I would come out the other side broken."