Filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi had its world premiere at the ongoing Venice Film Festival 2023. The actors, who attended the event, were granted a SAG-AFTRA waiver to promote the movie amid the Hollywood strike of actors and writers. In attendance was Priscilla Presley who was emotional at the screening.
As per Variety, the movie received a 7-minute standing ovation at the event. While Austin Bulter’s Elvis saw the journey of the musician, this movie will turn the story to Priscilla and her marriage to the music sensation. The first teaser gives a glimpse of Elvis and Priscilla meeting each other, an exploration of their relationship, their marriage, and more about the love story.
A visibly shaken Priscilla Presley wiped away tears during the 7-minute #Venezia80 standing ovation for Sofia Coppola’s #Priscilla. pic.twitter.com/tv1eJZQMFm
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Sofia Coppola gives an emotional Priscilla Presley a hug following the world premiere of Priscilla in Venice. pic.twitter.com/xquqgNKm4Y
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At the press conference on Monday, Priscilla Presley said, “It’s very difficult to sit and watch a film about you, about your life, about your love. Sofia did an amazing job. She did her homework, we spoke a couple of times, and I really put everything out for her that I could.”
“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why,” she continued. “And I really do think because I was more of a listener. Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother — which he never, ever got over. And I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection. Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life — not in numbers. That was the attraction. People think, ‘Oh, it was sex.’ No, it wasn’t. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving, but he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. We were more in line in thought, and that was our relationship.”
In addition to writing and directing the film, Coppola also produces the project alongside Youree Henley, Lorenzo Mieli of The Apartment, a Fremantle Company, and American Zoetrope. The Apartment, a Fremantle Company and Sony’s Stage 6 Films will finance the film.
The movie is based on Priscilla Presley’s own autobiography, “Elvis and Me”. It will open in theatres on October 27, 2023.
ALSO READ: Priscilla Teaser: Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi star as Priscilla and Elvis Presley as the first glimpse explores their relationship
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