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18.09.2023 - 21:49 / justjared.com
Sofia Coppola is opening up about her first meeting with Priscilla Presley.
If you’re unaware, the 52-year-old filmmaker directed the upcoming Priscilla movie, which stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi. It just premiered during the Venice Film Festival.
Speaking with People, Sofia revealed what was going through her mind meeting Priscilla.
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Sofia confessed that she “was excited, but I was really nervous [to meet her].”
“She let me come interview her and ask her questions. And she was very, very sweet. But I was nervous — I was like, this is my opportunity to talk to the subject matter, which I’ve never done before,” she continued, recalling that Priscilla was “very kind and let me call her a lot as a follow-up, so when I’d be looking over my notes I could keep calling her.”
Sofia also recalls learning some new things about Priscilla as she adapted the biography, with one being that “she was going to high school and living in Elvis’s house.”
“Just to kind of hear all the details of her life was really fascinating,” Sofia shared. “I remember being like, ‘What were you doing all day when you were just waiting at home and Elvis was away? What were you doing?’ I was really trying to understand what she was doing to fill her days when she wasn’t with him.”
Just recently, Priscilla addressed the age gap between her and Elvis Presley.
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Priscilla Presley is opening up about her and Elvis’ controversial age gap… But is she really telling the truth? Or trying to clean up history??
Priscilla Presley has insisted that she “never had sex” with Elvis when the pair first met when she was 14.The late icon was 24 when he first met his future wife in Germany in 1959, with the pair marrying seven years later in 1967 when she was 21.Speaking at press conference at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of Sofia Coppola’s new biopic, Priscilla which depicts their relationship, Presley said Elvis never took advantage of her, despite their age gap of 10 years when they first met.“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why,” she said, via Variety. “And I really do think [it was] 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.
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Priscilla Presley is addressing the age gap between her and her late husband, Elvis Presley.
1985 memoir “Elvis and Me.”In video obtained by TMZ, Presley admits that her parents had a hard time understanding why Elvis would be interested in her. But she said she was a “listener,” and the megastar would “pour his heart out” to her. “I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him,” she explains.
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Priscilla Presley was all shook up at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Priscilla.” The subject of Sofia Coppola’s drama wiped away tears from her face on Monday night in Italy as the audience on the Lido exploded in a 7-minute standing ovation for the A24 indie film. Coppola and Presley attended the premiere alongside Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, who star as Priscilla and Elvis. The actors were granted a SAG-AFTRA waiver to promote the film amid the strike.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The last time Sofia Coppola made a movie about a teenage royal living in a rococo palace that turned out to be a lavish prison, it was 2006, and the movie, “Marie Antoinette,” was a stylized dream of history — the story of the young queen as naïve and isolated rock star. Coppola’s new movie dramatizes the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, and the parallels with the earlier film are there if you want to see them.