Priscilla Presley bought emotional after watching the biographical movie Priscilla, based mostly on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me that she cowrote with Sandra Harmon.
Presley, 78, was within the viewers through the film’s premiere displaying on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant premiere on Monday, September 4. Though not initially a part of the movie competition’s press convention to debate the drama, she jumped in from the viewers to reply a query about what it was prefer to see her memoir tailored right into a film.
“It’s very troublesome to sit down and watch a movie about you, about your life, about your love,” she stated with tears in her eyes. After pausing to gather herself, she continued: “[Director] Sofia [Coppola] did a tremendous job. She did her homework, we spoke a few instances and I actually put every part out for her that I might.”
Priscilla, who was married to Elvis Presley from 1967 till 1973, additionally emphasised that Elvis didn’t reap the benefits of her youth once they met. (She was 14 on the time and the late musician was 10 years her senior.)
“It was very troublesome for my dad and mom to know that Elvis can be so excited about me and why, and I actually do suppose [it was] as a result of I used to be extra of a listener,” she stated on the press convention. “Elvis would pour his coronary heart out to me in each means in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the lack of his mom — which he by no means, ever bought over. And I used to be the one who actually, actually sat there to hear and to consolation him. That was actually our connection.”
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She continued: “Regardless that I used to be 14, I used to be really somewhat bit older in life — not in numbers. That was the attraction. Individuals suppose, ‘Oh, it was intercourse.’ No, it wasn’t. I by no means had intercourse with him. He was very form, very mushy, very loving, however he additionally revered the actual fact I used to be solely 14 years previous.”
Earlier within the press convention, Coppola, 52, additionally weighed in on how younger Priscilla was when she met Elvis, who died at age 42 in 1977 as a result of cardiac arrest.
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“I can return to being that age and keep in mind having a crush on an older man and a rock star,” the filmmaker stated. “I simply imagined myself in her viewpoint.”
Priscilla, which stars Cailee Spaeny within the titular position and Jacob Elordi as the enduring musician, marks the second time in lower than two years that Elvis’ life has been portrayed on display. Austin Butler performed Elvis within the 2022 Baz Luhrmann biopic of the identical title, which Priscilla additionally authorized of.
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“It’s a true story advised brilliantly and creatively that solely Baz, in his distinctive inventive means, might have delivered,” she wrote through Fb in April 2022, including that Butler, 32, was “excellent” within the position.
She continued: “Midway by means of the movie [Elvis’ friend] Jerry [Schilling] and I checked out one another and stated WOW!!! Bravo to him … he knew he had large sneakers to fill. He was extraordinarily nervous taking part in this half. I can solely think about.”
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Priscilla and Elvis’ solely baby collectively, daughter Lisa Marie Presley, additionally sang Butler’s praises previous to her demise at age 54 in January.
“I’m so overwhelmed by this movie and the impact that it’s had and what Baz has executed, what Austin has executed,” she advised the gang at a Golden Globes pre-party simply days earlier than dying of cardiac arrest. “I’m so proud. And I do know that my father would even be very proud.”
Priscilla, who additionally shares son Navarone Garibaldi with ex Marco Garibaldi, shared an announcement reacting to the loss on the time.
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Coppola and Jacob Elordi attend a purple carpet for the film “Priscilla” on the eightieth Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant on September 04, 2023 in Venice, Italy. Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I have to share the devastating information that my stunning daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” the assertion learn. “She was essentially the most passionate, robust and loving girl I’ve ever recognized. We ask for privateness as we attempt to take care of this profound loss.”
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Months after Lisa’s demise, her daughter, Riley Keough, and Priscilla reached a settlement over Lisa’s property in Could. Regardless of hypothesis of unhealthy blood between Priscilla and her granddaughter amid the authorized proceedings, Priscilla has shut down the rumors.
“Riley is now the executor [of the estate], which must be proper, clearly, being her daughter,” Priscilla advised The Hollywood Reporter in August. “Riley and I are on good phrases. We had been by no means not on good phrases.”
Keough, 34, additionally addressed the state of affairs throughout an interview with Self-importance Honest for his or her September cowl difficulty.
“When my mother handed, there was a number of chaos in each side of our lives. Every thing felt just like the carpet had been ripped out and the ground had melted from below us,” she defined. “Everybody was in a little bit of a panic to know how we transfer ahead, and it simply took a minute to know the small print of the state of affairs, as a result of it’s sophisticated.”
The Daisy Jones & the Six star added: “We’re a household, however there’s additionally an enormous enterprise aspect of our household. So, I feel that there was readability that wanted available.”
