Previous to starring in Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla, Jacob Elordi’s Elvis Presley data got here solely from Disney’s Lilo & Sew.
Showing on a latest episode of the Tonight Present, by way of Leisure Weekly, Elordi admitted he realized who Elvis Presley was due to 2002’s Lilo & Sew. “Probably the most I knew of Elvis was in Lilo & Sew,” Elordi mentioned. ”Which is quite a bit!”
In Lilo & Sew, Lilo (voiced by Daveigh Chase) is a diehard Elvis Presley fan who imparts her data of the world-famous musician to her adopted pet alien, Sew. The film’s soundtrack additionally comprises a number of Elvis Presley songs, together with Burning Love, Suspicious Minds, Hound Canine, and extra.
“Sofia had despatched me these sides that mentioned Elvis and I kinda simply was like, ‘There’s no probability that that is occurring.’ I watched this clip of him when he got here again from the Military in Germany and skim the strains for like quarter-hour after which shot two takes not pondering it could go anyplace,” Elordi additional mentioned of the function.
What’s Priscilla about?
“When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a celebration, the person who’s already a meteoric rock-and-roll famous person turns into somebody completely sudden in non-public moments: an exhilarating crush, an ally in loneliness, a delicate finest pal,” reads the synopsis. “Via Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen facet of an ideal American delusion in Elvis and Priscilla’s lengthy courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German military base to his dream-world property at Graceland, on this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of affection, fantasy, and fame.”
Based mostly on the 1985 Elvis and Me memoir, Priscilla is written and directed by Coppola. Together with Elordi, the film stars Cailee Spaeny, Raine Monroe Boland, Emily Mitchell, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Luke Humphrey, and Dan Beirne.
Priscilla is getting a restricted theatrical launch on October 27, 2023, earlier than it expands vast on November 3, 2023.
