One of his most anticipated premieres this year’s Venice Film Festival it was definitely her new movie Sofia Coppola, “Priscilla”of course about Elvis’ ex-wife, Priscilla Presley.

Yesterday, therefore, the official premiere of the film took place, with the audience at the Lido breaks into a 7-minute standing ovation for the A24 film. Coppola and Presley attended the premiere along with Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, who star as Priscilla and Elvis – note that SAG-AFTRA allowed them to promote the film amid the strike, as it is an independent production. Presley was visibly moved, and after drying her eyes, she hugged Spaeny.

After Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’, which opens in cinemas in 2022, Elordi is the next actor to take on the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ – but this time in a less flattering way than he by Luhrmann. This Elvis is addicted to sleeping pills, loses his temper and tries to control what his much younger partner wears while cheating on her.

Priscilla Presley also attended the film’s press conference earlier in the day, where she emotionally answered a question about what it was like falling in love with Elvis at the age of 14.

“It is very difficult to sit and watch a movie about you, about your life, about your love,” Presley said. “Sophia did an amazing job. She did her homework, we talked a few times and I really did my best for her. It was very hard for my parents to understand that Elvis was so interested in me». And he continued:Elvis opened his heart 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 comfort him. That was really our connection. Even though I was 14, I was actually a bit older in life – not in numbers. That was the attraction. People think, “Oh, it was sex. No it was not. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very tender, but he also respected the fact that I was only 14 years old. We were more like-minded and that was our relationship».

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