“I re-read Priscilla’s book and really enjoyed entering her world. I felt like he was entrenched,” Sofia Coppola said
It’s not easy to follow in the footsteps of a famous parent, it’s even harder to be taken seriously when you choose the same career path, especially if that person is an Oscar-winning director.
But, despite the adversities, Sofia Coppola – daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola – managed to achieve the impossible and in doing so, this intelligent, talented and highly regarded female director won an Oscar to her credit.
Twenty years after she gained international acclaim with her third film, the award-winning “Lost In Translation,” Coppola, 52, returns with “Priscilla,” a biographical version of Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis And Me.”
She revealed that working in Memphis, a set designed to capture Tennessee’s capital during the 1960s, brought back images of time spent with her father during his prime in the 1960s. Hollywood. A period that included the tumultuous filming of the 1979 war epic Apocalypse Now.
“I loved going to the set, it was fun visiting all the departments,” she told AnOther. “When I was a little girl in ‘Apocalypse Now,’ the costume designer made clothes for my teddy bear. My first memories of this time with my father were like being in a circus or something. I learned so much from him. He always talked to me about cinema because he is still so excited about it. It is the most interesting medium for him. I keep in mind what he says, but I do it in my own way. You don’t understand what you’re getting, but when I’m on set it’s familiar, because I spent so much time there as a kid,” said Sofia Coppola.
Her new film, which chronicles the life of Elvis Presley and his tumultuous relationship with teenage Priscilla, was approached with the same exuberance displayed by her father — whose five Oscars include best adapted screenplay for “The Godfather” and best movie for “The Godfather Part II.”
She said: “I re-read Priscilla’s book and really enjoyed entering her world. I felt he was entrenched.” She admits she was also impressed by Priscilla’s decision to put her lifestyle on the line by leaving Elvis in 1972, at a time when he was the self-proclaimed “king of rock’n’roll”, and strike out on her own.
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