To borrow a lyric from her famous husband’s hit song, Priscilla Presley was all shook up at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Priscilla.” The subject of Sofia Coppola’s drama wiped away t…
’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.earlier in the day, where she emotionally answered a question about what it was like falling for Elvis at the age of 14 years old.
“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why,” she continued. “And I really do think 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. That was really our connection.
The movie debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival and marks a reunion between Coppola and A24 after their work together on 2013’s “The Bling Ring.” Although Coppola is more of a fixture at Cannes , she’s also no stranger to the Lido as her father-daughter drama “Somewhere” was one of the most acclaimed premieres at the 2010 festival. It won the festival’s best picture prize, the Golden Lion.
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