Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley

  • 📰 AP
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 54 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 25%
  • Publisher: 51%

Entertainment Entertainment Headlines News

Sofia Coppola learned a long time ago that in order to have full creative freedom, she'd have to to get creative with budgets and timelines. Though to look at her latest film, “Priscilla,” a continent and decade-spanning portrait of Priscilla Presley's life with Elvis, you wouldn't know that it was shot in 30 days, mainly in Toronto.

Director Sofia Coppola poses for a portrait to promote “Priscilla” on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. Director Sofia Coppola poses for a portrait to promote “Priscilla” on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. This image released by A24 shows Jacob Elordi, from left, Cailee Spaeny, and Sophia Coppola on the set of “Priscilla.” This image released by A24 shows Jacob Elordi as Elvis, right, and Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla, in a scene from “Priscilla.

And after many years of filming on location — among them Versailles, the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Bemelmans and the Chateau Marmont — for “Priscilla,” Coppola had to build sets and “find Graceland in Toronto.” The Graceland living room was even built to scale, though the ceiling was made taller for their Elvis.

“There was something about making this movie where I just felt so in my element,” she said. “It was hard work but I really had so much fun.” Presley’s book, nearly 40 years old at this point, reveals things about Elvis that are, at best, unflattering. Everyone knows they met when she was 14 and he was 24. But his controlling and sometimes volatile behavior, dictating exactly what she looked like, what she was allowed to do and whom she was allowed to spend time with, might still come as a surprise to some. Before the“I didn’t mean it to be brazen,” she said.

Though Coppola’s films may sometimes release quietly, her fans are passionate. Hers are the films they’ll watch over and over in their rooms — rites of passage, as important as any

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 728. in ENTERTAİNMENT

Entertainment Entertainment Latest News, Entertainment Entertainment Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Sofia Coppola’s 'Priscilla' to close Jio MAMI Mumbai Film FestivalJio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival has announced that Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla will be the closing film of this year’s festival, where it will receive its South Asian premiere on November 3 at th…
Source: DEADLINE - 🏆 109. / 63 Read more »