Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi on Sept. 4, 2023.Photo:Vittorio Zunino Celotto/GettyCailee SpaenyandJacob Elordidid their Presley homework.As Spaeny, 25, and Elordi, 26, spoke at a New York Film Festival press conference forSofia Coppola’s new moviePriscillaFriday, they said they put their brains together to keep track of the timeline ofElvis Presley’s relationship withPriscilla Presleyas the film weaves in and out between 1959 and 1973.“There is no gap in Cailee’s performance,” Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the movie. “I would go [on set] — and I’m fairly well prepared performer — and I would say, ‘What year is this?’ And she would pull out a script and she had every single thing catalogued to the year. So any in-between, Cailee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks.““We were good study buddies,” Spaeny joked. “We’d be like, ‘This [scene] is looking like ‘65!’ “Elordi added that he and Spaeny “were pretty dorky about the whole thing.“Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.Philippe Le Sourd/A24"I sort of built Elvis and Cailee built Priscilla [as characters], and I think we kind of met in the middle on those gaps to where we we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on screen,” he said.Priscillatracks the famous couple’s relationship from when Elvis and Priscilla, now 78, first met in Germany to Priscilla’s decision to divorce the music icon in the early ’70s. Along the way, the couple had one daughter, the lateLisa Marie Presley.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Spaeny, who previously appeared in 2018’sOn the Basis of Sexand 2021’sHow It Ends, told reporters that Priscilla “was very gracious with her time” when they first met to the discuss the role, which turned into a four-hour conversation.“For her to take that time and really go through the story and relive everything again with me, and I really tried to make sure it didn’t feel like I was trying to [interrogate her] or something,” Spaeny said. “I just tried to sit back and see how much she felt comfortable telling me.“Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in ‘Priscilla’.Sabrina Lantos/A24"But just being in front of her and in her presence was so informative in how I tried to do my own version of her story,” she added. “She’s a woman from a different time, a different generation. She’s American royalty, really. So the way she holds herself now and in [preparing], all the mannerisms and how she speaks and how she goes about life is very important.“Priscillais in theaters Nov. 3.
Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi on Sept. 4, 2023.Photo:Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Cailee SpaenyandJacob Elordidid their Presley homework.As Spaeny, 25, and Elordi, 26, spoke at a New York Film Festival press conference forSofia Coppola’s new moviePriscillaFriday, they said they put their brains together to keep track of the timeline ofElvis Presley’s relationship withPriscilla Presleyas the film weaves in and out between 1959 and 1973.“There is no gap in Cailee’s performance,” Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the movie. “I would go [on set] — and I’m fairly well prepared performer — and I would say, ‘What year is this?’ And she would pull out a script and she had every single thing catalogued to the year. So any in-between, Cailee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks.““We were good study buddies,” Spaeny joked. “We’d be like, ‘This [scene] is looking like ‘65!’ “Elordi added that he and Spaeny “were pretty dorky about the whole thing.“Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.Philippe Le Sourd/A24"I sort of built Elvis and Cailee built Priscilla [as characters], and I think we kind of met in the middle on those gaps to where we we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on screen,” he said.Priscillatracks the famous couple’s relationship from when Elvis and Priscilla, now 78, first met in Germany to Priscilla’s decision to divorce the music icon in the early ’70s. Along the way, the couple had one daughter, the lateLisa Marie Presley.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Spaeny, who previously appeared in 2018’sOn the Basis of Sexand 2021’sHow It Ends, told reporters that Priscilla “was very gracious with her time” when they first met to the discuss the role, which turned into a four-hour conversation.“For her to take that time and really go through the story and relive everything again with me, and I really tried to make sure it didn’t feel like I was trying to [interrogate her] or something,” Spaeny said. “I just tried to sit back and see how much she felt comfortable telling me.“Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in ‘Priscilla’.Sabrina Lantos/A24"But just being in front of her and in her presence was so informative in how I tried to do my own version of her story,” she added. “She’s a woman from a different time, a different generation. She’s American royalty, really. So the way she holds herself now and in [preparing], all the mannerisms and how she speaks and how she goes about life is very important.“Priscillais in theaters Nov. 3.
Cailee SpaenyandJacob Elordidid their Presley homework.
As Spaeny, 25, and Elordi, 26, spoke at a New York Film Festival press conference forSofia Coppola’s new moviePriscillaFriday, they said they put their brains together to keep track of the timeline ofElvis Presley’s relationship withPriscilla Presleyas the film weaves in and out between 1959 and 1973.
“There is no gap in Cailee’s performance,” Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the movie. “I would go [on set] — and I’m fairly well prepared performer — and I would say, ‘What year is this?’ And she would pull out a script and she had every single thing catalogued to the year. So any in-between, Cailee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks.”
“We were good study buddies,” Spaeny joked. “We’d be like, ‘This [scene] is looking like ‘65!’ "
Elordi added that he and Spaeny “were pretty dorky about the whole thing.”
Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.Philippe Le Sourd/A24
Philippe Le Sourd/A24
“I sort of built Elvis and Cailee built Priscilla [as characters], and I think we kind of met in the middle on those gaps to where we we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on screen,” he said.
Priscillatracks the famous couple’s relationship from when Elvis and Priscilla, now 78, first met in Germany to Priscilla’s decision to divorce the music icon in the early ’70s. Along the way, the couple had one daughter, the lateLisa Marie Presley.
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Spaeny, who previously appeared in 2018’sOn the Basis of Sexand 2021’sHow It Ends, told reporters that Priscilla “was very gracious with her time” when they first met to the discuss the role, which turned into a four-hour conversation.
“For her to take that time and really go through the story and relive everything again with me, and I really tried to make sure it didn’t feel like I was trying to [interrogate her] or something,” Spaeny said. “I just tried to sit back and see how much she felt comfortable telling me.”
Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in ‘Priscilla’.Sabrina Lantos/A24
Sabrina Lantos/A24
“But just being in front of her and in her presence was so informative in how I tried to do my own version of her story,” she added. “She’s a woman from a different time, a different generation. She’s American royalty, really. So the way she holds herself now and in [preparing], all the mannerisms and how she speaks and how she goes about life is very important.”
Priscillais in theaters Nov. 3.
source: people.com
