Superman film.Speaking to GQ for a feature interview, the 26-year-old actor was asked if there was a chance to see him in a superhero film in the coming years. “Not particularly, no.
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Jacob Elordi brings Elvis Presley to life in Sofia Coppola‘s new movie Priscilla, but it turns out that he didn’t know much about the King of Rock before he was offered the role.
The 26-year-old Euphoria actor admitted that Elvis wasn’t someone he had ever imagined playing, adding that the experience was “a little bit terrifying” while on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Part of that might stem from the fact that he wasn’t an Elvis fan. In fact, his one frame of reference was what he learned about him in a Disney movie.
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“The most I knew of Elvis was in Lilo & Stitch,” Jacob admitted to Jimmy Fallon. If you forgot, Lilo was a huge fan of Elvis in the animated Disney movie and even dressed her pet Stitch up as the King.
He continued, reflecting on his audition, which he did not expect to nail.
“Sofia had sent me these sides that said Elvis, and I just of just was like, ‘There’s just no chance that this is happening,’” he recalled. “So I watched this clip of him when he came back from the army in Germany. And I read the lines for like 15 minutes and then shot two takes and, you know, not thinking that it would go anywhere.”
Clearly, something resonated!
Priscilla hits theaters on Friday, November 3rd. See him in action in the trailer.
If you missed it, Jacob recently opened up about his co-star, Cailee Spaenys, who plays Priscilla Presley in the movie.
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Superman film.Speaking to GQ for a feature interview, the 26-year-old actor was asked if there was a chance to see him in a superhero film in the coming years. “Not particularly, no.
Jacob Elordi is opening up about why he’s not interested in starring in a superhero film and the reason behind he shot down an audition for Superman: Legacy.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jacob Elordi revealed in a new interview with GQ magazine that he turned down a request to audition for Superman. While the actor did not name the specific superhero movie project, it’s likely he was referring to James Gunn’s 2025 tentpole “Superman: Legacy” as the film went through casting in the spring and summer months. David Corenswet was announced in June as Gunn’s Superman, with Rachel Brosnahan cast as Lois Lane.
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EXCLUSIVE: Elvis Presley was a big fan of peacocks until he banned them from Graceland after they started pecking at his gold Cadillac.
Elvis Presley in Priscilla.The Euphoria actor – who plays the rock and roll icon in Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama about his relationship with ex-wife Priscilla Presley – detailed how bacon became a key part of his diet ahead of filming.“You ate a lot of bacon,” Coppola said to Elordi in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, alongside Cailee Spaeny who plays Priscilla. “Priscilla told us that Elvis liked really burnt bacon.”“I ate a lot of bacon,” Elordi replied. “I averaged around a pound of bacon a day.
People. According to Priscilla, who was married to the “Suspicious Minds” singer from 1967 to 1973, no other relationship ever really came close to what she and the late singer had. “To be honest with you, I never wanted to marry after him.
If you’ve seen the new film Priscilla, you’ve likely noticed there were no Elvis Presley songs in it, despite him being a big part of the story.
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com What’s fact and what’s fiction in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla?” We fact-checked the film against the source material, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me.” The new film, starring Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla) and Jacob Elordi (Elvis Presley), was inspired by the 1985 book, which became a New York Times bestseller at its release. Everyone knew Elvis the legend, but his former wife Priscilla wanted to reveal Elvis the man.
Elvis Presley’s late daughter Lisa Marie was delighted with Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about her superstar father, but she expressed reservations about the forthcoming film focused on her mother, newly viewed emails reveal.
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Angelique Jackson Priscilla Beaulieu was a 14-year-old Army brat when she met the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley, sparking a love story that’s the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. When “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny was 14, she developed a different kind of crush — a cinematic one — on Sofia Coppola. It all started when she watched “The Virgin Suicides,” Coppola’s 1999 feature directorial debut.
Jacob Elordi is opening up about brining the King of Rock and Roll to life in his new movie Priscilla.
the devil in disguise.A mere four months before the singer died of complications resulting from a small bowel obstruction, Presley sent two emails to the director begging her to revise the script for “Priscilla,” according to Variety.The bio-pic, which is based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” focuses on the courtship between the infamous pair which began in Germany in 1959.The issue? Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24. “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” Lisa Marie wrote in a September 2022 email.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Before her death earlier this year, Lisa Marie Presley expressed shock and horror over the depiction of her father Elvis Presley in the script for Sofia Coppola’s new film “Priscilla.” Described in two emails obtained exclusively by Variety, the late Presley asked Coppola to reconsider her vision for the character and to spare her family public embarrassment. The messages were sent four months before Presley suffered fatal cardiac arrest in January.
Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny join forces in their new movie Priscilla, and you might have noticed something interesting about the pair while they’ve been busy promoting the release: Jacob appears to tower over Cailee.
Jio 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 the PVR Maison in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).
Jacob Elordi plays Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla, a film that chronicles the life of Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Valerie Wu Intern Before starring as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” Jacob Elordi was only familiar with the King of Rock and Roll from Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch.” During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” Elordi sat down to discuss his role in the film, which centers on the life of Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and her relationship with Elvis. “The most I know of Elvis was in ‘Lilo & Stitch,'” Elordi admitted.
Independents are out in force with high-profile fall festival fare from Pricilla to The Holdovers, a big Viva Pictures push with Inspector Sun (voiced by Ronny Chieng), Cannes documentary winner Four Daughters and Waikiki, the debut feature by Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana. the first homegrown feature to be shown there.