Who Is Cailee Spaeny? 5 Things to Know About the Actress Playing Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Biopic
21.06.2023 - 18:53
/ usmagazine.com
Cailee Spaeny is getting all shook up in Sofia Coppola’s highly anticipated Priscilla biopic.
Coppola, 52, teamed up with A24 to adapt Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me, about Priscilla’s relationship with Elvis Presley from their courtship to eventual divorce.
“I’m excited to do something rooted in that Americana style for the first time. And Priscilla is a quintessential glamour icon,” the filmmaker told Vogue in October 2022. “I was just so interested in Priscilla’s story and her perspective on what it all felt like to grow up as a teenager in Graceland. She was going through all the stages of young womanhood in such an amplified world — kind of similarly to [my movie] Marie Antoinette.”
Spaeny, 24, will lead the upcoming film as Priscilla opposite Euphoria star Jacob Elordi as the King of Rock ’n’ Roll himself. A trailer for Priscilla dropped on Wednesday, June 21, with Spaeny’s Priscilla taking center stage.
“Priscilla, what about boys at school? Must be some handsome ones?” The actress playing Priscilla’s mother, Anna Iversen, said in the clip as Spaeny gave her onscreen mom a knowing look before the video flashed forward to Spaeny and Elordi’s characters kissing on their wedding day. (The real-life couple, who shared daughter Lisa Marie Presley, were married between 1967 and 1973.)
Spaeny’s starring role in Priscilla is hardly her first acting role. The Missouri native booked her first gig in 2018, playing Amara Namani in Pacific Rim: Uprising.
“I was 18 when I got my first role and now I would say I could have waited a couple more years. But movies are my home and I think it’s hard for any young girl in these times with social media,” she told Glass Magazine in August 2021.”
Since then, Spaeny has continued