Cailee Spaeny Jokes She and Jacob Elordi Were ‘Good Study Buddies’ When Researching for Priscilla

Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi have done their Presley homework.

While Spaeny, 25, and Elordi, 26, were speaking at the New York Film Festival press conference for Sofia Coppola’s new film Priscilla On Friday, they said they pooled their brains to follow the timeline of Elvis Presley’s relationship with Priscilla Presley as the film moves between 1959 and 1973.

“There’s no gap in Cailee’s performance,” Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the film. “I would go [on set] — and I’m a pretty well-prepared performer — and I’d say, ‘What year is this?’ She would pull out the script and have everything cataloged by the year. So anytime in between, Kaylee would know exactly what happened in those suggestive gaps.”

“We were good study buddies,” Spaeny joked. “We would say, ‘This [scene] looks like ’65!’ ”

Elordi added that he and Spaeny “were pretty stupid about the whole thing.”

Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi chronicle Presley’s highs and lows in new trailer for Sofia Coppola’s film Priscilla

Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.

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“I made Elvis and Cailee made Priscilla [as characters]and I think we kind of met in the middle at those gaps where we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on the screen,” he said.

Priscilla follows the famous couple’s relationship from the moment 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 late Lisa Marie Presley.

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Spaeny, which previously appeared in 2018 Based on gender and in 2021 How it endsshe told reporters that Priscilla “was gracious with her time” when they first met to 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 with me, and I really tried not to make it seem like I was trying [interrogate her] or something,” Spaeny said. “I just tried to sit back and see how comfortable she was to tell me.”

Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in ‘Priscilla’.

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“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 is a woman from another time, another generation. She is actually American royalty. So the way she carries herself now and in [preparing]all the mannerisms and the way she speaks and the way she goes about her life are very important.”

Priscilla it’s in theaters on November 3.

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