Jacob Elordi Says He Ate a Pound of Bacon Every Day to Play Elvis in Priscilla: 'Biggest I've Ever Been'

“[The real-life] Priscilla told us that Elvis liked his bacon really burnt,” director Sofia Coppola told Entertainment Weekly.

Jacob Elordi really got into the character for Priscilla.

The 26-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the recently released film alongside Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, opened up about his preparations for the pork-inspired role in an interview with Entertainment Weekly alongside Spaeny, 25, and director Sofia Coppola.

“I was eating a pound of bacon a day on average,” Elordi said. “It’s not that visible because I’m quite tall, but I was the biggest of them all.”

His comments came after Coppola, 52, told the publication: “[The real-life] Priscilla told us that Elvis liked his bacon very burnt.”

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny inside Priscilla (2023).

Sabrina Lantos/a24

Cailee Spaeny explains the ‘incredible responsibility’ of playing Priscilla Presley in the Priscilla Clip (Exclusive)

Last month, Spaeny and Elordi opened up at a press conference at the New York Film Festival about how they worked together to trace the timeline of Elvis’ relationship with Priscilla as the film weaves 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, Cailee 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.”

“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.

Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny inside Priscilla (2023).

Philippe Le Sourd/A24

The ‘wild’ romance of Elvis and Priscilla Presley and the true story behind it Priscilla (Exclusive)

Elordi appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 23, where he discussed his role in the film and admitted that, before signing on, he didn’t know much about Elvis other than the 2002 Disney animated film. Lilo & Stitch.

Host Fallon, 49, asked: “Were you an Elvis fan growing up?” The Euphoria the actor replied, “No. Most of what I knew about Elvis was inside Lilo & Stitch … which, by the way, is a lot.”

Before the news of his Priscilla Casting, Elordi talked about being inspired by the king of rock and roll in August 2022. GQ interview, in which it was stated that the actor bought Peter Guralnick’s biography of Presley Last train to Memphis after seeing the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis.

“I was like, hell, Elvis Presley wanted to be James Dean. He wanted to be Marlon Brando. I researched almost every actor from that era and I passed [Elvis] as an entertainer and a singer,” Elordi said at the time. “But then he was an actor.”

He added: “I guess, in a way, I try to learn from those people. Because obviously I don’t have friends who have been through the same thing, really, so they’re almost like a beacon to me.”

Priscilla it’s in theaters now.

Categories: Trends
Source: HIS Education