Priscilla Presley opens up about Elvis Presley’s desire to have only one child.
During a Q&A event Friday at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas, the actress, 78, talked about her career, her six-year marriage to the rock icon and more as she explained to the crowd of 400 that her late husband didn’t I don’t want another child after the couple had a daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, in 1968.
“Elvis felt he had a very busy schedule and felt a little guilty that he wasn’t around as much when Lisa was younger,” Priscilla said of how she and Elvis had no plans to expand their family before their 1973 divorce.
“With his schedule and touring, he just felt like he wasn’t around enough to give a lot of attention to having another child.”
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Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley pose for a photo at Aria Resort & Casino in CityCenter in 2011.
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The revelation comes as Priscilla’s romance with the Suspicious Minds singer is documented in a new film Priscilla, directed by Oscar winner Sofia Coppola. The film, currently in cinemas via A24, depicts the love story between Elvis and Priscilla – beginning when they first met in West Germany at the ages of 14 and 24 respectively. Coppola used Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and me as a basis for her scenario.
Actress Cailee Spaeny, who plays the titular Presley in the film opposite Elvis Jacob Elordi, recently spoke to PEOPLE about what it was like to transform into Priscilla on set.
“They worked incredibly hard,” Spaeny, 25, said of the hair, makeup and wardrobe teams, who brought Priscilla’s classic look to life.
Spaeny also explained that while some of the wigs she wore were “difficult,” it was “actually a lot of fun” to be aware of her physical space in that way.
“It was a missing piece of the puzzle and was very informative about how I would navigate the different ages and stages of her life,” she said of Priscilla. “A beehive on your head, and with heels and little dresses you move like a doll.”
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Spaeny, who also spent time with Priscilla before filming, worked to mimic her mannerisms for the film. “She’s a woman from another era,” Spaeny noted.
“She has, what you notice when you are with her, she has this softness in her. It’s very delicate on the surface, but it also has such fierceness in it.”
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In other Priscilla news, the star recently appeared on TalkTV Piers Morgan uncensoredwhere she spoke of her wish to be buried at Graceland near her ex-husband, who died in 1977.
Lisa Marie, Elvis’ father Vernon and his grandmother Minnie, and Lisa Marie’s son Benjamin Keough also have their final resting places at Graceland.
“My feelings [about being buried at Graceland] are great,” said Priscilla. “That, you know, is what I want and wanted.”
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