Cailee Spaeny discusses playing Priscilla Presley and working with Jacob Elordi and her dream director.
You might not know Cailee Spaeny yet, but after her award-winning turn in Sofia Coppola’s 'Priscilla,' you most certainly will.This interview was conducted under a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
By 14, Spaeny says, she had determined that she wasn’t cut out for traditional education. She was failing all of her classes, despite the fact that her teachers liked her and would sometimes secretly let her retake tests. What shehave a talent for was performing, a skill serendipitously spotted while singing in her kids’ rock cover band by a guy who knew a guy who knew a manager.I remember getting the card and thinking it was for the band.
the camera, and she quickly burned through Coppola’s entire body of work. The signature themes of Coppola’s films resonated with teenage Spaeny.“Especially growing up in southern Missouri in the church, I felt like no one had ever really seen or accepted the teen angst a girl can have, the sadness within young teenage girls,” Spaeny says.
The costumes, helmed by longtime Coppola collaborator Stacey Battat, were a huge help, and there were plenty of them for Spaeny to lean on. When Priscilla is with Elvis at the height of his power, the beehive and restrictive clothing required Spaeny to move almost like a doll; older Priscilla sports a tan and casual apparel, allowing Spaeny to feel more at home in her skin.Any fan of Coppola’s work knows the role music plays in her films; that attention to detail extends to her sets as well.
“Yeah! ‘Fade Into You’ is my walk-up song, which is so sick—also from Sofia Coppola’s eyes,” she says, lighting up. “I mean, it doesn’t get any cooler.”needed an Elvis, and Jacob Elordi brings an entirely new take to the oft-imitated legend—not an easy task when so many have been immortalized to film. Elordi’s Elvis is needier, more childlike than the self-assured, swaggered-up versions we’ve seen before, viewed in the quieter moments behind closed doors.
The two are friends, and I tell Spaeny that I have to ask her about a quote Elordi gave me. “Working with Cailee was a dream. Her attention to detail and her care for the work is astounding,” I read to her from his email. “My favorite memory is her reverence of the USS Indianapolis speech fromSpaeny bursts out laughing and covers her face.
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