December 23, 2023 @ 1:03 PM
Sofia Coppola’s latest movie “Priscilla” is based upon Priscilla Presley’s narrative “Elvis and Me.” The supervisor reviewed making the movie, consisting of the dual requirements she and various other women supervisors are commonly strained with, in an extensive meeting with the BBC that was released on Friday.
She clarified partly, “I just see all these men getting hundreds of millions of dollars and then I’m fighting for a tiny fraction of that.”
“I think it’s just left over from the way the culture of that business is,” Coppola proceeded. “It’s frustrating but I’m always fighting to get it and I’m just happy to get to make my movies independently and find people that believe in them.”
Coppola included that not needing to the very same funds that numerous male supervisors obtain has its positive side– imaginative self-reliance. As she placed it, “There’s a challenge and a freedom in making things small because if you have a big budget, you have a lot of input from studio executives, and I would never be able to make a movie like that.”
She proceeded, “So I have that freedom. And then you have to be really crafty and it was really hard but I had the best team… we were able to re-use sets and I don’t know how we made so many costumes! It was all hands on deck and just having really creative department heads.”
Coppola additionally discussed Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” which was launched in June 2022. She emphasized that “Priscilla” had not been made in response to the Austin Butler-helmed movie, though everybody assumed it was. She clarified, “When I started working on this, they were talking about how Baz was making his: ‘Are you sure you want to do this as there’s already an Elvis movie?’”
“And I was like: ‘Even better, that’s so interesting that the culture is going to be focused on him and then a year later to see the same kind of story, but from her point of view… to have this counter balance,’” Coppola clarified.
Based Upon the 1985 narrative “Elvis and Me,” the movie represents Priscilla Presley’s life with Elvis Presley from her vantage. Priscilla satisfied her fiancé when she was just 14 and he was 24; she relocated to his home in Memphis prior to she finished secondary school.
While talking at the Venice Movie Celebration in September, Priscilla clarified, “It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why. I really do think it was because I was more of a listener.”
“Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother, which he never ever got over,” she proceeded. “And I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection.”
Priscilla additionally discussed the extra intimate information of her life with Elvis prior to they wed. “Even though I was 14, I was actually a little bit older in life – not in numbers. That was the attraction. People think: ‘Oh, it was sex.’ No, it wasn’t. I never had sex with him,” she claimed.
“He was very kind, very soft, very loving, but he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. We were more in line in thought, and that was our relationship,” Priscilla wrapped up.
