Priscilla Presley Says Elvis ‘Respected the Fact I Was Only 14’ When They First Met: ‘He Was Very Kind’
Presley spread out at the press conference for Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’ at Venice Film Festival on Monday
Priscilla Presley got candid approximately the age hole between her and Elvis.
At the Venice Film Festival press convention for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming biopic, Priscilla, on Monday, the previous wife of the late rock superstar, seventy eight, spread out about meeting Elvis when he become 24 and she or he became 14, which the movie depicts.
The popular culture icon said that the singer usually “reputable” her age and explained they had an immediately connection after they met on a army base in Germany because they felt as though they might speak to one another.
“People think, ‘Oh, it become sex.’ No, it wasn’t,” Presley said at the click convention. “I never had sex with him.
He turned into very type, very tender, very loving, but he additionally respected the truth I turned into only 14 years antique. We have been greater in line in idea, and that changed into our dating.”
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She continued, “It become very hard for my dad and mom to recognize that Elvis might be so interested in me and why.
And I sincerely do think due to the fact I changed into more of a listener.
Elvis could pour his heart out to me in every manner in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the lack of his mom — which he in no way, ever got over.
And I changed into the person that in reality, certainly sat there to pay attention and to comfort him.
That turned into without a doubt our connection.”
“Even though I was 14, I turned into absolutely a bit bit older in lifestyles — not in numbers. That turned into the appeal,” she introduced.
Presley additionally spoke about how she basically saw Elvis in private on the time. The musician’s ex-spouse shared,
“I didn’t realize why he placed so much agree with in me, but he did.
And I in no way, ever, ever instructed every body that I became seeing him, and that was another problem that he loved, is the reality that I by no means gave him up in any way.
I by no means informed every body at school that I turned into seeing him. So, we built a dating and then our dating went on until I left.”
“It wasn’t due to the fact I didn’t love him — he became the love of my life,” Presley then said approximately her separation from the recording artist in 1972.
“It changed into the lifestyle that became so difficult for me, and I suppose any lady can relate to that.”
She persevered, “But it didn’t mar our dating, we still remained very near.
And of direction, we had our daughter [Lisa Marie], and I made positive that he saw her all of the time. It turned into like we never left every other.”
The co-founder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterprises, who turned into stated to be emotional in the course of the click convention, also sung praises of Coppola’s movie approximately her life. “It’s very hard to sit and watch a film about you, about your life, approximately your love,” Presley stated while reportedly tearing up.
“Sofia did an excellent job. She did her homework, we spoke a couple of instances and I clearly placed everything out for her that I ought to.”
Coppola’s new movie, which stars Jacob Elordi, 26, and Cailee Spaeny, 25, as Elvis and Priscilla, respectively, is based totally on Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me and tells their tale from her angle.
It significantly turned into not given the rights to the rock famous person’s tune through Elvis Presley Enterprises, unlike Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 movie Elvis starring Austin Butler.
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Presley walked the red carpet of the A24 movie’s international optimum and appeared at the click conference together with the author-director and stars Elordi and Spaeny.
(Priscilla become granted a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement waiver amid the strike since it become filmed in Canada with a non-AMPTP studio.)
Presley, whose ex-husband died at age forty two in 1977 and whose only daughter with him, Lisa Marie Presley, died at age fifty four in January, has spoken about being “frightened” for audiences to peer the film.
“I’m so nervous because it’s my existence,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter in an August interview. “The individuals who are looking, they’re dwelling it with you, and you desire and pray that they get it. They get your feelings, your hurts, your sensitivity.”