Priscilla Presley attended the photocall for Sofia Coppola’s film Priscilla at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
The former wife of Elvis was also in the audience for the much-anticipated film’s screening and spoke about her and the late rock and roll icon’s relationship.
Based on Priscilla’s memoir Elvis and Me, 52-year-old Sofia’s upcoming flick follows the 78-year-old’s life with The King, to whom she was married for six years.
Cailee Spaeny stars as Priscilla while Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi plays Elvis.
From Priscilla and Elvis’ first meeting when the former was just a teenager to their 1967 wedding and the birth of their only daughter Lisa Marie in 1968, Priscilla praised Sofia’s film on Monday, saying the director did ‘an amazing job’.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Priscilla paid an ‘emotional’ tribute to her late husband, who died in 1977, saying: ‘It’s very difficult to watch a film about you and about your life and about your love.
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‘But Sofia did an amazing job. She did her homework. And I really put everything out for her that I could.’
She also insisted she and Elvis ‘never had sex’ upon first meeting, when Priscilla was just 14.
‘Elvis would pour his heart out to me,’ she continued.
‘Even though I was 14, I was older in life than in years.
‘And that was the attraction. People think, “Oh, it was sex, it was this”.
‘Not at all. I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old.
‘We were more in mind and thought and that was our relationship.’
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It was announced last September that Sofia would direct an adaptation of Priscilla’s memoir and filming wrapped three months later.
When asked what made her want to adapt the biography for her next feature film, the director told Vogue: ‘I’ve had her memoir for years and remember reading it a long time ago.
‘A friend of mine was talking about her recently, and we got around to discussing the book. I read it again and was really moved by her story.’
She continued to the publication: ‘I was just so interested in Priscilla’s story and her perspective on what it all felt like to grow up as a teenager in Graceland.
‘She was going through all the stages of young womanhood in such an amplified world—kinda similar to Marie Antoinette.’
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