Jacob Elordireally got into character forPriscilla.
The 26-year-old actor, who playsElvis Presleyin the newly released film oppositeCailee SpaenyasPriscilla Presley, opened up about his pork-inspired preparation for the role in an interview withEntertainment Weeklyalongside Spaeny, 25, and directorSofia Coppola.
“I averaged, like, apound of bacon a day,” Elordi said. “It’s not that noticeable ‘cause I’m quite long, but I was the biggest I’ve ever been.”
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Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny inPriscilla(2023).Sabrina Lantos/a24
Sabrina Lantos/a24
Last month, Spaeny and Elordi opened up at aNew York Film Festivalpress conference about how they worked together to keep track of the timeline of Elvis’ relationship with Priscilla as the film weaves in and out between 1959 and 1973.
“There is no gap in Cailee’s performance,” Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the movie. “I would go [on set] — and I’m fairly well prepared performer — and I would say, ‘What year is this?’ And she would pull out a script and she had every single thing catalogued to the year. So any in-between, Cailee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks.”
“Wewere good study buddies,” Spaeny joked. “We’d be like, ‘This [scene] is looking like ‘65!’ "
Elordi added that he and Spaeny “were pretty dorky about the whole thing.”
“I sort of built Elvis and Cailee built Priscilla [as characters], and I think we kind of met in the middle on those gaps to where we we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on screen,” he said.
Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny inPriscilla(2023).Philippe Le Sourd/A24
Philippe Le Sourd/A24
Elordi appeared onThe Tonight ShowStarring Jimmy Fallonon Oct. 23, where he discussed his role in the film and admitted that, before signing on, he hadn’t known much about Elvis outside of the 2002 animated Disney filmLilo & Stitch.
“I was just like, damn, Elvis Presley wanted to beJames Dean. He wanted to beMarlon Brando. I’ve researched almost every actor from that time period, and I passed [Elvis] off as an entertainer and singer,” Elordi said at the time. “But then he was an actor.”
He added, “I guess, in a way, I’m trying to learn from these people. Because I obviously don’t have any friends that have been through the same thing, really, so they’re almost like guiding beacons.”
Priscillais in theaters now.
source: people.com
