Episode 32: Priscilla, the Priscilla Presley Biopic Directed by Sofia Coppola

Rena and Sara venture into the much-documented world of Elvis Presley and the people who he trapped in his hunka-hunka-burning-emotional-tractor beam from a heretofore unconsidered POV: his wife, Priscilla Presley. Never has grooming a minor looked so glamorous.

While Sofia Coppola has undisputedly crafted another remote, beautiful piece of art and we loved many things, there are, of course, questions: should Elvis have just gone to college to go through his experimental drug-and-religion phase in relative privacy? How on earth did Priscilla manage to wrestle away control of Elvis’s estate from the Colonel? Was the mansion in The Jerk based on Graceland? 

Come for the discussions of why we’re “meh” on Elvis, stay for the utter joy of an unapologetically female gaze. 

Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley, and Dagmara Dominiczyk as Ann Beaulieu, and is written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

Sources:

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.

Several A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs episodes on Elvis Presley.

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