Elvis and Me<\/a>, so you can imagine the details are spot-on.<\/p>\nLike arriving at Graceland, Elvis\u2019s famed Memphis home, to find a stuffed tiger in the bedroom and a puppy waiting for her in a pen, to keep her company while he\u2019s on yet another film shoot. \u201cShe\u2019s like a little girl,\u201d comments one bitchy onlooker, and the film truly amps up her na\u00efvet\u00e9.<\/p>
Opposite Spaeny, Euphoria star Jacob Elordi plays Elvis. He captures the singer\u2019s distinct Southern drawl with ease, put to good use in one early scene where Priscilla glimpses him at a party, where he\u2019s singing Whole Lotta Shakin\u2019 Goin\u2019 On, even catching a glass that falls from the piano as he finishes the song.<\/p>\n
True, he doesn\u2019t get the physical workout that Austin Butler got in Luhrmann\u2019s film, although we do see a glimpse of him performing the famed \u201968 Comeback Special, all in black leather, and taking a bow in the Las Vegas residency, white cape and all.<\/p>\n
Although the film isn\u2019t quite as interior as you might hope, it\u2019s still very much from Priscilla\u2019s perspective. Maybe that\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t really matter that the Presley estate didn\u2019t license his music here, beyond a blast of Guitar Man and the strains of Love Me Tender.<\/p>\n
Instead, much in the way Coppola approached her 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette, we get unusual, anachronistic choices like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts\u2019 cover of Crimson and Clover, a song the director recently used in a commercial tribute to Suntory whiskey starring Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n