'I felt like my role was just to explain her experience,' Coppola says of her new film, Priscilla. The filmmaker also has a new book, Archive, which collects documents from her eight movies.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley are iconic figures in American culture and folklore —"kind of the closest we have to royalty," she says. Though Coppola knew Priscilla was 10 years younger than her husband, she never really understood what that age gap meant until she read Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir,"I felt like my role was just to explain her experience and always go through point of view," Coppola says of the film.
Through TikTok and streaming, a new generation of young women — some born after her earlier films were released — have discovered her work."There's girls and women that feel seen, and a lot of them are telling me they want to be filmmakers," she says."It's so exciting that I think, 'Oh my God, there's going to be a huge wave of all these films made by these young women that I can't wait to see.
One of the details from the book that I loved, that is in the film, is that she was putting on her false eyelashes as she was going into labor — just the commitment to glamour at all times. I think she was always"done." I don't think she ever went downstairs without full hair and makeup and dressed completely. And she said he always came down in a full outfit, like there was no lounging around and outside.I can't imagine anything on the scale of what she went through.
I didn't listen to a lot of that music growing up, but I always loved girl groups and Phil Spector, so that was familiar to me. That's my favorite of that era. And there's something about the Phil Spector sound that has, like, a grandeur and this big production, and it's kind of swelling and strings. It's really romantic. And I wanted the story to be ultra romantic, of her first teen love and sort of this fairy tale.
By making this book, it was nice to just have a moment where I looked like,"Wow, I have a whole body of work!" ... You don't usually sit back and see that, but yeah, I'm so grateful because it was really ... a lot of work and really daunting in the beginning of my career to be taken seriously and to make a name for myself. ... So to be at this point where people respect my work and see me that way, it's really gratifying.Marie Antoinette.
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