“He’s not like you imagine,”
Priscilla Presley tells her concerned mother at one point in
Priscilla,
the new biopic from acclaimed director Sofia Coppola.
“He needs me, mom.” The ‘he’ in question is, of course, the King Of Rock’n’Roll, played in the movie by 26-year-old Jacob Elordi, who puts in a portrait of Elvis Presley like no other. Adapted from Priscilla’s bombshell 1985 autobiography, which was written with the late author Sandra Harmon, this is a collection of scenes from the other side of that infamous marriage.
And it’s one in which Elvis emerges as shy and somewhat insecure, a young man frozen by fame. He’s adrift after the death of his beloved mother, Gladys, and his career looks uncertain amid his Colonel-sanctioned stint in the Army.