How Old Was Elvis When He Met Priscilla? Elvis, the next film from director Baz Luhrmann, depicts the rise of Memphis truck driver Elvis Presley to the status of King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
The biopic starring Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and his unscrupulous business manager, Colonel Tom Parker, focuses on their tangled relationship (Tom Hanks).
Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge), Elvis’ ex-wife, doesn’t get much screen time in the two-and-a-half-hour epic because the film concentrates on his career ups and downs. According to director Baz Luhrmann, a “4-hour version” of the film goes further into Elvis’ life.
Nevertheless, DeJonge believes that Elvis and Priscilla’s romance, which terminated in 1973 after six years of marriage, is at the core of this somewhat Shakespearean drama.
Many questions (again) the basic foundations of their partnership in light of Luhrmann revisiting Elvis’ legacy and the fact that she was 14 and a decade younger than him when their romance began.
As TIME film critic Stephanie Zacharek writes, she has admitted that the relationship between the two of them, like so many other parts of his legacy, was tangled.
How Old Was Elvis When He Met Priscilla?
According to the film, Priscilla Beaulieu met Elvis Presley during his time in the U.S. Army in West Germany.
A U.S. Air Force officer named Paul Beaulieu was stationed simultaneously with her stepfather.
They met at a party in 1959 when he was 24, and she was 14, a fact the film appears to have overlooked.
Even though she tells Elvis about her parents’ fight over their relationship, Priscilla’s parents seem more concerned about Elvis’ relationship with West Side Story star Natalie Wood than their teenage daughter dating someone ten years older than she is in her retelling of the singer’s fight with her parents.
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