Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny say ‘Priscilla’ is about true love

Jada Yuan in The Washington Post:

Jacob Elordi is by far the bigger name among the two stars of Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” — having starred in HBO’s “Euphoria” and garnered plenty of tabloid attention for his romances with Zendaya, Kaia Gerber and Olivia Jade Giannulli. But, just like his relatively unknown co-star Cailee Spaeny (HBO’s “Mare of Easttown”), he’d actually never seen himself on a big screen until Coppola’s movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September.

It’s a particular affliction for actors who’ve grown up in the age of streaming: getting great, juicy parts that people mainly watch while they’re doing their laundry. And for Elordi — a 26 year-old native of Brisbane, Australia, who will often go by himself to his local Los Feliz theater for a double feature and who’s spent a lifetime steeping himself in his acting idols, like Marlon Brando, Lawrence Olivier, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Daniel Day-Lewis — this final berth into theaters feels particularly triumphant.

“It’s a whole different world. I love it,” he says, joining Spaeny, 25, for a joint Zoom with The Washington Post, dialing in from a beige room in Los Angeles while wearing a leather jacket and a “James Dean Death Cult” hat adorned with a metal pin of Coppola’s face. “I am so deeply grateful to be going to film festivals that honor cinema and then to be able to sit in these rooms with people and watch the movie on the big screen,” he goes on. “I feel like I’ve been given a golden ticket.”

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