Jacob Elordi Says He Ate a Pound of Bacon Every Day to Play Elvis in “Priscilla”: 'Biggest I've Ever Been'
"[The real-life] Priscilla told us that Elvis liked really burned bacon," director Sofia Coppola told 'Entertainment Weekly'
Jacob Elordi really got into character for Priscilla.
The 26-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the newly released film opposite Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, opened up about his pork-inspired preparation for the role in an interview with Entertainment Weekly alongside Spaeny, 25, and director Sofia Coppola.
"I averaged, like, a pound of bacon a day," Elordi said. "It's not that noticeable 'cause I'm quite long, but I was the biggest I've ever been."
His comments came after Coppola, 52, told the publication, "[The real-life] Priscilla told us that Elvis liked really burned bacon."
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Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla (2023)Last month, Spaeny and Elordi opened up at a New York Film Festival press conference about how they worked together to keep track of the timeline of Elvis' relationship with Priscilla as the film weaves in and out between 1959 and 1973.
"There is no gap in Cailee's performance," Elordi said when asked how the actors approached moments where significant time passes within moments in the movie. "I would go [on set] — and I'm fairly well prepared performer — and I would say, 'What year is this?' And she would pull out a script and she had every single thing catalogued to the year. So any in-between, Cailee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks."
"We were good study buddies," Spaeny joked. "We'd be like, 'This [scene] is looking like '65!' "
Elordi added that he and Spaeny "were pretty dorky about the whole thing."
"I sort of built Elvis and Cailee built Priscilla [as characters], and I think we kind of met in the middle on those gaps to where we we had our own language of the entire timeline, not just what was shown on screen," he said.
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Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla (2023)Related: Elvis and Priscilla Presley's 'Wild' Romance and the True Story Behind Priscilla (Exclusive)
Elordi appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 23, where he discussed his role in the film and admitted that, before signing on, he hadn't known much about Elvis outside of the 2002 animated Disney film Lilo & Stitch.
Host Fallon, 49, asked, "Growing up, were you an Elvis fan?" The Euphoria actor responded, "No. The most I knew of Elvis was in Lilo & Stitch ... which is a lot, by the way."
Prior to the news of his Priscilla casting, Elordi spoke about being inspired by the King of Rock and Roll in an August 2022 GQ interview, which noted that the actor bought Peter Guralnick's Presley biography Last Train to Memphis after seeing the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's movie Elvis.
"I was just like, damn, Elvis Presley wanted to be James Dean. He wanted to be Marlon Brando. I've researched almost every actor from that time period, and I passed [Elvis] off as an entertainer and singer," Elordi said at the time. "But then he was an actor."
He added, "I guess, in a way, I'm trying to learn from these people. Because I obviously don't have any friends that have been through the same thing, really, so they're almost like guiding beacons."
Priscilla is in theaters now.
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