Lisa Marie PresleyandRiley Keoughare opening up about the layered feelingsBaz Luhrmann’sElvisis bringing up in their family.
In a preview oftheir sit-down withABC News’Chris ConnellyfromExclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20, airing in full Tuesday night, the mother-daughter duo raved about the upcoming drama, starringAustin Butleras Lisa Marie’s father and Keough’s grandfather, the lateElvis Presley.
“It was such an emotional [experience],” Lisa Marie, 54, addedin the clip, shown Tuesday morning onGood Morning America. “Like Riley said, it just brings up such generational trauma — in a good way.”
Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley.Warner Bros.
“And Riley, 5 minutes in, was already like, ‘I’m done.’ She was already crying and I was crying,” she added.
Said actress and filmmaker Keough, 33, “It was really intense. As a film, it’s just an exceptional film.”
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“I’m sitting there watching this movie and going, ‘God, I wish he could see this,’ " Priscilla said of the film and howshe thinks her late ex-husband would reactto it. “It was perfection.”
The pair talked about a moment in the movie when Priscilla asks Elvis to go seek treatment for his “drug dependency,” with Priscilla saying the scene brought back “memories.”
Austin Butler inElvis(2022); Elvis Presley.Warner Bros.; Liaison
Priscilla also praised 30-year-old Butler’sperformance as the late rock-and-roller, who died in 1977.
“Austin was just unbelievable,” she said. “As I was watching it, actually, I was going, ‘Wow, this is a movie that [Elvis] would have really loved.’ Showing who he was, what he was striving for, what his dreams were.”
“I’m so happy that she was sensitive and that she was caring and that she was a little strong with him as well, and you know, I thought she did a really, really nice job, I was pleasantly surprised,” Priscilla admitted.
Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
Elvisis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
