Burning love! Austin Butler is making headlines for his performance in Elvis, but there’s another breakout star in the movie: Olivia DeJonge, who plays Priscilla Presley.
The Australia native, 24, appears as the late singer’s wife, to whom he used to be married from 1967 to 1973. DeJonge has plenty of film and TV roles under her belt, but she was once nonetheless anxious at the prospect of (*5*) — and remains to be dwelling.
“Honestly, I have in mind feeling very intimidated after I got the function, but should you strip it down, she was once 21 or 22,” the Better Watch Out actress instructed British Vogue in an interview published on Wednesday, June 22. “I’ve been in love sooner than, so I can understand what that’s like. It was once in point of fact simply about enjoying somebody supportive and lively.”
Elvis died in August 1977 at age 42, but Priscilla, now 77, has expressed her admiration for each Butler and DeJonge’s performances in the movie. “It is a real story advised brilliantly and creatively that only Baz, in his unique creative way, will have delivered,” the Dallas alum tweeted in April. “Austin Butler, who played Elvis is outstanding. Halfway through the film, Jerry [Schilling] and I looked at each and every other and said ‘WOW!!! Bravo to him.’ He knew he had giant footwear to fill. He was once extremely fearful taking part in this phase. I will be able to simplest believe.”
In an Instagram submit one month later, she published that her and Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, “beloved” the movie when she noticed it. “I relived each and every moment in this film,” Priscilla wrote. “It took me a couple of days to overcome the sentiments as it did with Lisa. Beautifully accomplished Baz [Luhrmann], Tom [Hanks], Austin and Olivia.”
DeJonge, for her phase, was overjoyed to work with Luhrmann, 59, a fellow Australian and director of one in all her favorite films: the 1996 adaptation of Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. “One of the most productive ever made,” the Visit actress told The AU Review on Wednesday. “I in truth studied that film in ninth grade. A humorous little full circle. But yeah, I wrote an essay on it. I will have to in finding that essay and display it to him. He can grade it out of 10.”
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The Staircase megastar also relished the chance to work with Romeo + Juliet‘s dress dressmaker, Catherine Martin, who's married to Luhrmann and ceaselessly collaborates with him on his motion pictures. “Catherine Martin, Baz’s wife and partner, is implausible,” DeJonge gushed to British Vogue of the Oscar winner, 57. “I mean, getting into these costumes, that wig and makeup every day, it really made the rest of the task reasonably simple, as it was once so incredibly immersive.”
Keep scrolling for five things to know about DeJonge.
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