Priscilla Presley CRIES Over Elvis Presley & Addresses Age Gap

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00:00 It's difficult and very difficult to sit and watch a film about you and about your life and about your love.

00:08 And...

00:10 Sorry.

00:15 Priscilla Presley teared up while remembering her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley.

00:23 The 78-year-old attended the Venice Film Festival on Monday for the premiere of Priscilla,

00:28 the highly anticipated Sofia Coppola film centered on her romance with the king of rock and roll.

00:34 Priscilla spoke out during the film's press conference about how it felt to watch a movie based on her life

00:39 and revealed her favorite part.

00:41 What moved you the most about the film and what did you identify the most in it?

00:48 The ending.

00:50 I think that's a really good question.

00:52 I think that's a really good question.

00:54 I think that's a really good question.

00:56 I think that's a really good question.

00:58 I think that's a really good question.

01:00 I think that's a really good question.

01:02 I think that's a really good question.

01:04 I think that's a really good question.

01:06 I think that's a really good question.

01:08 I think that's a really good question.

01:10 I think that's a really good question.

01:12 I think that's a really good question.

01:14 I think that's a really good question.

01:16 [applause]

01:22 I think Sofia did an amazing job.

01:25 I think Sofia did an amazing job.

01:26 She did her homework.

01:28 We spoke a couple of times.

01:30 We spoke a couple of times.

01:31 I really put everything out for her that I could.

01:37 I really put everything out for her that I could.

01:39 The ending.

01:41 The ending.

01:42 The ending.

01:45 For the gentleman who actually was a little bit,

01:48 not a little bit, but before you,

01:50 you talked a bit, you know,

01:52 it was very difficult for my parents to,

01:55 thank you,

01:56 very difficult for my parents to understand

01:59 that Elvis would be so interested in me.

02:02 She also addressed their controversial age gap,

02:05 noting that she was 14 and Elvis was 24 when they first met.

02:09 And I think, I really do think,

02:12 because I was more of a listener,

02:14 Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way,

02:17 in Germany, his fears, his hopes,

02:22 the loss of his mother, which he never, ever got over.

02:26 And I was the person who really,

02:30 really sat there to listen and to comfort him.

02:35 That was really our connection.

02:37 Even though I was 14,

02:39 I was actually a little bit older in life,

02:42 not in numbers.

02:44 And that was the attraction.

02:48 And, you know, people think, "Oh, it was sex, it was this."

02:51 Not at all.

02:53 I never had sex with him.

02:55 He was very kind, very soft, very loving.

02:58 But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old.

03:03 We were more in mind and thought.

03:08 And that was our relationship.

03:12 Yes, he called me when things weren't--

03:16 when he came back to the States.

03:18 That was also part of our relationship,

03:20 telling me all his woes and what was happening

03:23 and how upset he was on the screen with the director.

03:28 And I don't know why he put so much trust in me, but he did.

03:32 And I never, ever, ever told anyone that I was seeing him.

03:37 And that was another issue that he loved,

03:43 is the fact that I never gave him up in any way.

03:47 I never told anyone at school that I was seeing him.

03:51 So we built a relationship, and that relationship went on

03:55 until, yes, I left.

03:59 And it wasn't because I didn't love him.

04:02 He was the love of my life.

04:04 It was the lifestyle that was so difficult for me.

04:08 And I think any woman can relate to that.

04:11 But it didn't mar our relationship.

04:14 We still remain very, very close.

04:17 And of course we had our daughter,

04:19 and I made sure that he saw her all the time.

04:24 And we had--it was like we never left each other.

04:27 So I want to make that clear. Thank you.

04:30 Thank you. Thank you very much.

04:32 Based on her 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me,

04:35 Priscilla stars Kaylee Spaney and Jacob Elordi as the lovebirds.

04:39 Both stars were in attendance at the festival

04:41 alongside their director, Sophia, and Priscilla herself.

04:44 Priscilla and Elvis were married from 1967 to 1973,

04:48 and they shared one daughter together,

04:50 Lisa Marie Presley, who passed away at 54 years old

04:54 back in January.

04:55 It was later revealed that the songwriter died

04:57 as a result of complications from a small bowel obstruction

05:01 that was caused by a weight loss surgery years earlier.

05:04 Just days before Lisa Marie's death,

05:06 she spoke with Access Hollywood at the Golden Globes,

05:08 where she praised Austin Butler for his performance

05:11 in the movie Elvis.

05:13 Hi, everybody.

05:14 Hi.

05:15 Tell me what we're wearing tonight.

05:17 I'm God.

05:19 You're like me.

05:20 It's Valentino.

05:21 Oh, Valentino.

05:22 We just had Austin Butler up here.

05:25 Did you?

05:26 What did this movie mean to you and your family?

05:28 Everything.

05:29 It's just-- it's so incredible.

05:32 There's no words to describe it.

05:36 It's just so-- it's so important, that movie,

05:39 on so many levels.

05:41 And I'm so proud of him and Baz,

05:43 and I'm just here to support them.

05:47 Austin was funny talking about he worked really hard

05:50 to get Elvis' laugh down.

05:53 And it was like a hiccup of the-- did he nail it?

05:56 Absolutely.

05:57 Absolutely.

05:58 Everything, even the voice, the throat.

06:03 Like, what is it?

06:04 He would make these noises sometimes,

06:06 and he got all of it.

06:08 You know?

06:09 I don't know how to describe him,

06:10 but all of his mannerisms, he absolutely nailed it.

06:13 Will you guys stay in touch for this film,

06:16 whenever it goes, whenever he goes,

06:18 whenever he does next?

06:19 Do you see big stuff for Austin?

06:21 I do.

06:22 I do.

06:23 Such a sweetheart.

06:24 And just as good, as Jerry was saying,

06:26 as good offscreen as he is on-- amazing.

06:28 Such a sweetheart, like an authentic, true sweetheart.

06:31 I was his dad's friend, so.

06:33 Were you guys happy with the whole depiction of everything?

06:36 What a beautiful story.

06:37 Absolutely.

06:38 He likes it, 'cause there's a lot about him in the movie.

06:41 Yeah, Luke Bracey plays me in the movie.

06:43 Oh, nice, nice.

06:44 Yeah, yeah.

06:45 Well, enjoy tonight.

06:46 It's gonna be a spectacular night.

06:47 Nice to meet you.

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