Jacob Elordi’s Elvis Voice
Watch Jacob Elordi’s Elvis voice here. Before getting the role of Elvis, Jacob Elordi confessed that he didn’t know much about Elivs other than what he learned from the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch.
He talked to Jimmy Fallon about the audition process and how he didn’t think he would get the role. “Sofia had sent me these sides that said Elvis, and I kind of was just like, ‘There’s just no chance that this is happening,’” Elordi recalled. “So I watched this clip of him when he came back from the Army in Germany and I read the lines for like 15 minutes and then shot two takes, not thinking that it would go anywhere.”
Coppola ended up liking Elordi’s rendition. “The whole time I was trying to take [‘Priscilla’] like I was making ‘Blue Valentine’ or something,” Elordi said, referencing Derek Cianfrance’s 2010 drama. “Just like a straight-up relationship drama without Elvis and Priscilla, for Sofia Coppola. That was the goal.”
Elordi, Coppola, and Cailee Spainey revealed that Priscilla loved Elordi’s voice from the get-go. “I’m pretty lucky to kind of be in his register anyway,” says Elordi in a Vanity Fair video. “But I think, for me, it was trying to invent what he would sound like behind closed doors, because everyone has a performing voice and a speaking voice.”
Coppola recounted the time Priscilla praised Elordi’s performance. “When we watched the film with Priscilla the first time, what struck her the most was how much his voice sounded like Elvis, so that was a big thrill,” Coppola says. Adds Elordi, “It was a great relief.”
