Elvis' Granddaughter Reveals Reaction To Baz Luhrmann Movie
Elvis Presley's granddaughter, actress and filmmaker Riley Keough, reacts to seeing Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic. The film, which features Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and The Carrie Diaries star Austin Butler as the iconic crooner, is set to premiere in U.S. theaters this summer on June 24, 2022. The film will chronicle his rise to the dazzling heights of being a rocker and movie star, along with his complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). The film's ensemble cast also includes Olivia De Jonge, Dacre Montgomery, and recent The Power of the Dog Oscar nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Keough has made a name for herself that is completely separate from the legacy of Elvis. Although she had acted and modeled before 2015, she burst onto the scene that year as one of Immortan Joe's wives being smuggled out of captivity by Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa in George Miller's action epic Mad Max: Fury Road. Since then, she has held roles in indies including American Honey and Under the Silver Lake, as well as projects from renowned directors including Steven Soderbergh in Logan Lucky and Lars Von Trier in The House that Jack Built. She is also starring in Prime Video's upcoming '70s music biopic series Daisy Jones and the Six.
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Variety had the opportunity to speak with Keough at the Cannes Film Festival, where she is premiering her directorial debut War Pony (which she co-directed with Gina Gammell). She revealed that, while at the festival, she had the opportunity to screen Elvis with her mother Lisa Marie Presley and grandmother Priscilla Presley. She revealed that the film unearthed a lot of family trauma and she "started crying five minutes in and
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