Priscilla’s Cailee Spaeny organized horseback riding to help Elvis star Jacob Elordi get into character

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Preparing to play one of the most iconic couples in music history comes with a fair amount of pressure, as Priscilla’s lead Cailee Spaeny knows all too well. Add to this the tight shooting schedules and limited budget of Sofia Coppola’s biopic charting Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s marriage, and the challenge only grows.

As a result, Spaeny tells GamesRadar+, she went to some unusual lengths with her co-star Jacob Elordi to make sure she was ready in the months leading to filming. "When I found out that Jacob was doing it, I got in touch with him right away over email and said, 'I'm so keen to work with you. If you are open to it, I'd love to meet' and he was," she explains of that preparation period. 

"It was important for me, and I found out that he agreed thankfully, that we just had to feel comfortable around each other and just had to rip the band-aid off and be like, 'You're my friend now, you have no choice.'"

Thankfully too, the pair are equally diligent in their preparation for roles, which meant Spaeny was able to suggest some more unique ways to get into character. "I put together a list of movies that Elvis and Priscilla watched together," she recalls. "I went over to his place and his mom was around and she was cooking and we put on the movie. I scheduled a horseback riding day for us because Elvis and Priscilla loved horses. So it was a bit nerdy of me but I was like, 'If you're down, I'd love to do this.' So by the time we got on set, we really had that rapport going."

She’s adamant that this was necessary too as Priscilla shot on a tight budget with a very speedy 30-day filming period. "We were shooting it so out of order and sometimes we jump into these really intense, intimate scenes, and I don't think