Sofia Coppola considered having a pickleball match with Jacob Elordi to increase the budget for ‘Priscilla’
Sofia Coppola considered drawing a pickleball game with Jacob Elordi to raise money. “He can play pickleball,” he said. Coppola about the interpreter Elvis Presley in his new film, Priscilla, to the Wall Street Journal (via Variety). “Our budget was always tight, low, and I was like, ‘I wonder if we could draw a pickleall game with Jacob to raise some money and be able to guarantee another day of filming?'”
“We didn’t do it, but he’s good at the sport. He forgave me, even though he’s not an enthusiast. I think he associates it with the mothers in Malibu,” explained the director.
The role of Priscilla stayed for Cailee Spaeny. The actress was nominated for Kirsten Dunstwho worked with Coppola in the movies The Virgin Suicides (1999) and The Stranger We Love (2017), for example.
“Kirsten She’s like a sister to me. When she recommended CaileeI paid attention,” he revealed Sofia. She further added that the role was offered to Spaeny right on the first date he had with her.
Source: Rollingstone
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