When she won the Volpe Trophy for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in September 2023, Kylie Spahn was definitely a non-starter. Because it’s been five years since the public had several opportunities to see him: in Bad Times at the El Royale Hotel, Vice, Pacific Rim 2, the (failed) reboot of The Craft, or Alex Garland’s Devs series.
More or less successful works, but which did not allow the American born on July 24, 1998 to really show off. Until Sofia Coppola, who has never made a casting mistake, chose her to play Priscilla in the biopic about Elvis Presley’s wife.
Once again, the director of Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation got it right. And, by bringing Kaley Spahn to that Venice award (and then a Golden Globe nomination), he made her one of the faces to watch next year while two major projects loomed.
In France, it also opens the ball and the cinema this year, as Priscilla is released in our cinemas on January 3, 2024. It would end up pulling in just under 300,000 viewers, making it one of the lowest scores ever. Its director in France, but Kyle Spahn is unanimous, and the public is beginning to remember his name.
Kaylee has a very expressive face and an uncanny ability to transform herself according to the different stages of life she has to portray.– says Sofia Coppola about her actor. “She could play a fifteen-year-old girl in the morning and a pregnant twenty-year-old woman in Graceland the same day. Kayleigh has an ability to share her emotions, which is so beautiful and a little mysterious.”
We find the notion of transformation at the heart of the roles he plays in the following two films: Alex Garland’s Civil War, with Kirsten Dunst, Sofia Coppola’s previous muse, who recommended him to direct Priscilla, made after this opus. and Alien: Romulus, a new episode of the much-loved sci-fi and horror saga.
Kayleigh has a very expressive face and an uncanny ability to transform herself into the different stages of life she has to portray.
Three feature films in which his character combines worlds (The World of Elvis, The Daily Life of War Reporters in America in Fire and Blood, A Space Station in which No One Can Hear His Screams) where he is forced. To toughen up and grow fast to overcome the trials in his path.
With its xenomorph, facehuggers, and everything that entails in terms of gore and violence, Alien: Romulus is the most extreme example. And surprisingly, it proves that he can helm a project of this magnitude, and that he’s not afraid of Sigourney Weaver’s shadow hanging over the franchise, which Noomi Rapace and Katherine Waterston have clashed with before her.
Like the film itself in its treatment of elders, it doesn’t try to replace the one who started it all, but to take inspiration from it: “I really did my best to bring my character to life”he told her The whole movie. Watching Sigourney in this role because it helped change everything just like those movies.
“I could never be her. But I poured everything I had into that character and tried to make her three-dimensional. As much as possible.” It comes through on screen, through this mix of vulnerability/sensitivity and strength that she really possesses. With constant intensity, it touches on the relationship between Rain and her brother Andy (David Johnson Frey), as well as when it comes to picking up a weapon to fight the Xenomorph.
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It’s hard, at this point, not to think of Ellen Ripley at the end of Aliens , but that’s nothing more than a coincidence. And proof that Kyle Spann embodies the next generation. No Need to Stay in Space : As with every Opus, Romulus closes his plot, leaving it open for the survivors to return if they succeed.
Noomi Rapace and Katherine Waterston weren’t allowed to, and we’ll have to see what happens to Kaley Spahn in a little while, and director Fede Alvarez insists he’s not trying to make a trilogy.
Anger and investigation on the agenda
But it doesn’t matter, the actor will return in 2025 in two of the hottest projects of the moment: the 2nd season of the serial series Acharnés and Wake Up Dead Man, the third episode of Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig’s Knives saga. Detective Benoit Blanc.
Two sensational titles and proof that Hollywood is, rightfully, embracing Kaley Spahn, the major revelation of this film year, who knows how to challenge the icons (Elvis, Kirsten Dunst, The Creature from Alien) of growing up.
Source: Allocine
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