A month or so before filming started, in September 2022, Lisa Marie emailed Coppola twice to voice her reservations over an early draught of the screenplay and its portrayal of the King of Rock and Roll. Variety was able to get these emails. Regarding Coppola’s Priscilla script, Lisa Marie, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 54, supposedly remarked, “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative.”

She added, “As his daughter, I don’t read this and see any of my father in this character. I don’t read this and see my mother’s perspective of my father. I read this and see your shockingly vengeful and contemptuous perspective and I don’t understand why?”

A month or so before filming started, in September 2022, Lisa Marie emailed Coppola twice to voice her reservations over an early draught of the screenplay and its portrayal of the King of Rock and Roll. Variety was able to get these emails. Regarding Coppola’s Priscilla script, Lisa Marie, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 54, supposedly remarked, “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative.”

It was really important that I felt that Priscilla felt that her story was represented in a way that was true to her,” stated the director. “Priscilla exclaimed, ‘Cailee actually, that’s how I felt,’ as soon as she saw the last film. She said that honestly. She also expressed amazement at how much Jacob’s voice resembled Elvis, saying that it was rather satisfying to hear that from her.”