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Adam Dunn, who plays Elvis' upright bassist Bill Black, had never previously played the instrum [...]
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During the film's early stages, costume designer Catherine Martin was pondering how she and her [...]
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Out of all of the outfits he's worn in the film, Austin Butler kept the black leather comeback [...]
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Elvis Presley wore makeup in real life. He was very fond of makeup, especially eyeliner. While [...]
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During the scene where Elvis Presley's family is calming him down and coaching him through his [...]
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There are several visual effects artists and crew for the film that were uncredited. These crew [...]
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Due to Elvis Presley wearing eyeliner in real life, hair and makeup designer Shane Thomas wante [...]
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While researching about Elvis Presley's life during the film's early stages, director Baz Luhrm [...]
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Austin Butler was born fourteen years and a day after Elvis Presley's death. Butler's birthday [...]
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Tom Hanks had previously played an Elvis impersonator in Se ti investo mi sposi? (2004).
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The film is the fourth biographical media adaptation about Elvis Presley that's simply titled, [...]
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Throughout the film, "Colonel" Tom Parker has a Dutch accent in some scenes. Although this may [...]
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The comics young Elvis is reading are of Captain Marvel Junior (Freddy Freeman). This was Elvis [...]
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When approached by Elvis to work on his '68 Special, Steve Binder says that he doesn't really w [...]
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For his audition tape, Austin Butler originally recorded himself singing "Love Me Tender." When [...]
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Austin Butler and Tom Hanks co-star in this film. Butler would go on to star in the miniseries [...]
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RCA purchased Elvis Presley's contract from Sam Phillips and Sun Studio for $35,000 which, at t [...]
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Hollywood makeup veteran, Daniel C. Striepeke, who had been Tom Hanks' personal makeup artist o [...]
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Bob Finkel, who was one of the producers of the Elvis: The Comeback Special (1968), was given t [...]
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Though Parker stated that Elvis' film career started after his service in the army was complete [...]
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This was Baz Luhrmann's third movie to be Filmed in Panavision (anamorphic) since Moulin Rouge! [...]
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Despite Little Richard being two years older than Elvis Presley, Alton Mason, who portrays Litt [...]
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After wrapping up the filming of the movie, Austin Butler was rushed to the hospital where he's [...]
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Despite his slim appearance as a young man, Elvis had been a talented amateur boxer in his yout [...]
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Throughout filming, Austin Butler never got sick. It wasn't until after filming had wrapped tha [...]
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While director Baz Luhrmann was going over auditions, including Austin Butler's audition for th [...]
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This is the first full-on, big-screen, theatrical biographical film about Elvis Presley. Other [...]
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Before the film's release, Austin Butler's performance earned immense critical claim, which ear [...]
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Baz Luhrmann: [a deceased character shown from afar laying in a casket] In this film, after Gla [...]
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Austin Butler and Elvis Presley are actually 16th cousins twice removed. Elvis' father, Vernon [...]
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Elvis was the first person in his immediate family to earn a high school diploma. He graduated [...]
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In the movie title "ELVIS" as well as movie posters, inside the "V" letter there are three litt [...]
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When Elvis' mother, Gladys Presley, passed away, she was buried in a Copper coffin. When Elvis [...]
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Prada made some of Austin Butler's Elvis looks. In particular, during the scene where Elvis vis [...]
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Despite Elvis's Evangelical Christian upbringing in the deep south, his mother, Gladys Presley, [...]
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This is Shonka Dukureh's first and last film. Tragically, a month after the film's release, Duk [...]
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The entire film was shot on location in Queensland, Australia.
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Austin Butler does his own singing and dancing as young Elvis. From the 1968 special onwards, h [...]
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After filming had wrapped, Austin Butler went through an existential crisis after spending two [...]
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It took four and a half hours of makeup and prosthetics for Austin Butler to physically transfo [...]
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While filming was delayed for six months due to COVID-19 and being quarantined in Australia, Au [...]
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Despite the film depicting Elvis discovering "Colonel" Parker being an undocumented immigrant a [...]
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While doing a cast round table for Entertainment Weekly, Tom Hanks stated that the letters that [...]
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The marquee showing "The Star Trek Experience" in Las Vegas is anachronistic, as the show would [...]
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Though the film originally had two release dates that were subsequently derailed by COVID-19, t [...]
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The film was originally going to be released on October 1, 2021. But, it was delayed and moved [...]
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This is the second film in which Tom Hanks's character meets a young Elvis Presley. The first f [...]
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The Elvis: The Comeback Special (1968) was filmed during the summer and aired on December 3, 19 [...]
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The film is director Baz Luhrmann's highest-grossing film.
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Throughout the film, "Colonel" Tom Parker narrates "his side of the story" on his deathbed to a [...]
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Whenever Elvis is at the forefront and if Parker is present somewhere in the scene, he (Parker) [...]
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Pictures of the Star Trek (1966) ensemble can be seen in the sequences recreating Elvis: The Co [...]
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Some people stated that Tom Hanks looked more like The Penguin instead of the real "Colonel" To [...]
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Despite the faithful re-creation of some events of Elvis Presley's life, others are partially o [...]
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The film makes out that Elvis's film career was over by the time he decided to do the Elvis: Th [...]
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The film was shot for over a year. Filming began in January 2020 but halted in March 2020 due t [...]
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The Christmas special (Elvis: The Comeback Special (1968)) is filmed in NBC studios. Behind the [...]
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Austin Butler read several biography books about Elvis Presley to prepare for the role. "Elvis [...]
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In an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014), Tom Hanks revealed that it took five hou [...]
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During the dinner scene, there's a picture of Elvis Presley as a teenager on the stand.
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This is the first film released in 2022 that stars Tom Hanks. The second film is Pinocchio (202 [...]
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The film was released the year on what would be the 45th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. [...]
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Austin Butler and Olivia DeJonge height match almost perfectly with Elvis Presley and Priscilla [...]
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As a testament to his long-lasting popularity, in 2018, Elvis Presley was ranked #2, behind Mic [...]
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Shonka Dukureh was born on September 3rd, 1977, 18 days after Elvis Presley's death on August 1 [...]
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Elvis's mother, Gladys Presley, was actually four years older than his father, Vernon Presley. [...]
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Designer Bill Belew created Elvis Presley's famed gold lamé suit and was tasked with coming [...]
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Before getting onto a plane toward the end of the film, Elvis turns to Priscilla and mouths the [...]
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Before and when the film was released, most people who weren't familiar with Austin Butler or h [...]
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Tom Hanks's character in Cast Away (2000) was a big Elvis Presley fan. The film was also partia [...]
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When production moved to Australia, Tom Hanks sent Austin Butler a chrome typewriter. Attached [...]
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Elvis comments, at one point during the Club Handy sequence, that he'd like to record Little Ri [...]
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The film is costume designer Catherine Martin's fifth collaboration with husband and director B [...]
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Despite the film depicting Parker dying alone at a hospital, Parker was with his wife by his si [...]
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During his later years, Elvis Presley would often collaborate with the R&B gospel group The Swe [...]
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The film was in development since 2014. Baz Luhrmann was chosen to direct after some negotiatio [...]
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Austin Butler stated that one of the aspects about Elvis Presley that stood out to him was that [...]
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The film is the tenth film that B&K Enterprises Costume Company had provided attire for. The fi [...]
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Though not shown nor mentioned in the film, sometime in 1975, Elvis Presley met and briefly dat [...]
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While doing press for the movie, Austin Butler still had a bit of the southern accent he used t [...]
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According to director Baz Luhrmann, there's a four-hour cut of the film that exists. It remains [...]
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The film is the second Elvis Presley biographical film that's simply titled, "Elvis". The first [...]
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By the late 2010s, the film was still in pre-production, and a casting call for the main role w [...]
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B&K Enterprises Costume Company made many jumpsuits, attire, and garments for Austin Butler dur [...]
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The film's budget was $85 million.
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In total, while portraying Elvis Presley, Austin Butler wore 90 costumes throughout the film.
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Jack White is featured on the soundtrack with Elvis Presley performing "Power of My Love". Whit [...]
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Tom Hanks shaved his head for his role as "Colonel" Tom Parker.
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This is Baz Luhrmann's first biographical film. Originally, at some point in the 2000s, Luhrman [...]
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Though barely shown or mentioned in the film, Elvis Presley had two serious relationships with [...]
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At the end of the film, there is a strip of images rolling along with the closing credits. Thes [...]
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The soundtrack for the film includes a version of the song, "Fever" called, "Craw-Fever". Some [...]
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rufus Sewell were cast as Presley's parents before the production was shu [...]
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In the carnival scene where "Colonel" Parker is reaching out to touch a young Elvis, whose back [...]
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When Elvis enters his mother's room to comfort her, there is a picture of the real Elvis when h [...]
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In the scene where Tom Parker throws a glass, he curses with the Dutch word "Godverdomme", whic [...]
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The film is costume designer Catherine Martin's second collaboration with fashion designer Miuc [...]
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Austin Butler took tap dancing and swing dancing classes to perfect Elvis' dance moves and phys [...]
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In addition to Austin Butler, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Harry Styles [...]
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This is Baz Luhrmann's first feature film since Il grande Gatsby (2013) nine years previously. [...]
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As shown in the film, Elvis Presley was a frequent patron of the Lansky Brothers clothing store [...]
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The film is not the first time that Tom Hanks portrays the manager of a rock star or rock stars [...]
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It was estimated that over 80,000 people attended Elvis Presley's funeral. Then-President Jimmy [...]
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B&K Enterprises Costume Company made 36 jumpsuits for the film.
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The second highest grossing musical biopic after Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
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Elvis fan, Kurt Russell, makes an uncredited cameo in this movie. During the montage of Elvis P [...]
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The film is estimated to have more than 9,000 costumes. These included the main cast and numero [...]
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The film was nominated for three Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards, including [...]
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Although in the movie it isn't mentioned, when Elvis Presley met Priscilla Presley in 1959, he [...]
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In Forrest Gump (1994), Forrest mentions a time when he helps a visitor to his mother's bed and [...]
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Austin Butler wore six wigs throughout the film during the various stages of Elvis Presley's li [...]
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Although it is never alluded to in the film, Elvis was actually a huge fan of technology and wa [...]
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In one scene, Elvis is shocked to learn of Sharon Tate's murder by members of Charles Manson's [...]
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Though not shown nor mentioned in the film, Elvis Presley had a romantic interest in one of his [...]
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This is director Baz Luhrmann's sixth film.
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Despite its release in Summer 2022, a season that's usually reserved for big blockbusters, the [...]
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Gene Doucette, one of Elvis Presley's original costume designers, assisted B&K Enterprises Cost [...]
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The film is the sixth Elvis Presley-related film that B&K Enterprises Costume Company had provi [...]
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This is the ninth time that Tom Hanks has portrayed a real-life person. The first eight times t [...]
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While shooting a scene during Elvis' Vegas period, Austin Butler accidentally injured himself w [...]
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While the film was still in its early stages of pre-production, for research, director Baz Luhr [...]
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When Elvis is shown performing for the first time in the film, at one point during the performa [...]
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At the end of the film, Parker narrates that what actually killed Elvis was his love for his fa [...]
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The film ended up dethroning Top Gun: Maverick (2022) at the box office. The former film stayed [...]
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The film had a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival after the screening was o [...]
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Elvis's mother, Gladys Presley, died aged 46 in 1958. Although not seen in the film, Vernon Pre [...]
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The scene where Elvis is seen putting a Derringer pistol into his boot during his Las Vegas sho [...]
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Though not shown nor mentioned in the film, after Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley separated [...]
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The film earned over $286 million worldwide.
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Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge, and director Baz Luhrmann attended the 2022 Met Gala with Prisci [...]
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Some Elvis Presley fans complained that the film didn't show Elvis' funny side and that he came [...]
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Nine visual effects companies provided the visual effects for this film. They are Luma Pictures [...]
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For the scene at the end of the film where Elvis performs "Unchained Melody" during one of his [...]
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Behind the scenes, Olivia DeJonge, who portrays Priscilla Presley, watched Shonka Dukureh, who [...]
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Despite B.B. King being nine years older than Elvis Presley, Kelvin Harrison Jr., who portrays [...]
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The film was released the same day as Black Phone (2021). The film won out.
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Even though his hair was dyed dark brown, and he wore dark brown or jet black wigs in some scen [...]
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Lisa Marie Presley was initially nervous about seeing the film. Presley stated that toward the [...]
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Costume designer Catherine Martin collaborated with fashion designer Miuccia Prada on designing [...]
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The real "Colonel" Tom Parker was born on June 26, 1909, in The Netherlands as Andreas "Dries" [...]
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Shonka Dukureh, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton, was featured on the song "Vegas" by Doja Cat. [...]
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When Elvis was asked to change his image by wearing a black tuxedo, B.B. (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) [...]
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Elvis does not eat a single fried peanut butter and banana sandwich throughout the film, even t [...]
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In total, while portraying Priscilla Presley, Olivia DeJonge wore 25 costumes throughout the film.
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