Elvis Presley, has spoken about the “emotional experience” of watching Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis at Cannes Film Festival.“It’s very intense to watch when it’s your family,” the actor/director told Variety. “The first movie I ever watched in the theater and said I wanted to make movies was ( Luhrmann’s) Moulin Rouge when I was 12.
It was a real honour to know Baz was doing this movie. Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, for the age I was at the time, were really powerful.
It wasn’t like I distrusted Baz in any way, but you’re protective over your family.”Keough went on to say that she watched the biopic with her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, and mother, Lisa Marie Presley and it made her cry.“In the first five minutes, I could feel how much work Baz and Austin (Butler, who plays Presley) put into trying to get it right.
That made me emotional immediately,” Keough said. “I started crying five minutes in and didn’t stop. There’s a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started around then for our family.
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