Priscilla Star Cailee Spaeny Proves You Should Never Underestimate an Angry Young Woman

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hyper-feminine coming-of-age biopic, , I couldn’t stop jotting down lyrics from GUTS.Though 25-year-old actor Cailee Spaeny has yet to listen to Rodrigo’s new album—she’s been a bit busy with one of the only major press tours occurring amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike—she gets it. “I just love angry woman songs,” Spaeny tells me over Zoom when I share my notes with her. “What sets Sofia apart in her stories is that she gives young women permission to be angry, to fall in love, and know exactly what they want.”She continues, “Even though Priscilla Presley is American royalty and lived this very rarefied life in this heightened universe that nobody really can relate to because she's the only one who's lived a life quite like hers, there are definitely universal feelings throughout the movie that will resonate with a lot of young women.”That’s definitely true, though it’s particularly difficult to comprehend how teenage Priscilla Wagner convinced her parents to let her move across the world to live with a rock star 10 years her senior.

Unlike other works that shy away from the legendary couple’s origin story, Coppola's lens won’t let you ignore just how young Priscilla was when she met 24-year-old in 1951.

At the time, she was 14 years old.But Spaeny warns me not to underestimate the willpower of a headstrong teen girl. One of nine siblings growing up in Missouri, Spaeny dropped out of school at 13 years old before embarking on 25-hour road trips to Los Angeles with her mother in pursuit of a film career. “I think my parents were trying to homeschool me and I just refused to do any of it,” she said. “That was probably why they decided to take me to LA because they're like, ‘we don't know what to do with this.