‘Priscilla’ Actress Cailee Spaeny On Bulgari Marketing campaign, Style Selections – WWD

MILAN — Cailee Spaeny’s glow within the Bulgari perfume promoting marketing campaign will not be Photoshop’s work, that’s for positive.

The rising film star shined along with her pleasant methods, poise and considerate solutions as she met press on the Bulgari resort right here on Thursday to disclose the position she landed for the Roman home. A pristine look and important gold jewellery courtesy of the model (after all) solely amplified her radiance.

The actress, greatest identified for taking part in the main character in Sofia Coppola’s new film “Priscilla,” was aptly tapped by Bulgari to entrance the “Reveal Your Gentle” marketing campaign, which retools the communication of three of its signature Omnia fragrances — Crystalline, Amethyste and Coral — to unveil their redesigned flacon and packaging.

“It’s been nearly a 12 months since I’ve shot the marketing campaign and it was the primary time doing something like that. I used to be clearly very nervous, I didn’t know what to anticipate,” stated Spaeny to WWD, recalling the day on set in Portugal. 

“It was enjoyable as a result of I felt that I obtained to play an prolonged model of me. With every scent [we] inform one thing completely different: so relying on which scent we had been taking part in with on the time there can be type of completely different attitudes and a barely completely different character of myself,” she continued. “It was somewhat inventive performing problem, however I wasn’t actually taking part in any character, it was primarily based off of me. I felt like I type of grew up throughout the shoot.”

Spaeny underscored the facility of scents in triggering recollections, too. “Rising up, my mother has at all times gravitated towards patchouli. She’d at all times have a patchouli oil the entire time, and he or she would at all times burn incense. She’s a little bit of a hippie, so I actually linked with these scents as a toddler and anytime I scent them, they take me proper again to my mother,” she stated.

The actress touched down in Milan throughout vogue week after her very first journey to Venice (to attend the native movie pageant), the place she was introduced with the Coppa Volpi award for greatest actress for her interpretation of Priscilla Presley in Coppola’s movie. 

“Italy’s been good to me,” she stated with a smile. “It was my first every part. It was my first pageant, my first time at Venice — a completely surreal expertise. First, to simply be in that metropolis. There’s not a metropolis fairly like that on this planet. I assumed ‘oh, this may’t be actual. This seems to be like a movie set’,” recalled Spaeny, who introduced her huge sister along with her from Missouri.

“Then to have our movie at Venice Movie Pageant with these teams of artists who’re there and that jury with individuals who I look as much as as creatives and who’re actual titans within the trade.…After which I didn’t even assume that there was an award — I knew there was a Golden Lion [award for best movie] however I didn’t even consider the opposite classes,” she stated, candidly admitting she already flew again to England earlier than getting a name to return to obtain the accolade. “It was an enormous second for me, my profession and my life.”

Based mostly on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” and slated to hit theaters on Oct. 27, the film intends to relate the unseen aspect of Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s relationship, from the lengthy courtship to turbulent marriage, informed from the title position’s standpoint and spotlighting her passage into maturity, her quest for id and independence.

The day of the premiere was as pivotal as profitable the award, stated Spaeny. “I hadn’t seen the movie till Venice, whereas everybody else [in the cast, did]. I used to be so nervous to observe myself on-screen in each body for an hour and 40 minutes, and [thought I couldn’t] do it with Priscilla Presley sitting proper subsequent to me. So I informed them I’m going to go away,” recalled the actress, who was finally satisfied by Coppola to remain. 

Even when it was nicely acquired from the viewers — “I imply, seven-minute standing ovation: that’s a great signal” — Spaeny stated she’s not one to learn opinions on-line, staying away additionally from social media as she doesn’t “need something in my head, affecting me an excessive amount of.” On this case, she cared about solely Presley’s response. “[The premiere] was the primary time she turned to me and stated: ‘It was an ideal efficiency. I relived my life watching you.’ So truthfully [after that] it didn’t matter what anybody stated. Making that movie was for her.”

“It’s a very sophisticated and nuanced story, not simple to inform. However she’s lived such an unimaginable life and so many various lives inside one. I simply needed her to really feel like she was protected in our fingers,” added the actress.

Requested in regards to the greatest challenges in approaching the position, Spaeny identified that “she’s truly very distant from me. I’m a little bit of a tomboy and from a special period,” and to the quick taking pictures course of.

“It was solely 30 days and we shot extremely out-of-order. In a second I’d be 14 years previous, after which later within the day, I’d be pregnant. It was so exhausting to maintain monitor of the type of arc.…However the hair, the make-up, the costume was the actual grounding ingredient for me to maintain me on monitor the place I used to be within the story of her life,” stated Spaeny.

Music was one other anchoring ingredient and supplied for certainly one of her greatest recollections from the set. A giant a part of Coppola’s motion pictures, music is a key facet of the director’s course of, too. 

“When she’s truly making the film, she has music taking part in the entire time on set. Any music request you could have, she’s obtained a playlist made,” revealed Spaeny. “A very vivid reminiscence I’ve is the music ‘Fade Into You’ by Mazzy Star. A stunning music that she determined that was Priscilla’s music. So I’d stroll on the set and I’d be in a brand new costume and hair and make-up…and he or she’d simply play on the music, and it might simply drop you right into a melancholy world. That was actually particular: to see the best way that she used music inside her filmmaking course of and her selecting out a music for me and my character. Each time I hear that music now, it has a particular place in my coronary heart.”

Spaeny’s appreciation for Coppola traces again to her teenage years, as she outlined her as “my dream director.”

“As a 14-year-old lady, I began watching her movies like ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and ‘Someplace’, these type of lonely ladies. And I believe it type of unlocked one thing: as a youngster you don’t actually get allowed to specific this type of darkish aspect of being a younger lady, and he or she actually unlocks that,” she stated. 

Though she auditioned for Coppola a few occasions earlier than, Spaeny landed the “Priscilla” main position additionally with somewhat assist of encouragement from the director’s longtime pal Kirsten Dunst, as revealed by Coppola earlier this month.

Requested about her future dream position, as a substitute, Spaeny stated the she wish to hold that reference to music going. “I’m a musical theater child, so possibly sometime performing some type of musical,” she stated, citing classics resembling “The Wizard of Oz,” “Singin’ within the Rain” and “The Younger Women of Rochefort” amongst her favourite movies.

Spaeny’s style for motion pictures is a harbinger for her model — she favors timeless vogue items for on a regular basis, and revealed she likes to steer clear of fickle traits. On the pink carpet, this strategy results in previous Hollywood-style seems to be, put along with the assistance of her stylist Nicky Yates. 

“She’s been nice to search out the via line within the story we’re telling on the pink carpets,” stated Spaeny, referencing the “Priscilla” press tour. “It’s been a problem for me to search out my silhouette. I’ve obtained a really younger look so I attempt to go in opposition to that with extra subtle silhouettes, additionally bringing in little homages to the ‘60s and to Priscilla,” stated the actress, mentioning how the duo labored on pastel hues or integrating elaborations like bows and crystals. Cue the Miu Miu cady robe with a deep neckline and embroidered with crystal and pearls fringes she wore in Venice.

Whereas she received’t keep in Milan for any vogue present, Spaeny is headed to the Miu Miu one in Paris on Oct. 3. “I’ve been with them a few occasions already, however they at all times placed on an unimaginable present and do one thing enjoyable and modern. So I’m excited to see what they do that season,” she concluded.