By now, Lana Del Rey’s enjoy for Priscilla Presley is properly-recognized. The singer’s model closely resembles Presley’s, and Del Rey has even sung about Elvis generally in her tunes. The comparison has developed so sturdy that Del Rey lovers experienced by now appear to the summary that the singer would be included in the 2023 biopic Priscilla in some way. Sadly, that did not conclude up occurring, but director Sofia Coppola did ensure that there were being strategies for Del Rey to be aspect of the film.

Coppola admitted to E! that she read the fan outcry for Del Rey to be in Priscilla as soon as the film was announced. “I’m studying that persons truly join Lana Del Rey and Priscilla and I didn’t understand that,” Coppola mentioned. “I bought a great deal of requests with, ‘How is she gonna be a section of the film?’”

The reply? An original song in the movie’s soundtrack. At least, that is what Coppola was dreaming of. However, the director uncovered that plans for the Del Rey track didn’t come collectively in the close. “We had been hoping she could do a song for it, but it did not do the job out with the timing,” Coppola mentioned.

She also invited Del Rey to the Priscilla premiere, but the singer could not make the celebration.

Coppola’s revelation follows years’ well worth of speculation that Del Rey would sometime engage in Priscilla Presley. Back when Baz Luhrman’s Elvis was first introduced in 2019, all the casting rumors were being about Del Rey perhaps playing the late rock star’s spouse. Presley even gave her blessing for Del Rey to perform her at the time. But the role wound up going to Olivia DeJonge as an alternative.

The motive for the intensive affiliation in between the two ladies has to do with Del Rey’s styling and lyrics in the course of her career. The singer’s signature ‘60s bouffant hairstyle was famously popularized by Presley, as perfectly as her exaggerated, darkish mascara.

Del Rey also regularly invokes Elvis in her tunes. Her 2012 launch “Body Electric” contains the lyrics “Elvis is my daddy,” and she even has a whole song named “Elvis” that she launched for the 2018 biopic The King. Lovers also think she’s produced subtler allusions to Elvis in a variety of projects, like such as an Elvis impersonator in her Tropico brief movie and referencing Elvis’ “Blue Suede Shoes” lyrics in her track “Million Dollar Man.”