Priscilla Presley Makes First Tournament Look Since Daughter Lisa Marie’s Death

Almost two months after the surprising loss of life of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, on Jan. 12., Priscilla Presley made her first public appearance on Tuesday for a special screening and dialog spherical her new Netflix series Agent Elvis.

Presley, who co-created and voices herself within the grownup appealing comedy, took piece in a Q&A alongside fellow co-creator John Eddie and showrunner Mike Arnold at Netflix’s Tudum Theater. The series, which sees Matthew McConaughey to find close over as the King of Rock and Roll, moreover facets a reveal forged of Kaitlin Olson, Johnny Knoxville, Niecy Nash, Tom Kenny and Don Cheadle. It follows Elvis as he is inducted true into a secret government look program to fight darkish forces threatening The USA.

Eddie acknowledged the demonstrate became impressed by the eminent portray of Elvis with Richard Nixon, the build he offered his companies to be a DEA agent, to boot to speeches he made about dreaming of being a silly book book hero.

“That became why we made it, as in opposition to doing a are residing-action element or something, we particularly need to private appealing,” Eddie defined, and “moreover because, all due admire, Austin Butler did an astonishing job and other folks to find completed. I’ve been a extensive Elvis fan since I became a itsy-bitsy bit child and at the same time as gigantic as any person does it, they’ll by no map make a selection Elvis’ [appearance]. He became such an even searching man, he’s merely crazy, and so we conception per chance thru animation” that similarity would be imaginable.

Presley acknowledged she wished to private the demonstrate as a manner of “introducing Elvis to the formative years currently, wondering why he became so eminent and to ascertain him as a hero.”

“I know that here is a dream advance factual for Elvis because here is no doubt what he wished to private. He wished to be a federal agent, and for me, I’ve continually wished to present Elvis what he wished and by no map no doubt somewhat made it,” she persisted. “He became an even searching human being and an extraordinarily talented human being, and I want teenagers to ascertain who he no doubt became on this because he no doubt became, he wished to be an agent. And now he is.”

Presley moreover defined that McConaughey became the faithful want to play the rock extensive establish because “he’s got a gigantic reveal, a gigantic reveal. He’s got that Southern reveal and deep reveal.” They discussed other actors but saved coming attend to him for his Southern explain, which Presley acknowledged Elvis had “when he would procure attend to Memphis. He’d to find close it all up straight away. Abet here in California, he tried to talk about Californian.”

The demonstrate, which comes from Sony Photos Animation, Sony Photos TV and Decent Brands Group, moreover pulls from real moments of Elvis’ lifestyles, admire his pet chimpanzee Scatter who is featured within the series.

“Scatter did all those issues. Scatter escaped. Scatter went into Bel Air and folk’s windows and afraid them to loss of life. The police [came] in on Scatter the total time because he would procure away,” Presley remembered. “I became there when that took space. We had a neighborhood in Bel Air, and yeah, he escaped a lot. And the neighbors merely wished us to put off him.”

Agent Elvis begins streaming on Netflix March 17.