As you mentioned, you did so much work looking at archives, looking at what has been worn. I’m wondering about how that collaboration between you and Sofia [Coppola] worked? Are there parts of the stories that had to be tweaked to show some of those moments? Or is it that the big plot points coincide with some of these iconic fashion moments organically?
They are a big part of the story, I would say, and were never added in to show them.
I feel like when he [Elvis Presley] leaves Germany in our story, it’s the very first time she’s seeing him as a public figure.
I mean, obviously, she knows he’s a public figure, but their relationship up until that point is very intimate.
Then she waves goodbye, and it’s like, now all of a sudden, he belongs to the world again. That, I think, was a very important story part.
Obviously, the wedding is important. The baby is important.