Jacob Elordi Ate a Pound of Bacon Every Day to Play Elvis Presley in ‘Priscilla’: ‘I Was the Biggest I’ve Ever Been’

Can someone say method acting?

In a recent roundtable interview with Entertainment Weekly alongside “Priscilla” co-star Cailee Spaeny and director Sofia Coppola, Jacob Elordi revealed that he ate a pound of bacon a day to play Elvis Presley.

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“You ate a lot of bacon,” Coppola said to Elordi. She then explained, “Priscilla [Presley] told us that Elvis liked really burnt bacon.”

“I averaged, like, a pound of bacon a day,” Elordi said. “It’s not that noticeable because I’m quite long, but I was the biggest I’ve ever been.”

Spaeny then brought up the popular story of the “Fool’s Gold” loaf: the massive 8,000-calorie sandwich comprised of a pound of bacon, a loaf of sourdough bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly that Presley first discovered at the Colorado Mine Company restaurant in Denver. As the story goes, the King of Rock and Roll loved this sandwich so much that, when he was at home in Graceland, he decided to satisfy his craving for the “Fool’s Gold” loaf by flying to Denver on a private jet with some of his friends. Upon arrival, the owners of the Colorado Mine Company greeted them with a pile of the sandwiches. Presley enjoyed them without ever leaving the airplane hangar.

“I thought he took, like, a flight to go get them,” Spaeny said, to which Coppola replied, “Priscilla told me that because they were so poor, that they would just live off peanut butter and banana sandwiches. So when he was more successful, like, it reminded him of being a kid.”

“But we have to ask her how to really make them because she can tell us how to do it,” Coppola added.

“It’s a secret recipe,” joked Spaeny.

During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” Elordi said that before taking on the role of Elvis in Coppola’s film, the most he knew about the King of Rock and Roll was from Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch.”

“Priscilla,” which follows the tumultuous relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, is now in theaters.

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