Sofia Coppola knows a gilded cage when she sees one.

The filmmaker, the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and the director of such varied tales of teenage girlhood as Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides, The Bling Ring, and more, will next take on Priscilla, centering Priscilla Presley in the oft-told story of Elvis. Priscilla met and began dating the musical icon when she was 14 and Elvis was 24, an experience she recounts in her 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday, Coppola remembered thinking the memoir would be “a juicy, glamorous story,” but then “was surprised by how relatable her story was.”

“I know from my family what it’s like to be inside a show business family,” Coppola said. “I know that growing up, people are looking at you in a different way. And also living in a house with my dad, this big personality, a great artist and a lot of our life revolving around that.”

In an Elvis story centered on someone whose life does end up being centered around Elvis, she also saw her mother, “how she was trying to find her way within" her father's life. 

In addition to growing up under the lens of fame and learning to grapple with public image and making your own way, Coppola has a new layer of understanding of the lifestyles of the rich and the famous adolescent girl—after all, she has two of them of her own now. Her daughters are 16 and 12.

“Now I can see the mother’s point of view also,” Coppola said. “And I see all these teen-girl objects in my house that look like set dressing from one of my movies. In my life, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, now I’m the villain character.’ That’s new. I can’t believe that.”

The 16-year-old, Romy Mars, recently made her own headlines, by the way, something Coppola wasn’t totally thrilled about. Romy posted a now-deleted TikTok making vodka sauce “because I’m grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to visit a camp friend.” It’s high art in its own right.

“I got lots of compliments on her filmmaking,” Coppola said. “And comedy. She’s funny. But people discussing my parenting publicly is not what I would’ve hoped for.”

Posting the video was, she said, “the best way for [Romy] to be rebellious.”

“We were raised to be so private, and social media is so the opposite of how I grew up,” Coppola said.

Overall, Priscilla Presley (who is an executive producer on Priscilla), said that she felt she could trust Coppola because of her lived experience.

“I just got who she was and I felt that she could get me,” she said. “I thought, we have different stories, but she could understand this better than any writer because she kind of lived it in her own way.”