Kevin Spacey Entertains The King In Latest Elvis & Nixon Trailer

 

Kevin Spacey is no stranger to the Oval Office but for the actor’s latest role, don’t expect him to break character and address the audience directly. Yes, for Liza Johnson’s comedy of juxtaposition Elvis & Nixon, Spacey will be stepping into the shoes of Richard Nixon, who staged a chance meeting with the one and only Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) one fateful morning in December of 1970. Then at the peak of his glittering music career, The King wanted to speak with the most powerful man on the planet in person so that he could be drafted into the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Stranger than fiction, indeed. Of course, Elvis & Nixon‘s White House meeting would go on to capture the imagination of a nation and, in reflecting on the core dynamic between Shannon and Spacey’s powerful leads, Johnson said that “this is a comedy of juxtaposition of the coolest guy on the planet and the Nixon administration, which is working on a very different register. It’s very comic when they come together”.

Also on board for the feature are Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Johnny Knoxville, Sky Ferreira and Tracy Letts. Of course, it’s really the chemistry between Kevin Spacey’s POTUS and Shannon’s boisterous musician that has us cautiously optimistic ahead of the film’s arrival this coming weekend.

Elvis & Nixon opens tomorrow, April 22.