Before Priscilla, Cailee Spaeny revealed that her first collaboration with Sofia Coppola was an ultimately scrapped version of The Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid by Sofia Coppola
"My very first callback was through Sofia," the Alien: Romulus star told Empire . "It was for [Coppola's] The Little Mermaid , [which] didn't end up getting made. I sent in this weird self-tape, where there's a mermaid playing with no dialogue."
In true Coppola style, Spaeny said it was “very strange and avant-garde.”
In 2017, Spaeny and Coppola's paths crossed again, when the actress auditioned for The Beguiled, a costume drama starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell and Elle Fanning.
