Sky Ferreira has been enlisted for the forthcoming Kevin Spacey film Elvis and Nixon.
Starring Spacey as Nixon and Michael Shannon as Elvis, the film is a recreation of the meeting at the White House between the rock’n’roll icon and then-president on 21 December 1970.
As previously reported, the screenplay riffs on the bizarre real-life event which took place after Nixon received a six-page letter from Elvis which found him asking to be made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” in the bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs. At the subsequent meeting in Washington DC, Elvis brought along family photos and a Colt 45 pistol as a personal gift to Nixon.
Ferreira is said to be playing the love interest of Jerry Schilling, a friend of Elvis who joined him on his trip to meet Nixon. She marked the news by posting an image of the two public figures with the comment, “Feeling #BLESSED to be apart of this.”
Aside from her new acting venture, the singer has started work on her next album, the follow up to Night Time, My Time, an album temporarily shrouded in controversy following the arrest of Ferreira and boyfriend Zachary Cole Smith, of shoegaze band Diiv.
While this is her first major role, the singer has appeared in a number of films, such as 2008’s A Cross the Universe, 2010’s Putty Hill, 2011’s The Wrong Ferarri, 2013’s IRL and The Green Inferno.
The rest of the Elvis and Nixon cast reportedly includes Colin Hanks, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville and Tracy Letts.
