And DeJonge,who played Priscilla Presley,has starred in the mini-seriesThe Staircase and is set to feature in American movieThe Trashers,about a mobster who owns an infamous ice hockey team.
But her breakout role inElvis,which has the 24-year-old up for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for best supporting actress in Sydney on Wednesday,almost didn’t happen.
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DeJonge had done what is now standard for actors - self-taping an audition in 2019.
Having heard nothing for three months,she had been wondering who’d won the role when her agent sent a text while she was having dinner in Los Angeles to say she’d been cast.
“We were like,‘wait,what?’,” DeJonge said. “Then there were some scheduling problems with another project I was doing,and I was almost not going to be able to do the film.
“Then there was the pandemic. But it all turned out how it was supposed to.”