# Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573 "2005-05-12T16:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/1 "2005-05-12T16:40:27Z")
Did anybody else see [this miniseries?](http://imdb.com/title/tt0437714/) I didn’t watch it all, but I had a major problem buying JRM as _the King_- he looked like he was going to a costume party as Elvis and gave a passable-for-Junior-College Presley accent, but I was amazed he was the best they could come up with. OTOH, I thought that Randy Quaid’s Colonel Tom Parker was the best work he’s done in many years (particularly the way he merged the accent of West Virginia “good ol’ boy” barker with the Dutch accent of Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk [Parker’s birth-name]). Their scenes together were far more dramatic and tense and the relationship far more complex than his scenes with his mother, Priscilla or anybody else. (It posed but didn’t answer the question of “Was Col. Tom the best or worst thing that happened to Elvis?”) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/2 "2005-05-12T16:46:32Z")
I thought you meant Johnathan Rhys-Davies… boy, that’s an image that’s gonna be hard to get rid of… ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/3 "2005-05-12T16:49:32Z")
I thought this wasn’t on until this weekend? Shite!!! My Dad will kill me, he wanted me to record it and send it to him in Dublin. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/4 "2005-05-12T16:49:51Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I thought you meant Johnathan Rhys-Davies… boy, that’s an image that’s gonna be hard to get rid of… I think he’ll play him in the sequel (the “fat in the 70s dead on a toilet” years). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/5 "2005-05-12T16:51:04Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > I thought this wasn’t on until this weekend? > > Shite!!! > > My Dad will kill me, he wanted me to record it and send it to him in Dublin. There’s an _Elvis by the Presleys_ special on this weekend (Priscilla, Lisa Marie, footage of Vernon and Minnie and Gladys et al). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/6 "2005-05-12T17:00:10Z")
“Indy… why do my hips move?” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/7 "2005-05-12T18:15:48Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > I thought this wasn’t on until this weekend? > > Shite!!! > > My Dad will kill me, he wanted me to record it and send it to him in Dublin. I have it on DVR and might (not sure) burn it to DVD for future viewing as I don’t have time to see it in the next few weeks. I will probably put the entire 4 hours on one disc. If I do, after I watch it I can send you the DVD+R copy, if that will work for him over there. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-rhys-meyers-as-elvis/303573/8 "2005-05-12T23:58:29Z")
“Ah always knew you’d turn on me, you ungrateful Hillbillah!” Oh yeah, Randy Quaid rocked as Col. Tom Parker! But I also thought that JRM did a great job as Elvis. Kurt Russell will always be my favorite Elvis, though. 🙂 It felt like they just barely skimmed the surface, plus they ended it at the 1968 “comeback” special - completely skipping the last nine years of Elvis’ life!!! Still enjoyed it overall - great performance by Quaid and very good by JRM.