Julia Roberts, 56, lands the job of a lifetime which she calls a ‘privilege’… and it has to do with Elvis Presley

Julia Roberts said she is thrilled to have landed the job of a lifetime.

The 56-year-old Pretty Woman actress will narrate the audiobook From Here To The Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir.

It will feature the late star’s unheard interviews; Lisa Marie is the daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie was also the mother of Daisy Jones & The Six star Riley Keough.

“I’m so moved,” Oscar winner Roberts said People on wednesday.

Riley, who helped finish the book after her mother’s shocking death in 2023, will also narrate part of the audiobook.

From Here To The Great Unknown is released on October 8.

A look at the book cover featuring Lisa Marie as a child with her father Elvis Presley

“I was so moved by Lisa Marie’s incredible memoir,” Roberts told People.

“It was a great privilege to give voice to her wild and beautiful life and I am so grateful to Riley for trusting me with her mother’s story.”

Keough is also very happy that Roberts is voicing her mother.

“I’m so happy that Julia is participating in this and my mom’s voice gets to be heard,” Riley said.

“I couldn’t think of anyone better suited to share her story with the world.”

The audiobook also includes never-before-heard excerpts from Lisa Marie’s tape recordings.

Lisa Marie died at age 54 from a small bowel obstruction that developed after she had undergone bariatric surgery several years earlier.

The book is about growing up as the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley.

“I’m so touched,” Oscar winner Roberts told People on Wednesday. Julia in March, left, and Lisa Marie in 2013, right

It will feature the late star’s unheard interviews; Lisa Marie is the daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley; Riley to appear in the Oprah special

Lisa Marie was also the mother of Daisy Jones & The Six star Riley Keough. Riley and Priscilla seen in January

“Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued about, and dissected,” Riley told People.

“What she wanted to do with her memoir, and what I hope I’ve accomplished by finishing it for her, is to dig deeper into the idea of ​​the magazine headline about her and reveal the core of who she was.

‘To transform her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, candid, funny, traumatized, joyful, grieving, everything she was in her remarkable life.

“I want to give my mother a voice in a way that she couldn’t when she was alive.”