New three-part series explores the life and career of Elizabeth Taylor, featuring privileged access to those who knew her best
Kim Kardashian, Sharon Stone, Dame Joan Collins and contributors reflect on the new series and the legacy of Elizabeth Taylor
With access to never-before-heard audio tapes, interviews and unseen TV footage of Elizabeth herself.Kim Kardashian She was the last person to interview Elizabeth - for a profile in Harper’s Bazaar in 2011 - when the pair swapped stories about falling in and out of love under the press glare, their shared love for jewellery and the importance of family.
I've always looked to her to motivate me. It doesn't matter what’s acceptable to other people if you believe in it and that’s what you want to fight for. And you fight for those people who don't have voices, to be their voice. Sharon rose to international recognition in the 1990s with her role in the film Basic Instinct. Her performance catapulted her to sex symbol status, and she has spoken publicly about the typecasting she faced as a result.
Elizabeth and I were both under such heavy death threats in the beginning that the only way through it was this real kind of - we were like two warriors. I don't know how to put it differently.When it happened for me I was 32 years old, I was a grown woman who had travelled all over the world. I’d been a model and lived in all kinds of different circumstances, at all kinds of different levels of success and failure.
The fans enabled her to have that power. And the press enabled her to have that power. Because she did her job. You know, she went and she did the press and she talked to the fans and she did her job. From the age of 11. She earned her paycheck.She wasn't afraid of her own power. On Butterfield 8 she turns around in a white slip and you just want to look - you're impaled by her gravitas, the power of her, in the character.
It wasn't going to be Kirk Douglas, right? It wasn't going to be Spartacus. It cost a fortune to make that movie. They had to have a woman who they knew had the box-office power. By being ‘Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’ they had lost a completely different life. And by losing that other life, they were losing each other. And I think that's exactly what was happening in the film.
No matter how much it’s a normal part of your existence, there's always a part of you that just isn't that public thing. That's just regular you.Dame Joan Collins A contemporary of Elizabeth Taylor, the two young women met on the studio lot, crossed paths frequently throughout their careers and developed a friendship which would last many decades.
When I got my fourth divorce, Elizabeth sent me a present. I can't remember what it was, it was something silver, a frame or something with a little note saying, “I'm still ahead by three!”She got married at 18 because she wanted to get away from home, which is why I got married at 18. And well, because, you know, the different laws and morals - if you were involved with a man, you know, intimately, you had to marry him. That was the way it was.
Paris Jackson is a model, actress, singer and activist. Her father, Michael Jackson, was a close friend of Elizabeth Taylor, and chose Elizabeth to be Paris’ godmother when she was born. Elizabeth continues to serve as an inspiration for Paris in her activism, as she carries forward her godmother’s “greatest wish” to end HIV/AIDS globally.Chris on Elizabeth: “Chris Wilding is Elizabeth’s second son with second husband Michael Wilding. This is the first time he has spoken about his mother on camera.
Naomi on Elizabeth: “My grandmother and I, we used to argue about feminism. She thought that feminism meant like anti-feminine, but I think she was actually the perfect example of somebody who could embrace everything that it meant to be a woman and find power in it.” Naomi is passionate about continuing her grandmother’s work in the fight against HIV/AIDS as an ambassador of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.Aileen Getty She’s the OG godmother of agency, of power, of being who you want to be when you want to be it.”
Movie star and TV actor George Hamilton first met Elizabeth Taylor when they were teenagers under contract at the same studio in Hollywood. They formed a lifelong friendship, eventually dating for a year in the mid-80s. Dr Fauci on Elizabeth: “Ronald Reagan still had not uttered the word AIDS to call attention to HIV and it was clear that Elizabeth was getting a little bit annoyed. And then the word got out that one day she just said, ‘Okay Ronald, enough is enough. You’ve got to get out there and talk about it’.”
Elizabeth tirelessly lobbied ‘Ronnie’ to give his first public speech on AIDS, and Dr. Fauci credits her in being instrumental in shifting the government’s slow response to the crisis - a big deal, he says, for those on the frontline of the epidemic, and a move that undoubtedly saved lives.Todd on Elizabeth: “
The illicit relationship would, as Todd explains in the series, result in unprecedented public outrage and an opportunity for the studio to exploit.Margaret on Elizabeth: “If you were under contract, publicity men were assigned to you - and any bad scandals were not allowed at MGM. For somebody like Elizabeth dating was very difficult.”
Bill on Elizabeth: “She made a lot of calls. Really, really famous people wouldn’t get involved - and Elizabeth would get so mad. She would get so mad that people would say no to her.” Sally on Elizabeth: “Her life was bigger than any film. More controversial. More drama, more love, more passion.” A young set photographer on the film The Comedians, Gianni was invited by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton to join their entourage and “little by little became part of the family”.
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