“I don’t like fame. I don’t like the belong to the public.” HBO has revealed the trailer for a documentary film about the Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor. This originally premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and recently screened at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. With newly unearthed interviews, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, reveals the complex inner life and vulnerability of the Hollywood actress. She is a woman who defied the era’s expectations, ultimately found peace within herself, and cemented her legacy by turning the tables on her own fame and becoming a fierce activist and advocate for the LGBTQ community. In 1964, at the height of her fame, Elizabeth Taylor sat down with journalist Richard Meryman for a candid, extensive interview. Drawing from all 40 hours of the newly unearthed audio interviews and extraordinary access to personal photos, home movies, interviews, and news footage, illustrated with clips from the iconic roles that mirror her real-life challenges & triumphs, The Lost Tapes documentary provides the most intimate portrait of the actress to date. I’m glad that we get to hear her tell her own story this way. // Continue Reading ›
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