“I don’t like fame. I don’t just like the sense of belonging to the general public,” Elizabeth Taylor admits in Elizabeth Taylor: The Misplaced Tapes, a brand new documentary that includes unearthed recordings of the Hollywood legend by journalist Richard Meryman. “The particular person my household know[s] is actual. However the different Elizabeth Taylor, the well-known one, actually has no depth or which means to me. It’s a commodity and it makes cash. One is flesh and blood, and one is cellophane.” Taylor, who skyrocketed to fame as a baby actor and was among the many first movie stars to obtain a $1 million payday for a task, spent a lot of her life within the highlight. It’s not shocking, then, that the late icon thought-about her public picture to be utterly divorced from her non-public persona.
The Misplaced Tapes, which premiered on HBO this month, grants viewers a glimpse into that life by way of Taylor’s candid reflections on all of it—the romances, the tragedies, the opulence, and the scandals. Although her famous person standing meant that even her uncommon non-public moments generally obtained the on-camera remedy, the under choice reveals an intimate take a look at the “actual” Elizabeth Taylor’s time at residence, exterior the limelight.
