I love these two, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Dominic West… but… I’m not buying it. Are you?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON?
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I love these two, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Dominic West… but… I’m not buying it. Are you?
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I think to capture the period both need to put on a few pounds. I do like the hair but the big fake plastic pearls in the second shot…………… OMG Elizabeth would turnover in her grave if she saw that … I am just saying .. Love the blog and the posts !
Thank you – and I agree, the pearls are awful!
Bwahahahaha!
No.
I saw a preview of this and, well, it would be hard to find someone less Richard Burtonish than Mr West, that’s not a reflection on his acting just on his unsuitedness to the role. No offence to him but he looks unutterably grotesque made up as the older Dick and not much better as the younger 😉 (they may as well have cast Toby Jones or John Hurt or Idris Elba for *their* likeness to and ability to play Mr Burton!) As for Helena as Elizabeth – she’s gorgeous but she’s not, not, not convincing as La Liz, she doesn’t have the certain *qualities* that made Taylor Taylor. (full disclosure: I find Ms Bonham-Carter more attractive than Ms Taylor – yes, I do! – but Elizabeth had a certain something that H B-H can’t embody)
Still, it has to be better than that Lohan abomination, right? Right?! Boy, I wish they’d leave this kind of material alone -sooo tabloid. It reminds me of a higher class version of terrible things such as the Woody and Mia tv movie. Blech! (The BBC has made a swathe of these “based on fact” muck-raking celebrity biopics recently, in which the only part of performers’ lives they are interested in are the tawdry bits. Well, apart from one about a creepy gameshow host who was *entirely* tawdry!)
You’ll have to write us a review after it’s broadcast! 🙂
I am interested to see it yes. And I have seen the trailer. What bugs me is that they have her beauty mark on the wrong side of her face. Picky Picky I know!
What? Maybe Ms. Bonham-Carter prefers that side to camera. Hmph!
Ah…no.
I can’t think of anybody who could play them…
Nope. Not even close.
As somebody pointed out — it’s GOT to be better than the unmentionable one broadcast here a little while ago 😉
Dearest V
What I’m not buying is how impossibly glamorous HBC is looking these days – well I am buying it, she’s stunning.
As to their suitability to the parts, well, yes, there are some questions hanging… but I’ll wait for the film before passing judgement.
The problem is that they’re made for BBC4 and tend to form the core of a ‘mini-season’ of programming about the subjects including documentaries, examples of their work, extended interviews from the archives… I say unfortunately, obviously this is great for one and the rest of the UK but it means that shown alone, without the context for which they were commissioned, these biopics can look a little odd…. some though have been pretty good in my estimation and far from all have been hatchet jobs…
Yours ever
The Perfumed
She is just beautiful – but what I’m not seeing in these photos is any connection. Maybe they hadn’t had their coffee yet?
Dearest V
I quite agree, she’s not an obvious choice, but then, I wonder, who would be?
I suspect the selection process is probably related to the fact that HBC’s star is so in the ascended at the moment, the only British film star (actor working almost exclusively on the screen) we have now that Emma Thompson has pretty much retired and Ken Branagh’s back on the stage…. sorry The Dandy’s digressing dreadfully.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Casting must have been a nightmare, because of the obvious comparisons – and I can’t think of anybody either!
Reserving most of my judgement. Looking at the trailer, it is possible that Helena will almost ‘be’ Elizabeth but Dominic doesn’t seem to come close to Richard.
You’ll have to let us know what you think. 🙂
Helena B-C looks utterly fabulous…but I can’t quite buy her as Elizabeth Taylor. And I agree with George Kaplan — those large plastic pearls are ghastly.
I think the thing that struck me about all the photo I saw of Ms. Taylor and Mr. Burton was that they looked mesmerized by each other…
no. love both actors – but. just. no.
and yes, the plastic fashion jools HURT.
oh. oh. oh.
*thinks*
*looksintomiddledistance*
gosh.
no.
I love them both, too, but I agree. It is a resounding “no” from me. On the bright side, it has to be better than the Lohan/Bowler debacle from a year ago (if not as side-splittingly funny). 🙂