Rachel Weisz Will Star as Elizabeth Taylor in The Upcoming Film A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Rachel Weisz is set to play legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming movie from See-Saw Films called A Special Relationship. The film will explore Taylor’s journey from actress to activist.
According to Variety, the story will be told through the “lens of Taylor’s friendship with her assistant Roger Wall. The script for the film was written by Academy Award-winner Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and it will be helmed by the female directing duo Bert & Bertie (Troop Zero).
Taylor was nominated for a total of five Oscars over the course of her career and she won two for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8. “Though famous for her glamorous lifestyle and multiple marriages, she also took a crusading role in the fight against AIDS, which stemmed from her hiring of Walls, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the homophobic Deep South, in the mid-1980s.”
Producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech) had this to say in a statement:
“Audiences are clearly fascinated by the private lives of iconic Hollywood stars. There is no one more iconic than Elizabeth Taylor, and Simon Beaufoy has written a role that shines a light on Elizabeth’s humor and humanity, which will be beautifully brought to life through the extraordinary talents of Rachel Weisz.”
Weisz is an incredibly talented actress. I enjoy the films that she makes and I’m sure that she’ll be great in the role of Elizabeth Taylor.