Lindsay Lohan takes the lead in the upcoming Lifetime movie, Liz & Dick, set to air in the US in just over a month’s time.
We saw a captivating Lohan grace the poster last month, and now a new featurette has debuted online, giving us a look behind the scenes, in which the actress talks a little about the similarities between Elizabeth Hurley and herself.
“On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood’s most beautiful star, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, fell into the arms of one of the world’s greatest actors, RICHARD BURTON – and she didn’t leave.
Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was captured in a series of films, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again – only to divorce again – but remain in each other’s hearts.
Indeed the last letter Richard Burton wrote, hours before his death, was to Liz. And it stayed next to her bed for the rest of her life. The Elizabeth Taylor – Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.”
Lohan takes the lead opposite Grant Bowler, playing Richard Burton (Atlas Shrugged: Part I), with Lloyd Kramer (The Five People You Meet in Heaven) directing from a script by Christopher Monger (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain).
Liz & Dick is set to air on Lifetime in the US on 3rd November. No word yet on how or if it will be coming to the UK, but hopefully we’ll see a DVD/Blu-ray release at least, because I think this could well be the start of a resurgence in Lohan’s career.
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