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📽 What We Learned From ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes’ (AARP Article)

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12 Things We Learned From ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes’.

The HBO documentary reveals her lost childhood, scandals, ambition, insecurity and brushes with death.

By Chris Nashawaty, AARP. Published August 02, 2024.

Elizabeth Taylor was arguably Earth’s most famous woman from age 10 until her death in 2011. And yet, throughout her triumphant and tragic, one-of-a-kind life, she was defined by others — Hollywood studios, seven husbands, the insatiable press. Now, in Nanette Burstein’s revelatory HBO Original Documentary, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (debuting Aug. 3 on HBO and Max), the late star finally gets the chance to define herself once and for all.

Culled from more than 40 hours of previously unreleased audio interviews by turns bawdy, vulnerable and defiant, we get to listen in as she candidly discusses what it was like on the other side of the cameras — what it was like to be Elizabeth Taylor. Here are 12 of the most fascinating things we learned from the must-see new film.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/television/info-2024/elizabeth-taylor-the-lost-tapes.html