Allowing Elizabeth Taylor´s own voice to narrate her story, accompanied by personal photos, home movies, and clips from her iconic roles that mirror her real life challenges and triumphs while also challenging audiences to reconsider Taylor´s legacy.
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00:00Testing.
00:02Do you have your freaking machine on?
00:07I'm fascinated by the phenomenon of Elizabeth Taylor.
00:12What do you think your image is?
00:16Completely superficial.
00:19Immoral.
00:22Just the person that my family know.
00:25And the other Elizabeth Taylor.
00:27The commodity.
00:31One is flesh and blood.
00:33And one is cellophane.
00:38I was a child actress.
00:40Thrown into the adult world.
00:43But in my own world, I was a terrified little girl.
00:47From an early age, your papa gave me two sides of a sex symbol.
00:51I never thought of myself that way.
00:54I loved the possibility of acting.
00:57I was told I would never become an actress because I was so concerned with being pretty.
01:03I fought against hostilities.
01:05Started to make my own deals.
01:08I was quite the business woman.
01:13I've been married too many times.
01:17I made horrendous mistakes.
01:20And I have paid for them.
01:23I don't like fame.
01:26I don't like belonging to the public.
01:30People have a set image. They want to believe.
01:35And if you try and explain, you lose yourself along the way.
01:45Would you like a drink, then?
01:55I would like a drink.