Elizabeth Taylor’s diamond was owned by ex-wife of a Nazi
One of actress Elizabeth Taylor's diamonds was owned by the ex-wife of former Nazi war criminal Alfred Krupp.
Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz has been roped in to star as Elizabeth Taylor in the legend’s biopic titled in A Special Relationship.
The film will explore Taylor’s journey from actress to activist and will be told through the lens of Taylor’s friendship with her assistant Roger Wall, reported Variety.
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Based on the screenplay written by Academy Award-winner Simon Beaufoy, the upcoming production will be helmed by the female directing duo Bert & Bertie.
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Elizabeth Taylor won Oscars for iconic films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8.
She was also nominated a total of five times for the prestigious awards.
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.
Weisz won a best-supporting actress Oscar for her performance in A Constant Gardener and was nominated in the same category earlier this year for The Favourite.
Earlier, Helena Bonham Carter played Taylor in 2014’s Burton and Taylor, while Lindsay Lohan took on the role in Lifetime’s Liz & Dick in 2012.
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