The 1994 live-action film The Flintstones introduced an A-list solid to the city of Bedrock, from leads John Goodman and Rick Moranis to celebs with supporting roles, like Halle Berry, Jay Leno and even Elizabeth Taylor.
Taylor, nevertheless, had some strict calls for with the intention to seem within the movie.
Kyle MacLachlan, who performed Cliff Vandercave, recalled taking pictures the film on an episode of the “Dinner’s on Me With Jesse Tyler Ferguson” podcast. MacLachlan, 65, mentioned the late actress demanded a present day-after-day she was on set.
“The solid was loopy. [Producer Bruce Cohen] bought Elizabeth Taylor to do this film. It was superb,” he mentioned. “She needed to have a present day-after-day.”
Although MacLachlan tried to proceed talking, Ferguson interrupted him, seemingly astonished by the revelation.
“Wait, wait, wait, cease,” he mentioned. “She needed to have a present?”
“And he or she needed to have, within the dressing room trailers, every part was inexperienced, she needed to have greenery round her,” MacLachlan continued.
MacLachlan mentioned that he acquired this info secondhand, however earlier interviews with Cohen appear to substantiate it.
“[Cohen] in all probability advised me and mentioned, ‘Don’t ever inform anyone that.’ Too late. It’s too late,” he joked.
Cohen recalled shortly after Taylor’s loss of life in 2011 how he wished to make the expertise “particular” for her.
“I’d really been to her home for a wardrobe becoming two weeks earlier than,” he recalled. “She pulled me in very shut and whispered into my ear, ‘Darling, that I like presents on the primary day of pictures.’ I mentioned, ‘Sure, I’ve heard of this custom.’ After which she whispered, ‘I like Cartier, darling.’”
Fortunately, Cohen had the buy-in from Steven Spielberg to make it occur.
“We didn’t have an Elizabeth Taylor reward allotment within the price range, so I went to Mr. Spielberg, who was the chief producer, and I mentioned, ‘Steven, I would like you to write down me a private examine so I can go purchasing for Elizabeth Taylor,’” he added. “He beloved that concept and understood why we couldn’t put it within the price range.”
The Flintstones was the ultimate film that Taylor made earlier than she died, although she took a number of TV roles within the late ’90s and early 2000s. She used her function within the movie as Pearl Slaghoople to lift $330,000 for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Basis. Taylor was a number one champion for HIV/AIDS analysis, utilizing her platform to unfold consciousness throughout the Eighties and into the ’90s.
Taylor died on the age of 79 from congestive coronary heart failure.