Kyle MacLachlan: Elizabeth Taylor requires daily gift on Flintstones
Kyle MacLachlan, Elizabeth Taylor
Sam Levi;SGranitz/WireImage(2)/Getty Images(2)The 1994 live-action film The flints brought an A-list cast to the town of Bedrock, of leads John Goedeman And Rik Moranis to celebrities with supporting roles, such as Halle Berry, Jay Leno even Elizabeth Taylor.
However, Taylor had some strict requirements to appear in the film.
Kyle MacLachlanwho played Cliff Vandercave, recalled shooting the film on an episode of “Dinner’s on Me With.” Jesse Tyler Fergusonpodcast. MacLachlan, 65, said the late actress demanded a gift every day she was on set.
“The cast was crazy. [Producer Bruce Cohen] had Elizabeth Taylor make that movie. It was great,” he said. “She had to have a present every day.”
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Although MacLachlan attempted to continue speaking, Ferguson interrupted him, seemingly surprised by the revelation.
John Goodman crosses his arms as Elizabeth Perkins frowns at Elizabeth Taylor in a scene from the film ‘The Flintstones’, 1994.
Universal/Getty Images“Wait, wait, wait, stop,” he said. “Did she have to have a gift?”
“And she had to have everything green in the dressing room vans, she had to have green around her,” MacLachlan continued.
MacLachlan said he received this information secondhand, but previous interviews with Cohen seem to confirm this.
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“[Cohen] probably told me and said, “Don’t ever tell anyone that.” Too late. It’s too late,” he joked.
Cohen recalled shortly after Taylor’s death in 2011 how he wanted to make the experience “special” for her.
“I had been to her house two weeks earlier for a wardrobe fitting,” he recalled. “She pulled me really close and whispered in my ear, ‘Honey, you know I love gifts on the first day of photography.’ I said, ‘Yes, I have heard of this tradition.’ And then she whispered, “I like Cartier, honey.”
Fortunately, Cohen had the buy-in Steven Spielberg to make it happen.
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“We didn’t have an Elizabeth Taylor gift allocated in the budget, so I went to Mr. Spielberg, the executive producer, and I said, ‘Steven, I want you to write me a personal check so I can go shopping. for Elizabeth Taylor,” he added. “He loved that idea and understood why we couldn’t put it in the budget.”
The flints was the last film Taylor made before she died, although she took on several TV roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She used her role in the film as Pearl Slaghoople to raise $330,000 for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. Taylor was a leading champion of HIV/AIDS research and used her platform to raise awareness in the 1980s and 1990s.
Taylor died at the age of 79 from congestive heart failure.