An outsize determine each in life and within the years since her loss of life in 2011, at age 79, Taylor invited solely the uncommon few behind her glamorous facade. “The girl I knew was not Elizabeth Taylor, the film star; she was merely a beautiful, enjoyable, foolish, and caring grandmother,” says Quinn Tivey, one in all Taylor’s grandsons and a co-trustee of her property, who served as an govt producer on the movie. “I keep in mind watching films along with her in mattress, chatting about relationship recommendation, and simply hanging out with a really cool particular person.” Tivey, the son of Liza Todd, Taylor’s daughter along with her third husband, Mike Todd, seen the misplaced conversations as a key to the girl behind the legend. “I see the ways in which she protected the distinction between Elizabeth Taylor, the model identify, and Elizabeth Taylor, the particular person, and she or he talks about this within the documentary to nice impact,” he says.
Taylor, whose tumultuous private life included being married eight occasions—twice to Richard Burton—and dropping one husband, the aforementioned Todd, in a tragic airplane crash, was a supply of tabloid fodder for a lot of her life. The place some wilted within the face of a lot public scrutiny, nonetheless, Taylor soldiered bravely on. “She was true to herself, she was daring, she was brave, and she or he had been by way of such highs and lows, dwelling such a whole and complicated life,” Tivey says.
