Elizabeth Taylor’s life story is coming to the small screen. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has a docuseries about the silver screen titan in development, Deadline confirms. The series is sanctioned and in partnership with House of Taylor.
Aimed to offer “the definitive look at the iconic Elizabeth Taylor as one of the originators of our contemporary concept of celebrity, as a trailblazer for women working in Hollywood, and for the way she used her elevated status to forge frontiers in her activism and charitable work,” the docuseries will also “examine Taylor’s role in the lives of her family and friends, in addition to her roles onscreen.”
Taylor’s legendary onscreen roles include her Oscar-winning performances in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “BUtterfield 8.” “Cleopatra,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “Suddenly, Last Summer” are among her other credits.
“I found quite early on that I couldn’t act as a puppet — there would be something pulling my strings too hard — and that I did my best work by being guided, not by being forced,” Taylor said of her career. “And I suppose that really is just the child in me — wanting to be allowed to grow and develop at my instinctual sort of pace.”
Noted for her activism and philanthropy, Taylor co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991.
