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Consider the Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie of their day we're talking about Liz Taylor Richard Burton.

They're firing romance with the topic of every tabloid -- quickly became Tinseltown legend now it's the topic of a new lifetime movie titled.

Liz and Dick featuring -- in line.

-- list in the Vatican has made the announcement about.

The Vatican.

Yeah.

Well what -- you you're ready -- basically.

And it changes in the very institutions finance.

Joining us now actor grant bowler who plays Richard Burton to Lindsay Lohan is Elizabeth Taylor thanks for joining us I gotta say right of the -- look great you look if you look like -- -- back in the day.

I.

I'm very gratefully -- yeah he was a very handsome -- my cup most of them into.

-- what was it like taking on its iconic girl.

-- quite frankly.

He was an idol of mine from when I was a kid so.

I've never expected the opportunity to come out and went into the kind of I just mentally.

But immediately was daunting his voice of -- -- you had to go beyond the strategy get this could be getting to -- and -- but how did you go beyond the script to find out who we really was.

An enormous luckily when somebody's that China's -- is an enormous amount about -- archival material and particularly with -- -- I think.

Probably the best recorded -- a little time so I looked at a lot of material on him being interviewed and him in his private life.

Problem with playing an actor is directing a lot of the time.

That's you gotta try that and -- got a context of women on like we have nothing like this way we.

I -- -- -- got very curious and Danica got askew.

Lindsay Lohan she's you know she's been known to be tough to work with any problems.

Look I think you people imagine that when you making movies it's kind of operates in a very Linear fashion it doesn't you know say everybody comes at it from there on perspective there -- in.

Some ways people work crazies.

That Iowa and -- -- -- yeah gorgeous.

That was a very -- yeah.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Is brits coming from an audience actually kind of creates an image people and then did that -- -- let me get -- from Atlanta.

Anyone who saw her be right again no she's a very good actress no I do think she's very good actress parents caveat -- -- of which I -- -- -- that.

Bill which -- she's a very good actress real quick describe the relationship why was -- break up together they can't stay up what what was -- -- figured out.

I think I have for -- and I think I really honestly believe that two people.

Who probably -- had been -- lives without each other I think he would have had a lot more success it took some terrible movies to buy diamonds.

And you know as far as she's concerned she was kind of prime to a massive amount of access and he fed into it.

But I think that kind of -- -- complemented it each other in a way that they would have never found outside that couple.

They broke up they came together they -- -- -- -- to get them married to each other twice.

And you know he writes are there on the last day of his life before it passed away.

And memorabilia of his was by the bedside when she -- it was a lifelong love affair.

Can -- it all play out Sunday November 25.

9 PM eastern on my time and it's great to meet you grant it's lovely to think about it because citadel shield my right -- -- Yeah because that is still are getting.

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