![]() ![]() I wondered why the lives of all the celebrities of the American entertainment business looked so similar in their propensity for s*x drugs and scandals. The orgiastic lifestyle is repugnant, to say the least. It does nothing to endear him to generations who know nothing about Halston, or worse,don’t care.Īs I watched Halston’s hedonistic doomed life of cocaine and rough sex(he enjoyed casual s*x and the company of gigolos) come alive in fits and spurts. His arrogant obliviousness is a kind of central theme to the bio-pic.McGregor showers nervous energy on his self obsessed actor. Or maybe Halston played out his whole life as a burlesque of true feelings. The intimate scenes between Halston and Hugo are so absurdly theatrical as to seem like a travesty of true feelings. These include his long-time clothes illustrator and best friend Joe Eula(David Pittu), Tiffany-model Elsa Peretti(Rebecca Dayan), his first love Ed Austin(Sullivan Jones) and then the brutal sadistic love of Halston’s life the Venezuelan self-styled artiste Victor Hugo (Gian Franco Rodriguez) in whom Halston more than meets his match. Halston is such an unlikeable jerk, using and abusing the people close to him. Halston is tragically deprived of a life-force. I wish the rest of the series had more of these sparkling moments.Sadly it’s more drudge that dynamism. In adulthood he made hats for Jacqueline Kennedy and stage outsfits for Liza Minelli, and that’s a sparkling performance by Krysta Rodriguez.Her opening act where she sings and sings about her name being mispronounced-its is Lie-za, not Lee-sa-is worth its weight in gold. He should have stuck to the era of innocence. The gay man(if it’s a designer….) started making hats for his precious mother when he was a child. The life of decadence debauchery and self-abuse that Halston lived hardly justified his evil designs(pun!). Hell, McGregor has even begun to resemble Burton in tone and personality! I have watched his best performances many times over. I decided to invest 4 ½ hours of my life in getting to know about him only because of that brilliant British actor Ewan McGregor who for my money and time is the finest British actor since Richard Burton. Of course I’ve heard of Kelvin Klein and Manish Malhotra ,and I even know one of the two personally(guess which!). I must confess I’ve no interest in the secret and public lives of dress designers. Smith asked, "The last time we spoke, you spoke about your sobriety.Starring Ewan McGregor as Halston,Rebecca Dayan as Elsa Peretti,David Pittu as Joe Eula, Krysta Rodriguez as Liza Minnelli,Bill Pullman as David Mahoney For much of his adult life, the designer was battling different kinds of demons, like addiction, and that's one that Ewan McGregor once faced down himself. "The cat is out the bag!"įor McGregor, playing Halston was another kind of challenge. 'Well, I'd be happy to play him again, you know,' and it was just a way of, like, trying not to be dishonest, but at the same time not telling the truth." I'd be happy to play him one day again.' I'd have to just keep saying … It started looking like I was sort of asking Disney for a job! Like, every interview I was asked that. I'd have to say, 'Well, you know, I don't know. Every interview I ever did for, you know, years, people would say, 'Well, are the rumors true?' And I'd have to sort of, I'd have to lie. "I mean, people have been asking you about this for almost two decades." ![]()
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