LAS VEGAS — Sir Elton John gave actor Taron Egerton some unlikely advice for portraying him in “Rocketman”: Don’t do an impression. It was a freeing, if unusual, bit of direction for a project about himself that John had been trying to make for seven years. It’s an unconventional biopic for an unconventional rock star and John, 72, certainly wasn’t going to get in the way of that. As Fletcher says, John is telling his story from memory, and he’s a “slightly unreliable narrator.” So the costumes aren’t carbon copies. There was a time when Elton John had no one to go to the cinema with.”It’ll be a daunting day, he expects, when John finally sees the final cut, but he and Fletcher are eager for audiences to see it.

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 15:00 UTC