Film-maker left ‘stunned’ as studios refuse to finance film about Liberace’s love life, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
Hollywood studios refused to finance Steven Soderbergh’s forthcoming HBO biopic of the flamboyant entertainer Liberace (Behind the Candelabra : My Life With Liberace) because it was “too gay”, the Oscar-winning film-maker has revealed.
Despite the presence of two fellow Academy Award-winners, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, in the leading roles, executives repeatedly passed on putting up the movie’s relatively meagre $5m budget.
Titled Behind the Candelabra, Soderbergh’s film centres on the relationship between Liberace and his younger long-term lover Scott Thorson, who met when the latter was just 17. The film will screen on the pay-TV channel HBO in the US following Hollywood’s lack of interest.
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